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Jason Parrott's guest on Emphasis is Fort Madison Community Hospital CEO Jim Platt.

The Keokuk School District and former Keokuk High School Principal Michelle Lukavsky are trying to be removed from a sexual abuse lawsuit in Lee County.

The Illinois Senate has approved an overhaul of the state's pension systems.  

Burlington residents will have some say in what they pay for gas and electric services.

KHQA reported the Macomb Junior and Senior High School went into lockdown at during the 9 o'clock hour this morning.

In the last 30 years, CEOs have gone from being well-paid (more than 40 times the pay of everyday workers) to being ridiculously enriched. CEO compensation now averages hundreds of times the pay of regular working people.  

Is it worth it? To their companies and shareholders? To their industry and the economy?  To the country?

Highway bypasses have been built around some western Illinois communities and more are coming. A grant from IDOT will allow the Western Illinois Regional Council to study the impact of those bypasses.

Local law enforcement officers can get a head start on earning an advanced degree from Southeastern Community College.

A quick look at news from around the Tri-State Region.

The Lee County Board of Supervisors has ratified new two year contracts with the unions representing employees in the secondary roads department and in the administrative unit.