Gender inequality was so prevalent in the 1950s, women at certain universities were not allowed to own keys to their own dorms. If they were not back by curfew, the school punished them. The fight for...

Citizens smell something rotten in the state of Illinois and it smells a lot like money problems.Several SIU administrators were part of a panel to answer questions from the near 50-person audience Monday...

Fifty-one percent of Illinois inmates have been previously incarcerated.Barbara Kessell, a founder of a volunteer organization known as 3R’s, or Reading Reduces Recidivism, said inmates reoffend because...

The word “catholic” mean “universal,” said The Rev. Robert Flannery, priest at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Carbondale.The church is implementing this title translation toward increased...

Black History Month came to a close Sunday, and with March begins Women's History Month. Thursday’s event could serve as a transition between the two. The symposium, “ Black Female Bodies: On the...

The SIU Parking Division has increased its number of citations given after 4 p.m. and students are not happy about it.Eli Epplin, assistant coordinator of the Parking Division, said the department added...

The Ferguson Police Department engaged in patterns of arrests and racial bias that violate the Constitution and federal law, the Department of Justice will say in its report begun after the Michael Brown...