Category Archives: Local News

(SPRINGFIELD) -- Illinois is coming off a record-breaking youth deer hunting season. Officials say Illinois youth deer hunters set a new record for the season, harvesting a preliminary total of more t...

  Grady Simpson is this year's Fairfield Community High School Homecoming King, and the Queen is Kenzie Turner. It is believed to be the FIRST time in school history that the older sister crowned...

Ashley Thompson of Grayville has been chosen as one of several volunteers to help decorate the White House for Christmas this year. Thompson is the wife of Grayville Mayor and Fire Chief Travis Thomps...

The Center Street School Board of Education will hold its regular monthly meeting on Monday night, October 20th at 6 p.m. in the Center Street School Boardroom. Board members are expected to review fi...

Thursday night around 9:17, the Clay County Sheriff's Department responded to a report of a female found unresponsive in a running vehicle outside a local business in Clay City. The caller reported th...

  Forecasters at the National Weather Service in Paducah, Kentucky say the southern Illinois region has a small chance for strong to possibly severe thunderstorms to develop later this afternoon ...

Carmi Police arrested a Carmi man Thursday night following a traffic stop. Reports from White County say 51 year old David Simmons was arrested on preliminary charges of Possession of Cannibis in a Mo...

Birth to Five has awarded an extra $2.5 million to Early Childhood Collaborations across the state of Illinois. The funding intends to help improve systems for young children and their families in 35 ...

40-year-old, Amanda Ball of Fairfield, was sentenced Thursday in Wayne County Circuit Court to seven years in the Illinois Department of Corrections followed by one year of mandatory supervised releas...

Two individuals were arrested by local authorities Thursday afternoon on separate incidents. 24-year-old, James A. Bailey was arrested on a charge of domestic battery. He was lodged in the Wayne Count...