Author Archives: Mark Wells

LOCAL SPORTS SCORES FOR SATURDAY, MARCH 7TH   ON THE SCHEDULE TODAY AT FCHS: Mules Track at the EIU Indoor Track Meet at Charleston   OTHER AREA SPORTS FOR TODAY: HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS BASKETBAL...

Showers and thunderstorms are in the forecast for the area today and again toward the middle of next week. Temperatures are expected to be closer to normal by midweek next week after running above nor...

Two Mt. Vernon, IL men have been sentenced in separate cases. 71 year old Larry Moss was sentenced to ten years in prison for residential arson in Jefferson County Court after he admitted to setting a...

One area resident has been sentenced after pleading guilty to criminal sexual assault charges, while another has been found guilty of multiple sexual assault charges following a jury trial. Media repo...

  The Wayne County Board will meet for its regular monthly meeting next Thursday, March 12th at 7:00 PM in the upstairs courtroom of the Wayne County Courthouse. The meeting will open with prayer...

  The Fairfield City Council will hold its regular meeting on Tuesday, March 10th at 6:00 p.m. The meeting will take place in the Council Chambers at 109 NE 2nd St., Fairfield. The agenda will in...

Darin Hopper, Grover Township Highway Commissioner, announced that County Road 815 North will be closed tomorrow (Saturday) for necessary culvert repair work. The affected section is located between 2...

33-year-old Anthony Vasoli of Fairfield has been sentenced to seven years in prison after his probation for burglarizing and vandalizing the Fairfield Light Plant was revoked in Wayne County Circuit C...

Three defendants appeared before Judge Matt Vaughn in Wayne County Circuit Court on Thursday, facing sentences related to probation violations and criminal trespass. Randall G. Legg, 51, of Fairfield,...

Emergency crews from the Fairfield Rural Fire Department, Cisne Fire Department, Wayne County Sheriff's Department, and Wayne County Ambulance responded to two separate water rescues late Thursday nig...