Released on bond from Knox County Jail, Ralph E. Frakes ended any future court action against him with a self-inflicted .12 gauge shotgun blast to the head in the parking lot of McDonough District Hospital. Frakes, 68, of Willi...
With tournament time just around the corner, the Leatherneck basketball team may be thinking about who they may play in the first-round of the Mid-Continent Conference tournament.Saturday, the 'Necks may get a taste of who th...
The Macomb City Council met last night to determine if Macomb bars should keep their extended closing hour of 2 a.m. on weekends.The council decided to extended the hours, on a 4-3 vote, from 1 to 2 a.m. on a 14-week trial basis l...
Twenty years ago in theaters across the country, a generation experienced "Star Wars" for the first time. Even creator George Lucas couldn't fathom the stratospheric success of the space fantasy melodrama.Lucas was in Los Angeles ...
There is a new trend in the National Football league these days and I'm getting very sick and tired of it.The trend is for teams that are major losers for years and years to hire coaches from the broadcast booth. This practice ...
When the Westerwind basketball team goes to Youngstown State University Saturday, they will be going for a measure of revenge. The 'Winds lost to the Lady Penguins earlier in the season.The Lady Penguins are very strong offensi...
Macomb could lose the St. Louis Rams summer training camp to Wisconsin because of a change in the leadership of the organization.Rams head coach Dick Vermiel said in a St. Louis press conference that he was interested in moving ...
Many college students do not expect to graduate in four years, but WIU, following the lead of many other universities, is working on a new program to ensure timely degree completion. The program is called Gradtrack, and it will ...
As students at WIU, we are very fortunate to be part of an institution that is making attempts to move in a positive direction both academically and socially. Despite the recent rise in optimism for WIU, we must put all of this back p...
The memory and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was not confined to just one day of celebration.The 11th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Celebration took place Wednesday night at 7 p.m. in the University Unio...
While President Clinton has been accused of womanizing, taking money from the Indonesians and other such ethical and/or moral misconduct, such has been the case for Newt Gingrich, Bob Packwood and others in recent years.The fac...
The Macomb Police Department is proposing a staff increase for the upcoming year and the next two years. According to Police Chief Steve Williams, the proposal calls for adding a community service officer, a secretary and two ...
