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
US Steel announces second furnace to be restarted at Granite City mill
U.S. Steel says it will restart the second of two blast furnaces at the Granite City mill and bring back about 300 more workers. In March, the company announced that it would restart the other blast furnace