Category Archives: Local News

For a change, several chances for rainfall are in the forecast for the southern Illinois region this weekend and into next week. The area has been quite dry the past several weeks, and according to th...

The Fairfield Fall Fun Fest Committee has announced it's button winners drawn for Wednesday and Thursday. The results are listed below. Be sure to check and see if you have the winning button number f...

A Fairfield resident, 55-year-old Larry Dale Haygood was arrested Thursday afternoon by Fairfield Police on a Wayne County warrant for Criminal Damage to Property and Aggravated Assault. Haygood was t...

The Fairfield Community High School of Education met for their regular monthly meeting last (Thursday) night. A budget hearing was held proceeding the regular meeting with no public comments. The boar...

Two Fairfield residents appeared in Wayne County Circuit Court Thursday before Judge Michael Valentine. 27-year-old Gage Devers admitted in court to violating his terms of 18 months probation on an or...

The Fairfield Grade School board is considering hiring a "universal screener" for students in grades 4th-8th. This screener could be used to identify students that need support with depression and anx...

Brianna Eckelberry, 33, from West Salem, has been sentenced to one year in prison after pleading guilty to a Class-4 felony for defrauding a drug screening test. During the proceedings in Edwards Coun...

52-year-old Edward Abel of Fairfield who has been imprisoned as a sexually dangerous person since July 2010, is filing a petition for his release, claiming he has recovered. Currently housed at the Bi...

The Edwards County Unit School Board met for their regular monthly meeting last (Thursday) night and here with last night's report is our Edwards County corresponsdent, Mark Curtis.

ALBION CITY PARK OFFICIALS REPORT MYSTERIOUS FISH KILL AT PARK   Albion city officials are looking into a large fish kill that occurred at a pond in Roy Luthe Park. The situation was first notice...