Category Archives: Local News

Our Angel of Hope of Southeastern Illinois held their drawing yesterday (Friday) for a $600 gift certificate from Country Home Processing in Albion. The winner is Alyssa Parrott from Ellery. The drawi...

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Fairfield Rural Fire Department along with mutual aid from Fairfield City Fire, Wayne City Fire Department and Wayne County Ambulance personnel responded to a large structure fire Thursday night just ...

The Wayne County Board met last (Thursday) night in the upstairs courtroom of the Wayne County Courthouse with 11 members present. A District 5 vacancy was filled by the appointment of TJ Vaughan who ...

In a recent development in the murder case of Megan Valentine, her attorney has officially waived her client's right to a speedy trial. During a brief hearing conducted in a Zoom format on Tuesday, at...

31-year-old Jonathan Downen of Benton was arresated Thursday afternoon by the Wayne County Sheriff's Department on a Wayne County warrant for Violation of Pretrial Release on originals charges of Unla...

Franklin County Sheriff Kyle Bacon has confirmed that a missing Benton woman, Jessica A. Powell, has been located and is safe. The 37-year-old was last in contact with a family member on December 29. ...

    Drs. Shawnt Tosonian and Abdulmonam Ali pictured with the new robotic lung biopsy system (Photo courtesy of SSM Health)   Good Samaritan Hospital in Mt. Vernon has made a significan...

The Illinois Department of Public Health is adding four conditions to the list of medical issues that may be treated with medical cannabis. The four newly approved conditions are endometriosis, ovaria...

The National Weather Service in Paducah has issued a Winter Storm Warning for our area from now until midnight tonight with heavy snow and 4 to 7 inches possible for all of southern Illinois, southwes...