WGNTV Chicago - Fri Nov 20

An underground southern Illinois coal mine will close by the end of the year. Knight Hawk Coal says the 50 workers at the Royal Falcon mine near the boundary of Franklin and Jackson counties will be offered transfers to the company's Prairie Eagle site near Cutler, in nearby Perry County.

KFVS12 - Wed Nov 18

A 19-year-old woman facing murder charges showed no emotion when she appeared in a Franklin county courtroom Wednesday.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Wed Nov 18

BENTON, Ill . -- A Southern Illinois judge is weighing whether a woman accused of hiding her 6-year-old son in a crawl space for nearly two years whenever visitors arrived should have visitation rights.