Category Archives: Local News

The Hamco Food and Brew Fest is set to take place this Saturday from 6 to 9 PM at the Big Red Barn in McLeansboro. Now in its 7th year, the festival will highlight the best food and beer from the regi...

The Boil Water Order for customers in the Village of Mt. Erie has been LIFTED. Residents no longer need to boil water for human consumption as tests results have come back clear and safe.

A Boil Water Order is in effect for the Bt. Prairie Water System from Centreville North and Centreville West to Mill Shoals. Everyone should boil their water for human consumption until further notice...

37-year-old Aydreian D.A. Hooper of Fairfield is scheduled for sentencing this Thursday morning in connection with the hot car death of her 17-month-old son, Aaruan. Last December, Hooper pleaded guil...

(Photo Credit: Jefferson Co. Sheriff's Department FB page)   The Jefferson County Sheriff's Department on Friday afternoon just before 1:30 received reports of a domestic disturbance involving sh...

The Fairfield City Council is set to meet tonight (Tuesday) at Fairfield City Hall with a light agenda. Approval of Minutes from the February 11th and Executive Session Minutes from the January 28th m...

Albion resident, 39-year-old David Andrew Springmeyer was arrested Friday afternoon by the Wayne County Sheriff's Department on a Wayne County warrant for Failure to Appear on an original charge of Un...

Frontier Community College is hosting its final Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) Application Meeting tomorrow from 3:00 to 4:00 PM in Cox Hall, Room 127. Attendance is mandatory for all applicants to...

A 30 by 40-foot wooden barn, believed to date back to the late 1800s, was completely destroyed in an early Sunday morning fire in Jefferson County.   Fire officials reported that the blaze occurr...

  This past Wednesday evening, US Marshals, aided by local law enforcement, successfully apprehended a wanted Indiana man , 40-year-old Justin Walters at the Road Ranger in Grayville. Walters was...