A Fairfield woman has pled guilty to a charge of child endangerment after she had been accused of leaving two children in a vehicle for multiple hours in hot weather on July 14th, resulting in the death of one and severely injuring the other. Court and online records indicate that 37-year-old Aydreian Hooper pled guilt...

The New Hope Grade School Board is set to meet this Tuesday night at 6 p.m. Several items are listed on the board agenda under the Superintendent's Report. They include FOIA Requests for Employee contact information, Fund Balances, a PTO Fundraiser, Brain Games, a Benefit Concert, Sports Boosters Tournament and Banners...

A Mt. Carmel man charged with criminal sexual assault appeared in Wabash County Circuit Court in Mt. Carmel Thursday. 23 year old Michael Haase is charged with criminal sexual assault after his arrest in July 2022 by Mt. Carmel Police after a warrant was issued for his arrest. The warrant came following a 2 ½ mo...

A preliminary hearing for former Wabash County Sheriff's Deputy Chase Cheadle has been postponed for the second straight month. Reports say the latest postponement came from continued health complications of special prosecutor Brian Towne. In court this past Thursday, defense attorney Jonathan Turpin stated that Towne ...

The Fairfield High School After Prom Committee has announced their winner drawn on Friday (December 13th) with the winner of $150 being Kassidy Morrison. The winning ticket was sold by Kassidy Morrison.

43-year-old Brian Davis from Olney was arrested by the Wayne County Sheriff's Department Thursday night at approximately 8:40 following a traffic stop. During the stop, probable cause to search the vehicle was developed and Deputies located methamphetamine and digital scales. Also located in the vehicle was a crossbow...

Numerous guilty pleas were handed down in Wayne County Circuit Court recently. 22-year old Jaxon Willis of Fairfield admitted to violating a previous order of two years probation on an original charge of Non-Consensual Dissemination of Private Sexual Images and was re-sentenced to one year of probation and ordered to p...

The Illinois Flag Commission has announced its top ten finalists for the state flag redesign, and among them are two talented students from Fairfield Community High School: Spresalynn Tipps and Johna Kinney. Their design, number 4321, was created as part of an assignment in their Introduction to Social Studies class. T...

During a brief video hearing on Tuesday afternoon, 44-year-old Megan Valentine waived her right to a preliminary hearing and pleaded not guilty to charges of murdering her husband, Judge Michael J. Valentine, who served as the Edwards County Resident Judge. Judge Valentine was found dead from a gunshot wound to the bac...

During last (Thursday) night's meeting of the Wayne County Board, the board reorganized as Daryl Hargrave was unanimously re-elected as Board Chairman and Gene Kollak was unanimously re-elected Vice-Chairman. The agenda was light; 3 ARPA requests were approved: $75,000 for the Highway Department, $34,758 for the Sherif...

Boys high school basketball Friday: Fairfield 61 Eldorado 49 Flora 53 Carmi-White County 49 Sesser-Valier 66 NCOE 37 North Clay 63 Newton 53 Woodlawn 45 Christopher 30 Lawrenceville 62 Mt. Carmel 35 Columbia 62 Salem 30 Mahomet-Seymour 41 Effingham 37 Mt. Vernon 50 Centralia 41 Benton 57 D...

Fairfield Mules Boys Basketball team will have a road game tonight at Eldorado. 3 levels of play with the Freshman game beginning at 5pm followed by JV and Varsity. BOYS HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL FROM THURSDAY: Cisne 53, Oblong/Palestine-Hutsonville 50 (OT) Dongola 61, Shawnee 58 Eldorado 53, Pope County 41 Elverado 54, J...

BOYS HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL FROM TUESDAY: Fairfield 43, Flora 34 Wayne City 59, Cisne 47 Webber 77, Hamilton Co 51 Altamont 59, Newton 44 Althoff 69, Father McGivney 28 Alton 52, East St Louis 49 Alton-Marquette 52, Maryville 26 Belleville East 57, Breese Central 43 Belleville West 62, Collinsville 52 Breese Mater Dei ...

The Fairfield High School After Prom Committee has announced the 12 Days of Christmas $400 winner and that winner is Gayla Templeman of Fairfield. The winning ticket was sold by Ava Best.

Fairfield Mules Boys Basketball will be on the road tonight as they travel to Flora. Three levels of basketball tonight withe the freshman/sophmore game beginning at 5pm. GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL FROM MONDAY: Carmi-White County 30, Fairfield 7 (JV: Fairfield 38, Carmi-White Co 18) Bethalto Civic 63, East St Louis 2...