HERRIN - The Herrin High School girls bowling team kept their unbeaten season intact by defeating Carbondale, 2,780-1,738, while the boys kept up with the girls by also beating Carbondale, 2,906-2,350, in a dual match held at Herrin Bowl.
MARION - The fate of the old Marion Memorial Hospital building is once again in limbo, although judging from discussion at Monday's Marion City Council meeting, that fate will soon be sealed.
Often referred to as 'Nature's Little Secrets', visitors to the British Virgin Islands will not be hard pressed to find out why. Abounding in natural beauty, the 36 islands making up the Caribbean archipelago (16 of which are uninhabited) have kept the affects of tourism at bay and offer unblemished beaches, numerous unspoilt anchorages, exotic fauna and flora and a low-key lifestyle.
WASHINGTON - The Democratic-dominated Congress convenes Tuesday to confront perhaps the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and to grapple with a hugely ambitious agenda set by President-elect Barack Obama.
WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats struggled to avert a showdown steeped in race and corruption Monday as a defiant Roland Burris declared, "I'm a United States senator" and flew to the capital to claim President-elect Barack Obama's old seat in Congress.