Williamson County officials are facing a costly records-storage decision after errors were found in thousands of digitized court files, forcing the county to retain physical documents that were expected to be destroyed.

VIENNA — A confluence of students, careers and the Mighty Rivers hit as Vienna High School students visited James Marine, Inc.

The college basketball season may have come and gone, but Christopher’s own Amiah Hargrove had anything but a sophomore slump year at Nebraska.

HERRIN — The Herrin Police Department has made an arrest of an individual in connection with a burglary that occurred on April 4 at Carmen’s Café in Herrin.

Tenure and tenure-track faculty at the University of Illinois Springfield went on strike Friday after failing to agree to new wage increases with the administration.

The strike is the first by university faculty since 2023 and the first at UIS since 2017.

The union is seeking greater annual cost-of-living wage increases, protections from artificial intelligence in the workplace and the continuation of other components from their 2022 contract.

The strike comes as state lawmakers consider overhauling how funding is allocated to Illinois universities.

UIS has 4,300 students and receives 2% of the University of Illinois system budget.

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