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About 15 to 20 young adults and minors were in a dispute in the 100 block of S. Main Street when the victims were shot

AP Photo/Rick Bowmer On the one hand, the evergreen argument from some gun control activists that the Second Amendment should be repealed is a more honest reckoning with the Bill of Rights than the notion that we can pass sweeping gun bans and limit the ability to own and carry firearms without infringing on a constitutionally protected right. On the other hand, the idea of actually getting repealing the Second Amendment is a pipe dream that’s a non-starter in 2021, so why bother even suggesting the idea? The answer, as far as I can tell, is that a full repeal of the right to keep and bear ...

Editor's note: The State Journal-Register is making this story about winter weather free for everyone to view as a public service. If you already subscribe, thank you. If not, please do so today at sj-r.com/subscribenow. The Springfield area was expected to get close to eight inches of snow Monday accompanied by single-digit temperatures and wind gusts of up to 25 MPH making for wind chills in the 20-below range. The snow affected area travel and schools. Alex Erwin, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Lincoln, said Springfield and Sangamon County remains under a winter st...

While discussing the life of Paul S. Peterson with Bill Anderson last Sunday, something struck a chord. Anderson described how the newspaper is not only the first words of how history is written in our country — and has been for decades — but Peterson’s love of history shined through for nearly as long. Anderson talked about how Peterson plus James Cabot, Dave Petersen, James Jensen, Sandi Lewis-Malburg and Ron Lessard, with a little dabbling myself, kept the history of our area alive, front and center, with our weekend editions over the years. Our history column by our variety...

1933. the tour begins at the little-known temperance fountain near pennsylvania avenue. >> the favor sending on right now is seventh in pennsylvania avenue, halfway between the white house in the capital, where the temperance fountain once stood. they moved in the 1980s about 100 feet north of the theater. it is very strategic here in washington d.c. because it's halfway between the white house and the capitol. right across from a very what once was a very bad neighborhood called murder row. the statue itself once stood right in front of this building right here, at the base of it wa...