Murphysboro News

SPRINGFIELD – Screaming, swearing and referencing the Bible, a red-faced Illinois Rep.

Not many outside of Murphysboro, Illinois have heard of their State Representative Mike Bost until Tuesday afternoon, who launched a major tirade in the Illinois House of Representatives over his chamber's efforts at pension reform.

Plant and Service Operations will have its hands full this summer, as it takes on 20 new projects across campus.

Three top pitmasters were guest on Good Morning America to share their Memorial Day rib barbecuing secrets.

The Murphysboro Fire Department says the city has recently experienced a rash of small, but suspicious fires in the same neighborhood.

O'FALLON, IL - Following the recent issuance of pink slips to workers at Department of Corrections facilities in Southern Illinois, 12th Congressional District Candidate Jason Plummer calls for Illinois' career politicians and bureaucrats to quit playing political games with the Southern Illinois workforce.

A Jackson County man is in a St. Louis hospital after a traffic accident involving a car and a motorcycle.

MURPHYSBORO, Ill. -- A southern Illinois man faces up to 60 years in prison after pleading guilty in a 2009 shooting death involving a gun stolen from Carbondale's police chief.

Despite a drop in crime and the need to close a multibillion-dollar hole in the state budget, Illinois politics again threaten to derail plans to cut spending on prisons.

The Southtern spotlighted Jackson County's GOP Chairman Gloria Campos this week.

A Jackson county man was killed Sunday evening in a car crash near Gorham. The wreck happened just before 9:00 p.m. on Neunert road.

Pauline Cagle Presley, 87, talks about her book "Secrets and White Lies" at her home in Murphysboro.

James Ricketts, left, sits with his family Tuesday outside his home in Murphysboro.

Crews responded to an early morning house fire in Jackson County Friday. Firefighters were called to a home on Old Highway 13 southeast of Murphysboro just after 4 a.m. Investigators say it appears nobody was living in the house.