Author Archives: Mark Wells

  Some changes are coming for Illinois high school students preparing to apply for college. Reports say students will now be required to take the ACT test instead of the SAT for the state's stand...

TILTON - Illinois State Police (ISP) Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) Zone 5 special agents arrested 23-year-old Ryan N. Emory from Tilton, IL for 11 counts of Dissemination of Child Pornograp...

Sandra Kay Fore, 77, of Fairfield passed away at 11:42AM on Wednesday February 19, 2025, at Fairfield Memorial Hospital. She had been a taxi driver in Dallas TX. Sandra was born in Edwards County Illi...

Nathan Michael Buchanan, 49, of Carmi, passed away on Wednesday, February 19, 2025, at Deaconess Midtown Hospital in Evansville, Indiana. He was born on December 15, 1975, in Carmi, the son of Michael...

Ruth Ann Young, 78, of Fairfield, passed away at 8:00pm on Thursday, February 20, 2025, at SSM Good Samaritan Hospital in Mt. Vernon, IL. She had been a homemaker. Ruth Ann was born on November 16, 19...

Staci Dawn Murphy, 57, of Springerton, passed away on Tuesday, February 18, 2025, at St. Vincent Hospital in Evansville, Indiana. She was born on August 8, 1967, in Fairfield, Illinois, the daughter o...

Larry David Schnicker, Sr., 77, of McLeansboro, went home to be with the Lord on Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 10:30 p.m. at Hamilton Memorial Hospital in McLeansboro. He was born as a twin in Dahlgr...

24-year-old Kaleb Herren of Fairfield appeared in Wayne County Circuit Court Thursday and admitted to violating a previous order of probation on an original charge of Unlawful Possession of Methamphet...

Wayne County Sheriff's Department arrested a Fairfield woman, 31-year-old Sarah E Devous for Resisting or Obstructing a Peace Officer and also a Wayne County Warrant for Unlawful Possession of Methamp...

Wayne County Sheriff's Deputies and first responders were called to the scene of a single vehicle accident on US Hwy 15 and County Hwy 10 in Big Mound Township Thursday morning around 11 O'clock. Depu...