{"id":884304,"date":"2026-06-22T06:38:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T06:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/884304\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T06:38:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T06:38:28","slug":"2-dead-5-injured-in-southern-illinois-severe-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/884304\/","title":{"rendered":"2 dead, 5 injured in southern Illinois severe weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SOUTHERN ILLINOIS. (KFVS) &#8211; The severe weather in southern Illinois on June 21 has caused two deaths and five injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sheriff Jeff Bullard said one person died about five miles southeast of Dix, Ill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He also confirmed that a second victim died due to storms, and five were taken to area hospitals. This happened near North July Rd. in Mt. Vernon, Ill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Stay with Heartland News for updates.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KFVS. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTHERN ILLINOIS. (KFVS) &#8211; The severe weather in southern Illinois on June 21 has caused two deaths and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":884305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[1818,27995,125498,50,5313,8088,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-884304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","category-us","tag-illinois","tag-jefferson-county","tag-kfvs","tag-news","tag-severe-weather","tag-tornado","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116792387611694337","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}