Friday's confirmation that a meteorite fell in the rural Jacksonville area three years ago has attracted two collectors from St. Louis to begin a weekend-long hunt for an extraterrestrial needle in a strewn field haystack. Read more
It was a mystery more than three years in the making. Not the bright lights reported across west-central Illinois the evening of Feb. 4, 2007. Most already figured the widespread calls to law enforcement agencies in Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois - including Morgan County - were the result of a meteor shower or pieces of space gunk entering the atmosphere. Read more