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Just another day on job for Drysdale playoff winner Schnepp
Karlie Schnepp had to work five holes of overtime on Monday at Lincoln Greens Golf Course. And then she had to go to wor…
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Springfield-area native ranked No. 1 in archery, shooting for Paralympics
For years, Ben Thompson was the hunter in world archery para athlete circles.That changed last month when Thompson, a Bu…
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Prosecutor: Death penalty warranted in scholar's killing
PEORIA - The legal battle over whether a former University of Illinois doctoral student should live or die for the kidna…
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Davis wants funding 'portfolio' for transportation
U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis, R-Taylorville, said Monday he thinks funding for the nation's highway infrastructure shouldn't j…
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Archie Lawrence, plaintiff in voting rights lawsuit, dies at 72
Archie Lawrence, who helped advance the federal lawsuit that led to Springfield's mayor-aldermanic form of government, d…
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Drysdale Junior golf scores, tee times
(Tuesday's match-play tee times, with Monday's stroke-play score in parentheses. Bye indicates player automatically adva…
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Leadership changes announced for SJ-R newsroom
Opinion page editor Kate Schott has been named interim editor of The State Journal-Register, while longtime digital mana…
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Mystery solved: Montgomery Gentry to do Fair Grandstand show
The mystery is no more with Monday's announcement that Montgomery Gentry will be the free Grandstand entertainment at th…
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Local soccer fans come for the camaraderie, stay for the win
The United States Women's National Team had just won its fourth World Cup soccer title with a 2-0 win over the Netherlan…
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Still awhile before legal sports betting begins in Illinois
Just because Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed a massive gaming expansion into law, which, among other things, legalized spo…
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High school 'pipeline' program produces first crop of medical students
A program begun 10 years ago to encourage Springfield-area high school students interested in becoming doctors and to he…
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Bernard Schoenburg: Despite population differences, court boundaries could stay
With the 2020 census looming, there's plenty of talk - as there is every decade - about redistricting, and what new stat…
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Marijuana potency gets increased scrutiny after link to psychosis
As Illinois prepares to legalize marijuana next year, one key aspect of public health that regulators will consider is w…
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Abortion rights advocates plan to tackle Parental Notification next
Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law one of the most liberal reproductive health care measures in the country l…
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A La Carte: New south side Dunkin' opens next weekend
South side commuters are down to the last week of waiting to make their DUNKIN' runs.The long anticipated coffee and dou…
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