Category Archives: Local News

    Wayne County Sheriff's Deputies Friday afternoon (July 13th) at approximately 1:20 responded to a report of a subject sitting in a vehicle on County Highway 12 near County Road 1500N. On...

The Olney Central College Theater is hosting a series of Free Movie Nights every Tuesday night through the end of the month IN THE Dr. JOHN D. Stull Performing Arts Center. Tomorrow (Tuesday) they wil...

  The Edwards County Unit School District has set the registration dates for the upcoming 2024/25 school year. For K-12 and West Salem Grade School, online registration begins Friday, July 19th. ...

  Former Fairfield Mules football player, Camden Robbins, a redshirt Sophmore along with three other team members of the Murray State Racers were among 50 student-athletes that earned the highest...

  Illinois State Police (ISP) Division of Criminal Investigation Zone 7 arrested 38-year old Tyler Mezo of Herrin, IL, for First-Degree Murder (Class M Felony).   On Saturday (July 13, 2024)...

    Fairfield Police just before 2 o'clock this (Monday) morning arrested a Fairfield woman, 36-year-old Aydreian Hooper on a charge of Endangering the Life or Health of a Child. Hooper was ...

  The Clay County Fair is set to begin on Friday, starting at 4 pm with the 4-H BBQ at the REA building. Following this, gates will open at 5:30 pm for the Crain Scates Bucking Bulls Rodeo, hoste...

    A Mt. Vernon resident, 48-year-old-Stephen Matthew Warren was apprehended on charges related to firearms and drugs following the execution of a search warrant by the Mt. Vernon Police De...

  The Fairfield Public School District along with Jasper, New Hope and Geff School Districts are conducting Child Find/Preschool Screenings for 3 to 5-year-old children. The screenings will be he...

    The Wayne County Democratic Party will meet Wednesday, July 17th, 6:30pm at the Fairfield Elks Lodge. On the agenda are the organizing of upcoming events including a free Tropical Sno ho...