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A controversial decision by the Lee County Board of Supervisors seems to have boosted interest in a property tax auction held in Fort Madison.

The Illinois Road Fund aggregates billions of dollars every year to build and repair highways, but a new report from Illinois' auditor general said more than half the money is going for employee salaries and benefits as well as paying off bonds.

The April explosion at the West, Texas, fertilizer plant that killed 14 people, injured about 200 others and destroyed dozens of homes was so powerful it could be felt 50 miles away, registering as a 2.1-magnitude earthquake. The blast should continue to rumble throughout the country since its owner apparently didn’t disclose the dangers there, and the government agencies responsible for protecting the area also failed.

The deadline for the USDA’s Ag census is at the end of the month. It's conducted every 5 years and collects information on land prices and ownership as well as agricultural practices.

The head of the Lee County Board of Supervisors is defending the hiring of a consulting firm for an upcoming project.

The Macomb Public Library is inching closer to the local fundraising goal as part of the plan to build an addition to its Carnegie building.

Western Illinois University administrators unveiled a plan to save $4.5 million in the fiscal year that begins July 1, 2013.

The cost to rent farmland in southeast Iowa has increased substantially in the last five years.  The increases have been even higher statewide.

The Shop Talk panelists discuss the compensation for top executives of major media companies.

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn applied to have 11 counties declared federal disaster areas because of recent flooding.