State-of-the-art equipment, top health care professionals are right here in our own backyard (Southern Illinoisan)

You don't need to turn the page back that far to recognize the mind-boggling advancements that have occurred within the southern Illinois health care arena.
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Serving Marion, Illinois (Marion Daily Republican)

MARION -- State Representative John Bradley, D-Marion, reminded parents of area students that the deadline is nearing to take advantage of a state grant to reimburse some of the costs for driving children to and from school because of the lack of free transportation.
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Serving Marion, Illinois (Marion Daily Republican)

Mother Nature has not been all that friendly lately, and local high school sports teams are paying the price. A whole bunch of games have been cancelled over the past couple of weeks. And that's just baseball and softball. Track, tennis and soccer have taken a hit as well.
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Healthy Demand: Technical academy focuses on health careers as shortage looms (Herald & Review)

DECATUR - Within the next five years, Illinois will face a critical shortage of health professionals. Decatur Area Technical Academy is doing its part to help.
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Brandon Murphy transferring to Eastern (Journal Gazette & Times Courier)

CHARLESTON -- Brandon Murphy chose to sign with Eastern Illinois Monday, shortly after the former University of Illinois pitcher had announced he was seeking to transfer.
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News (Pantagraph)

NORMAL -- What a joke. Terri Ryburn-LaMonte, who wrapped up a 26-year career at Illinois State University a few weeks ago, has a funny idea of retirement.
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RITE CHOICE (Meat News)

Trim-Rite, a U.S. pork processor, announces it will build a plant in Freeport, Illinois.
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Lewis to play larger role for Eagles (phillyburbs.com)

PHILADELPHIA - Greg Lewis is now the No. 3 receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles, a slot in which he feels comfortable, but not content. An undrafted free agent in 2003 from the University of Illinois, Lewis initially signed on with the Eagles to compete for a roster spot.
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Brown: Weber could be more supportive By Lindsey Willhite (Daily Herald)

Dee Brown says he does not have a beef with Bruce Weber. Got along great with the Illinois coach last weekend when they entertained a recruit and father-child basketball campers in Champaign.
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Aaaaa-Chooo: It's time to prepare for Allergy Season (Southern Illinoisan)

An abundance of trees, rolling fields and opulent foliage is a natural part of southern Illinois' charm. Unfortunately, for the allergy sufferer, the attractive landscape of southern Illinois is a double-edged sword of natural beauty and constant sneezing.
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News (Pantagraph)

SPRINGFIELD -- Manufacturers of yo-yo water balls should soon cross Illinois off their list of distribution areas. Gov. Rod Blagojevich is expected to sign legislation today that would make Illinois the first state in the nation to ban the potentially dangerous child toy.
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Illinois woman dies in rafting accident (KVIA)

PILAR, N.M. An Illinois woman who couldn't swim has been killed in a rafting accident on the Rio Grande river today. State police spokesman Peter Olson says 61-year-old Carol Walen was killed after the raft she was in flipped between Pilar and Embudo in northern New Mexico.
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News (Pantagraph)

BLOOMINGTON -- Illinois Wesleyan University political science professor Greg Shaw dipped the tires of his bicycle in the Atlantic Ocean on Tuesday to complete a ride of about 3,330 miles across the United States.
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Prosecutor seeks to expand successful Second Chance program (The Beacon News)

ST. CHARLES TOWNSHIP An 84-year-old man who tried bribing an Illinois Secretary of State employee because he failed a driving test is among Kane County's Second Chance Program successes.
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Purdue beats U-M in the ninth (Detroit News)

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Consecutive ninth-inning homers propelled Purdue to a 9-7 victory over Michigan in the Big Ten Baseball tournament on Friday. Seeded second in the tournament, Purdue moved on to play top-seeded Illinois in the consolation bracket of the tournament.
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Second Chance picks up support (The Beacon News)

ST. CHARLES TOWNSHIP An 84-year-old man who tried bribing an Illinois Secretary of State's Office employee because he failed a driving test is among Kane County's Second Chance Program successes.
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State, U.S. officials announce plan to combat human trafficking (Chicago Sun-Times)

Federal and state agencies are joining forces to ferret out human trafficking in Illinois and assist its victims, a program officials introduced Tuesday as the first of its kind in the nation.
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Wayne People in the News (Detroit News)

Bruce O. Bublitz is the new dean of the School of Management at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He previously was associate provost of the University of Texas at San Antonio. Bublitz holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from Illinois State University and is a certified public accountant.
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Illinois woman dies in Rio Grande rafting accident (Belleville News-Democrat)

PILAR, N.M. - An Illinois woman who couldn't swim has been killed in a rafting accident on the Rio Grande river in northern New Mexico. Carol Walen, 61, drowned Sunday after the raft she was riding in flipped on a section of the river between Pilar and Embudo, state police spokesman Peter Olson said.
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Federal Officials Join Illinois In Effort To Curb Human Trafficking (WBBM)

- CHICAGO -- Governor Blagojevich Tuesday signed a bill to help prosecute those people who traffick in human beings and to help the victims who what some call modern day slavery.
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Advertisement (Peoria Journal Star)

PEORIA - Though the clock is ticking, the City Council on Tuesday once again deferred a vote on moving forward with the investigation of a possible purchase of Peoria's division of Illinois-American Water Co.
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