SIU Board of Trustees calls special Executive Committee meeting

Southern Illinois University’s board of trustees has called a meeting for later this week to discuss the future of the school’s president. Two members of the board’s executive committee called Friday’s special meeting to consider placing university

Opening statements made in Bethune murder trial

Opening statements were given yesterday in the murder trial of Gaege Bethune. The man accused in the 2014 death of an SIU student. Special Prosecutor David Robinson told the jury Bethune committed two crimes aggravated battery and