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Recommend 0 November 17, 2009 2:14 AM Nancy and Darrell Wynn of Jacksonville walk laps around the JHS Bowl while a steady rainfall drenched the area Monday.

Sen. Deanna Demuzio said Thursday that Illinois' economy might make more cuts in state funding a necessity.

Fire destroyed a Jacksonville mobile home Thursday and resulted in one person being sent to the hospital for smoke inhalation.

LJ Index of Public Library Service 2009, Round 2: Number of public libraries scored by the LJ Index increases by 153 - America's Star Libraries - top libraries - best libraries By Keith Curry Lance & Ray Lyons -- Library Journal, 11/15/2009 While this latest round of the LJ Index only gives five, four, or three stars to the top 258 libraries, 153 ...

This fall's wet weather has created more than a harvesting headache for farmers.

It has undergone a number of name changes since first becoming a national holiday in 1938, but the meaning behind Veterans Day has remained steady.

Children plugged in strands of multicolored Christmas lights hanging from an evergreen tree Thursday evening, signaling the start of The Salvation Army's "Season of Hope" fundraising campaign.

The Internal Revenue Service is on the lookout for 23 Jacksonville-area residents.

It is estimated that more than 40,000 pets die of smoke inhalation each year in house fires.

Illinois College student Samuel Willard was awakened by a pounding on the door of his home on a winter's night in 1843.

It appears that the gift of masks specially designed for animals came to the Jacksonville Fire Department just in time.

The Festival of Trees and Wreaths will feature more than 25 designer trees and 43 wreaths, plus several swags and centerpieces this year, organizers said.

Trick-or-treaters will be allowed to go door to door begging for candy both Friday and Saturday nights in Jacksonville, South Jacksonville and Pittsfield.

Just in time for Halloween, South Jacksonville author Vince Churchill has written something he promises will frighten just about anyone.

Two to three inches of rain over the past two days closed highways and caused flood warnings to be issued for some Illinois River towns.

For, um, many Journal-Courier readers, like, the word "whatever" is the most annoying one around.

No one was injured when John S. Westa s .380-caliber Keltec pistol discharged at 7:45 p.m. Saturday in Room 205 of the hotel at 2650 Planet, said Salina Deputy Police Chief Carson Mansfield.

Who: Elaine Johnson Kent, formerly of Kansas CityAge: 75When and how she died: Sept.

A Jacksonville motel is being accused of failing to pay taxes on its visitors, costing the city more than $12,500. A lawsuit filed Wednesday in Morgan County Circuit Court contends Turf Investors, which owns Country Hearth Inn at 1709 W. Morton Ave., failed to pay taxes from December to August.

Let me preface this story from Harmony France with a great Actor Horror Story of my own when I was in college, acting at MacMurray College in Jacksonville, IL.