Feature | Wednesday, May 28,2008

Least likely to succeed

Before she could graduate from high school, Chevonne Watson had to survive the school of hard knocks

Untitled Document Chevonne Watson walks from the Lawrence Adult Education Center to her rent-subsidized apartment three miles east in Poplar Place because she canR

Feature | Wednesday, May 28,2008

Empowerment, not entitlement

Center teaches parents how to take charge of their own lives

By Dusty Rhodes

Untitled Document Center teaches parents how to take charge of their own lives By DUSTY RHODES Parents who enroll in the family literacy program at

Feature | Wednesday, May 14,2008

Cutting-edge

Springfield researcher takes a revealing look at Civil War medical practices

By Tara McClellan McAndrew

Untitled Document Civil War medicine is notorious for being gruesome. It’s an odd topic for the squeamish, like Springfield author Glenna Schroeder-Lein, whose

Feature | Wednesday, May 14,2008

Camp Misery

Medicine was sparse at badly overcrowded Camp Butler

By Tara McClellan McAndrew

Untitled Document During the Civil War, Springfield had one of the state’s largest soldier-training facilities: Camp Butler, located about six miles northeast o

Feature | Wednesday, May 14,2008

Recipe for hunger

Why turning food crops into fuel may spell worldwide famine

By Stan Cox

Untitled Document With hungry, angry people taking to the streets in countries on every continent — from Morocco to Mexico and Pakistan to the Philippines and at least 20 o

Feature | Wednesday, May 7,2008

Killing time?

A recent US Supreme Court case restarts the debate about the death penalty in Illinois

By Amanda Robert

Two Kentucky death-row inmates — one convicted of killing a sheriff and a deputy sheriff, the other convicted of killing a couple and woundin

Feature | Wednesday, May 7,2008

Murderers' Row

Fifteen men face the death penalty in Illinois.

By Amanda Robert

Untitled Document Rodney Adkins Adkins, 44, was sentenced by a Cook County judge in August 2007 for the 2003 killing of an Oak Park woman during a burglary.

Feature | Wednesday, April 30,2008

Friend-in-Deed in need

The popular Springfield charity loses its best friend. Who will step in now that the State Journal-Register is stepping back?

By R. L. Nave

Untitled Document For 10 years, Barry Locher was responsible for establishing and maintaining relationships with key Springfield businesses, double-checking hundreds

Feature | Wednesday, April 23,2008

Seventh heaven

For Patty Redpath, family life was pretty good. It's about to get a whole lot better.

By Dusty Rhodes

Untitled Document The first thing you see when you enter Patty Redpath’s house is two laundry baskets brimming with shoes — big shoes, little shoes, snea

Feature | Wednesday, April 16,2008

Madness

A nation of pistols and Prozac

By Hal Crowther

Untitled Document In the London Times, under the headline “The United States of America has gone mad,” the British novelist John le Carré began his