By Verna Slate, Williamson County Bureau
CARTERVILLE, Ill. — An FBI tip has led to an investigation into allegations of sex abuse connected to a Carterville school, according to WPSD Local 6.
This is the kind of story that shakes a small college town harder than most, because a school here is not an abstraction — it's the building where half the neighborhood's kids spend their days, and the people who work in it are neighbors before they're anything else. The details of the allegations and who is involved were reported by WPSD Local 6.
The American Times will continue following this investigation as more information becomes available through official channels.
— Compiled from reporting by WPSD Local 6.
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