Category Archives: Local News

(Photo: St. John's Lutheran Church in Effingham)   The Illinois State Police are investigating an officer-involved shooting that occurred Sunday morning at St. John's Lutheran Church in Effingham...

The Illinois State Police are investigating the death of a 5-month-old child in Centralia. According to the Centralia Police Department, officers, firefighters and EMS personnel responded at approxima...

The Fairfield Community High School District 225 Board of Education will hold a special meeting tonight (Monday) at 6 p.m. in the FCHS Board Room. Following roll call, agenda adjustments, and recognit...

Fairfield Memorial Hospital has earned the American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines - Stroke Rural Gold Recognition Award, honoring the hospital's commitment to providing high-quality, evi...

Wayne City Matters is inviting the community to an evening of bingo, food and fun on Friday, July 10th at the Wayne City Community Building. Food service will begin at 5:30 p.m., with bingo games star...

Frontier Community College will host two Baseball Summer Youth Camps in July at FNB Field on the Fairfield campus. The first camp, for children ages 5 to 9, will be held July 13th and 14th from 9 a.m....

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources is accepting applications for its Open Space Land Acquisition and Development, or OSLAD, grant program through August 31st. This year, $37.5 million is ava...

More typical early July weather is expected for the southern Illinois region this holiday weekend. Forecasters at the National Weather Service in Paducah, Kentucky say the region has daily chances for...

Reports out of Lawrence County earlier this week indicated that the Sheriff's Department was transferring its inmates temporarily to the Richland County Jail in Olney. Lawrence County Sheriff Trent Ma...

The Illinois Department of Early Childhood (IDEC) officially begins operations as Illinois' first agency focused entirely on early childhood programs and services. IDEC begins operations with 385 empl...