Wednesday, June 19 2013 11:01 AM EDT2013-06-19 15:01:25 GMT
Rail repair work is nearly complete following a train derailment in Jackson County.
Rail repair work is nearly complete following a train derailment in Jackson County.
CARBONDALE, IL (KFVS) -
As students move into the SIU towers, just across the street looks more like a war zone than a college campus.
The triads, three dorms on the east end of campus, were demolished over the summer.
School officials say they were old, outdated and didn't even have sprinkler systems.
Tearing them down will make way for new, state of the art residence halls.
Chancellor Rita Cheng says losing out on all that living space will not make way for a student housing crunch.
"We planned ahead and built Wall and Grand and did some other remodeling to absorb the students that were housed in those residence halls," said Cheng. "So they were nearly empty last spring. And the last group was in Allen 3 last semester, (they) moved out and we didn't bring any students back."
The new residence halls are just in the planning phase right now.
Chancellor Cheng says the university hopes to break ground as soon as possible though, to get those new dorms ready for fall 2015.
A mentally disabled woman and her young child were enslaved for more than a year, denied food and threatened with a pet python and pit bills, and the woman was beaten and forced to get pain medication for her...
A mentally disabled woman charged with shoplifting a candy bar asked to be jailed because three people "had been mean to her" - then went on to tell authorities about her time spent in unfathomably cruel servitude, along...
Tuesday, June 18 2013 8:22 PM EDT2013-06-19 00:22:22 GMT
Police have identified two men accused of stealing thousands of pounds of watermelons from local grocery stores. Beaverton police were called out to the WinCo Foods store on Cedar Hills Boulevard the
Police have identified two men accused of stealing thousands of pounds of watermelons from local WinCo Foods stores.
Tuesday, June 18 2013 9:23 AM EDT2013-06-18 13:23:30 GMT
A 5-year-old girl set up a lemonade stand across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church compound, and now the group is targeting her. Jayden Sink raised nearly $200 on Friday while she sold lemonade
A 5-year-old girl set up a lemonade stand across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church compound, and now the group is targeting her.
Tuesday, June 18 2013 4:20 PM EDT2013-06-18 20:20:32 GMT
An 11 year old Columbus girl wanted to do something special to support our troops fighting overseas, so she wrote a letter to a soldier in Afghanistan.
An 11 year old Columbus girl wanted to do something special to support our troops fighting overseas, so she wrote a letter to a soldier in Afghanistan. On Father's Day, she found out just how much that simple gesture meant to the sergeant who received it.
All content ©Copyright 2000 - 2013 WorldNow and KFVS, a Raycom Media Station. 
