Author Archives: Mark Wells

Candace (Talley) Darnell, 76, of New Caney, Texas, passed away on Tuesday, October 14, 2025. She was born in Carmi, Illinois, on January 4, 1949, the daughter of Earl and Rosemary (Morris) Talley. Can...

Devoted mother and grandmother, Ingrid Ginther, 83, of Carmi passed away at 4:16 p.m., on Friday, October 17, 2025 at Bethel Manor in Evansville, IN. She was born in Munich, Germany on June 15, 1942 t...

Patricia Fawn Fitzgerald, age 92, of Flora, Illinois, passed away Friday morning, October 17, 2025, at her home. She was born March 16, 1933, in Flora, the daughter of Delmar and Bertha Almeda (Asher)...

LOCAL SPORTS SCORES FOR SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18TH ON THE SCHEDULE TODAY AT FCHS: No Games Scheduled OTHER AREA SPORTS FOR TODAY: BLACK DIAMOND CONFERENCE FOOTBALL: Johnston City at Red Hill JUNIOR HIGH C...

  Grady Simpson is this year's Fairfield Community High School Homecoming King, and the Queen is Kenzie Turner. It is believed to be the FIRST time in school history that the older sister crowned...

Ashley Thompson of Grayville has been chosen as one of several volunteers to help decorate the White House for Christmas this year. Thompson is the wife of Grayville Mayor and Fire Chief Travis Thomps...

The Center Street School Board of Education will hold its regular monthly meeting on Monday night, October 20th at 6 p.m. in the Center Street School Boardroom. Board members are expected to review fi...

Thursday night around 9:17, the Clay County Sheriff's Department responded to a report of a female found unresponsive in a running vehicle outside a local business in Clay City. The caller reported th...

  Forecasters at the National Weather Service in Paducah, Kentucky say the southern Illinois region has a small chance for strong to possibly severe thunderstorms to develop later this afternoon ...

Carmi Police arrested a Carmi man Thursday night following a traffic stop. Reports from White County say 51 year old David Simmons was arrested on preliminary charges of Possession of Cannibis in a Mo...