Category Archives: Local News

There are a few free swims going on this weekend around the area. Today, there will be a free swim in McLeansboro at the city pool. That swim is being put on by the McLeansboro Kiwanis Club. Tomorrow,...

The Enfield Village Board met for just over an hour Tuesday night for its regular monthly meeting. In the pursuit of a police officer in the wake of the resignation of Mark Worlds, the village has bee...

An Eldorado man has been sentenced to 54 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections in a case that has been going through the Franklin County Courts. Heath M. Dunning was convicted in March of 20...

Severe weather that was originally forecast for the area for Sunday has shifted. According to the latest from the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center, our area has been shifted to the gen...

The Paris Union School district in central Illinois is under investigation. WCIA-TV reports the probe was launched over the unauthorized use of more than three-million dollars of government grants. Th...

The West Nile Virus is now being reported in four Illinois counties this year. The Illinois Department of Public Health says that includes Cook, LaSalle, Morgan and St. Clair counties. Last year, 44 c...

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources is reminding the public and seafood distributors that importing and possessing live red swamp crayfish is banned in the state. Swamp crayfish are also know...

Illinois' unemployment rate continues to drop. The Illinois Department of Employment Security says the state's jobless rate fell point-one-percentage point to four-point-one-percent last month. Non-fa...

The Wayne County Sheriff's Office has continues a methamphetamine sweep they have been conducting through the county this last week via 3 traffic stops. On June 11th, Wayne County Sheriff's officials ...

A Crossville man will be spending the next two years in the Illinois Department of Corrections followed by 6 months of Mandatory Supervised Release after being sentenced in White County Court on Monda...