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UNLV students hold a moment of silence for the victims of the mass shooting that killed 59 people and injured more than 525 on Oct. 2, 2017 in Las Vegas. (Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Editorial: Horror in Las Vegas and our incredible power to forget

By David D. Haynes | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
October 3, 2017
Governer of Illinois Bruce Rauner speaks to media after watching the total solar eclipse, Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, at SIU Arena in Carbondale. (Brian Muñoz | @BrianMMunoz)

After long delay, governor assumes role of Rauner the recruiter

By Monique Garcia | Chicago Tribune
September 15, 2017
Megan Fakhoury, 7, of Carbondale, takes a bite out of a cheeseburger Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017, at Dales Burgers in Carbondale. (Athena Chrysanthou | @Chrysant1Athena)

Former SIU student brings taste of Chicago to southern Illinois

By Samantha Keebler
August 31, 2017
Photo of the Day: This is what makes me happy

Photo of the Day: ‘This is what makes me happy’

By Jacob Wiegand
March 1, 2017
John Kenny, a senior from Aurora studying political science, stands outside his former home for one of the last times Feb. 23 before Dustin Wheetley, of Wheetley Construction, returns to continue tearing down the burnt Carbondale building. A structure fire engulfed the house on Nov. 23 and killed Kenny’s 20-year-old roommate, Alex Kierstead. “I can remember us all sitting in [that living room] not too long ago,” Kenny said. “I want to say that coming here to see [the house] is kind of a bit of closure, but it’s not really. It’s still an open wound. … A part of me wants to say good riddance to it all, but a part of me is just kind of numb. It’s almost better that way.”

Photo of the Day: ‘Still an open wound’

By Morgan Timms
February 23, 2017
Daily Egyptian file photo

Law proposed to increase speed limit on interstates and highways

By Don O'Brien | Belleville News-Democrat
February 22, 2017
Benjamin Puffer, hand on candle, and Josh Schenkenfelder, a senior from Oak Forest studying journalism, work to craft a display of candles that reads Alex K in memory of Alex Kierstead — who died in a house fire the day before Thanksgiving — on Friday, Dec. 2, 2016, outside the burnt home in Carbondale. Puffer, a freshman from Carbondale studying physics, met Kierstead through a mutual friend. He was a really good guy, Puffer said. Hes just really cool. He had a really good soul. Its one of the best things. Kierstead, a junior from Aurora studying political science and journalism, was remembered by a few dozen friends and mourners at the candlelight vigil held outside the burnt building at 700 W. Freeman St. where Kierstead and his three roommates resided prior to the blaze.

Friends gather to remember SIU student killed in house fire

By Cory Ray
December 3, 2016
(Photo provided by Joe Hein)

Housemates remember SIU student killed in fire as hardworking, artistic

By Bill Lukitsch
November 29, 2016
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