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Serving the Southern Illinois University community since 1916.

The Daily Egyptian

Serving the Southern Illinois University community since 1916.

The Daily Egyptian

Junior catcher Anna Carder (19) jogs towards third base after a home run against Bradley University April 11, 2025 at Charlotte West Stadium in Carbondale, Illinois. Jason Isele | @iselephotography

Carefree Carder brings calm and coolness to Saluki softball

By Ryan Grieser, Sports Reporter April 15, 2025

If you’ve not been following Saluki softball for the last two years, it’d be natural to think, “Hey, this Anna Carder is really good,” assuming she’s been a dominant force on the team and one...

Protestors stand near the railroad tracks for the Hands Off protest April 5, 2025 in Carbondale, Illinois.
Daylin Williams | @photosbydaylin

Hands Off protest stands up in Carbondale

By Enan Chediak, Photo Editor April 8, 2025

The intersection of Illinois 13 and U.S. 51 were lined with people protesting as part of the national Hands Off protest.    This protest was part of more than 1,300 that took place around the...

The Beshears' bridge lays upside-down in their pond far from where it previously stood, torn out in the tornado the night before April 3, 2025 in Goreville, Illinois.

Shelter in time of storm: Beshears family weathers tornado in Goreville

By Enan Chediak and Dominique Martinez-Powell April 8, 2025

GOREVILLE, ILLINOIS - The bridge that once stood over the pond was upside down in the middle of the water. The gazebo was wobbly and askew, and the brick chimney that had once hugged the side of the two-story...

Randy Lambdin moves pieces of a shed that was destroyed by a tornado with an excavator April 2, 2025 at Randy Colyer’s farm in East Cape Girardeau.

Tornadoes hit both sides of Mississippi, travel through Cape Girardeau area

By Lylee Gibbs , Editor-in-Chief April 8, 2025

CAPE GIRARDEAU, MISSOURI  – Two tornadoes tore through the Cape Girardeau area and across the mighty Mississippi River to the Illinois banks, leaving several communities affected in the wake of the...

DE Tries: Sound Therapy

By Will Elliott April 8, 2025

Pat York, who owns True Nature Holistic Arts in downtown Carbondale, defines a sound bath as a “practice that uses vibrations from instruments like gongs, singing bowls and chimes to promote deep relaxation...

Tucker Wright steps on a wooden pallet he put in the flooded street as it rains April 5, 2025 on Locust Street in Vienna, Illinois.

Vienna floods after weekend rains, but not the worst city’s seen

By Lylee Gibbs, Editor-in-Chief April 7, 2025

VIENNA, ILLINOIS - At the end of a flooded apartment complex driveway, two young children push around wooden pallets they carried down to the water's edge in their rain boots and coats. A bursting Little...

Fourth-generation farmer Randy Colyer, 60, stands in front of where his shed used to be for a portrait April 3, 2025 in East Cape Girardeau. After a tornado swept the area, his entire shed and farming machinery was destroyed. Nearly a dozen of his friends and family came out to help clean up the damage.

Tornado hits both sides of Mississippi, travels through Cape Girardeau

By Lylee Gibbs, Editor-in-Chief April 4, 2025

CAPE GIRARDEAU, MISSOURI  – Two tornadoes tore through the Cape Girardeau area and across the mighty Mississippi River to the Illinois banks, leaving several communities affected in the wake of the...

A cottonmouth sticks its head out of the water in the LaRue Swamp March 27, 2025 at Snake Road in Union County, Illinois

Gallery: LaRue road popular with both snakes and people

By Enan Chediak and Lylee Gibbs April 4, 2025

  A nearly 2.5-mile stretch of gravel road in Union County, Illinois divides the bluffs of LaRue Pine Hill from the LaRue Swamp, and a sign next to the gate at the entrance reads in big bold...

Damaged trees lay on the ground off the side of Tall Tree Road April 3, 2025 in Johnson County, Illinois.

Johnson County officials scramble to recover from severe storms and prepare for flooding

By Joslyn Cole, Staff Reporter April 3, 2025

VIENNA, ILLINOIS – After back-to-back disasters, Johnson County officials are racing to keep up with relief efforts as they attempt to balance tornado cleanup and looming flood threats.  An Emergency...

Carbondale firefighters Bryan Bennett, left, and Steven Abbott, right, sit together at a table to eat dinner in the fire department as live storm coverage from WPSD Local 6 plays on the television in the background April 2, 2025 at Carbondale Fire Department Station 2 in Carbondale, Illinois.

Gallery: Carbondale Fire Department awaits severe weather

By Lylee Gibbs, Editor-in-Chief April 3, 2025

Standing under the open bay door to the firehouse, several Carbondale firefighters watched as the sky quickly passed by, occasional bolts of lightning flashing a purple hue around. In the next room,...

Cindy Beshears looks out the window of her back porch at the storm damage in her backyard April 3, 2025 in Goreville, Illinois.

Shelter in time of storm: Beshears family weathers tornado in Goreville

By Enan Chediak and Dominique Martinez-Powell April 3, 2025

GOREVILLE, ILLINOIS - The bridge that once stood over the pond was upside down in the middle of the water. The gazebo was wobbly and askew, and the brick chimney that had once hugged the side of the two-story...

Kyle Taylor takes a close-up photograph of a cottonmouth while hiking Snake Road March 27, 2025 in Shawnee National Forest in Union County, Illinois.

Out in force: snake migration draws visitors from Illinois and abroad

By Enan Chediak and Lylee Gibbs March 29, 2025

Why did the snake cross the road? To slither to its summer home.  After a short period of cold weather, the snakes were out, crossing the road on a warm Thursday in spring. Thousands of snakes migrate...

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