The economic impact of the increasingly likely purchase of this city's iconic brewer by Belgian firm InBev would take a long time to shake out.

You can take the woman out of Brooklyn, but you can't take Brooklyn out of the woman. Maggie Flanagan, who has been president of the Southern Illinois Community Foundation in Marion for the last 10 years and was a member

GALATIA - Ann Cluck certainly did not intend to start a business when she planted her first bed of daylilies back in 1996. "It was a hobby that got out of control," she said with a laugh. "Then I started

MARION - Celia Robertson says her House 2 Home business in Marion is growing and will soon expand into Cape Girardeau.