KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Patrick Mahomes is giving strong indication that he’ll be the Kansas City Chiefs’ starting quarterback for the AFC championship game Sunday against Buffalo. The 2018 NFL MVP took the majority of first-team reps in practice Thursday, even though he remains in the NFL’s concussion protocol. Mahomes was initially listed as…… Read more »
UNDATED (AP) — A huge run allowed unranked Indiana to post its most impressive win of the season. The Hoosiers trailed 53-44 before reeling off a 22-3 spurt in an 81-69 victory at fourth-ranked Iowa. The Hawkeyes didn’t have a field goal for an 11-minute stretch until Joe Toussaint’s layup with 59.6 seconds remaining. Trayce…… Read more »
UNDATED (AP) — The Tampa Bay Lightning have continued their perfect start to the season. Brayden Point scored 1:56 into overtime to complete the Lightning’s 3-2 victory over the Blue Jackets. Tampa Bay took a 2-1 lead on goals by Blake Coleman and Mathieu Joseph 1:23 apart late in the second period. Columbus picked up…… Read more »
The Marion County Health Department reported 27 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday. There were no additional deaths. Of the new cases, none were long term care residents. Six were students, with contact tracing completed on three of them that were in school during their infectious period. The department reports 19 of the cases are the…… Read more »
The Illinois State Board of Education is expressing concerns about new graduation mandates approved by lawmakers last week. If signed into law, the large education bill passed during the lame duck session will require high schoolers to take two years of laboratory science, a computer literacy course and two years of a foreign language. Board…… Read more »
The South Central School Board has finalized the issuance of $1.9-million in general obligation school bonds. Kendall King of King Financial says unlike other bonds, the district will incur no interest costs because the district will receive the money over four years as property tax money is received from district residents. Superintendent Kerry Herdes is…… Read more »
The South Central Grade School is back in regular session after a week of full remote learning January 7th through the 15th due to a large number of staff on quarantine. Principal Sara Rose says this all happened rather quickly and it wasn’t an easy decision. “I have to compliment our staff, families and students…… Read more »
The Kaskaskia College Blue Devils opened up their season at home with no fans in attendance due to Covid mitigations. It didn’t slow the home team down as KC rolled past Missouri Baptist 104-77. Brian Hancock’s team took a 57-37 lead at halftime as they led from start to finish. Payton Sheen had 28 to…… Read more »
7th Grade Honor Roll: Morgan Ashlock Preston Brown Keygan Cox Jacoby Diaz Sierra Ford Easton Garner Harlie Harper Braylon Hodge Foster James Liagel Lyons Calvin Melton Ethan Moorhead Gracie Morales Zacheria Phelps-Breeze Ashantia Rowcliff Ryan Wilderman 7th Grade High Honor Roll: Thomas Biggs Peyton Jett Cameron Reynolds 8th Grade Honor Roll: Emma Caldwell…… Read more »
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Tomas Hertl scored the only goal in a four-round shootout to give the San Jose Sharks a 2-1 victory over the St. Louis Blues. Marcus Sorensen scored the tying goal late in the second period and Martin Jones made 22 saves for the Sharks, who snapped a six-game losing streak to…… Read more »