Category Archives: Local News

  Fairfield Memorial Hospital is pleased to announce the appointment of Nathan Gentz as the new Director of the Fairfield Memorial Hospital Foundation. For more than two decades, Gentz has demons...

As of Tuesday, the National Weather Service (NWS) office in Paducah, Kentucky, is experiencing significant communications issues. The outage is currently affecting radar data from KVWX, KPAH, and KHPX...

A 23-year-old Albion woman has been sentenced in White County Court following a guilty plea to a theft charge. Jewell Gwaltney pleaded guilty Monday to theft of less than $300 stemming from a 2025 cas...

Members of Wayne-White Counties Electric Cooperative elected two new directors during the cooperative's annual meeting last Friday evening in Wayne City. In District 2, Blaine Norton of Fairfield defe...

A plea agreement could be under consideration in the criminal case involving former White County jailer Darren Hays. According to online court records, a Rule 402 conference was held last Thursday in ...

  The Wayne/Edwards County Farm Service Agency is reminding local farm producers to come to their office to report their spring-seeded crops as soon as planting is complete. The deadline to repor...

While Illinois motorists will avoid a scheduled gas tax increase on July 1st, several new state laws will take effect alongside the state's new $55.9 billion budget. Among the most notable changes is ...

The Edwards County School Board met last night. Mark Curtis has more.

On Sunday afternoon, Wayne County Sheriff's Deputies were notified of a car vs. deer accident on Route 45 south of Fairfield. Lucas D. Reed, 24, of Fairfield, reported to deputies that early Sunday mo...

Wayne County Sheriff's Deputies arrested three individuals on warrants in the last few days. Arnold A. Campbell, 50, of Effingham, was arrested Friday afternoon on two separate Wayne County warrants, ...