05/06/2005

Suhr appointed AP correspondent for southern Illinois

CHICAGO -- Jim Suhr, a business writer in the St. Louis bureau of The Associated Press, has been appointed correspondent for southern Illinois.

The announcement was made April 28 by Richard Brack, assistant chief of bureau in Chicago. The southern Illinois correspondent is responsible for news across southern Illinois, including the Illinois suburbs of St. Louis.

Suhr, who will be based in St. Louis, has been a business writer in St. Louis since 2001. Suhr joined the AP in 1997 in Detroit, where he worked until moving to St. Louis.

He previously was a reporter for the Leavenworth (Kan.) Times in Kansas and The Joplin (Mo.) Globe.