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2 Dec, 2019
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Someone to Know: Thomas Altevogt, Toys for Tots coordinator
A retired Marine who now is an instructor of "real world self-defense" is in his seventh year of leading the charge in support of needy children by providing them with toys for Christmas.  Thomas Altevogt serves as coordinator of Marine Toys for Tots Foundation for Sangamon and Menard counties.
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Bikers brave rain, cold to help out less fortunate

Several years ago, the Bro Rider Motorcycle Club started having a holiday party at its clubhouse in Bluff Springs, an unincorporated area just east of Beardstown.

Ruthless Mexican drug cartel infiltrating U.S. towns

Operating in at least 35 states, you've probably never heard of it.

On World AIDS Day, virus ‘still part of the present’

Even after a service of remembrance marking World AIDS Day at the new AIDS memorial in Lincoln Park started Sunday afternoon, Brad Green of Springfield was still writing names on some of the blank bricks that form the 40-foot-by-40-foot span.

Springfield history: Osage orange trees served as living fences

The heyday of living fences on farms lasted less than 30 years.

Petitions submitted for Gardner alcohol referendum

Prohibition never ended in Gardner Township, which covers rural stretches just west of Springfield.

No. 5 Loggers manhandle Illinois College JV

JACKSONVILLE - The unbeaten Lincoln Land Community College women's basketball team had no problem dispatching Illinois College's reserves with an 87-42 victory on Sunday.