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Four are hurt, three seriously and one is ticketed in a car/ATV crash in rural Payson just after 4 p.m. Saturday.

Both drivers are killed in a two car head on crash on Interstate 72 at Milepost 32 north of Pittsfield at 3:39 p.m. Tuesday.

Three are hurt, two seriously, in a two car crash on Highway 6 west of Brashear in Adair County at 6:50 a.m. Friday.

A Quincy woman is injured in a single vehicle crash on Illinois Highway 61 at Hancock County Road 2500 East just after 2 p.m. Saturday.

Four are hurt, one seriously, in a two vehicle crash on Highway 61 north of Palmyra just before 2 p.m. Tuesday.

Two men have been arrested in Georgia in connection with the shooting death of an Augusta man last week.

A Clayton man suffers serious injuries in a one car crash just south of the junction of Highways 107 and 104 in Pike County at 12:15 p.m. Saturday.

The westbound lanes of Interstate 72 in Pike County were closed for about an hour Monday evening when a semi-tractor trailer caught fire.

A Hannibal man suffers serious injuries in a single vehicle crash at milepost two on Interstate 72 in Pike County, Illinois just after 2 p.m. Friday.

One thing is for sure, if there isn’t a police department to protect people, those people will find ways to protect themselves.