Category Archives: Local News

The Wayne County Sheriff’s Merit Commission is accepting applications for the position of both full-time & part-time Correctional Officer, with an immediate full-time position to be hired. ...

Simmons Prepared Foods Inc. is recalling approximately 26,550 pounds of TGI Fridays boneless chicken bites products that may be contaminated with extraneous materials, specifically pieces of clear, ha...

Bedford Township as well as the Village of Cisne will be permanently removing the trash dumpsters starting January 1st. Village of Cisne officials say limbs and yard waste will still be allowed be dum...

Fairfield Police Officers conducted their annual Shop with a Cop event Wednesday Evening. Each child received a $100 gift card to shop with at Walmart, and each family also received a ham and some oth...

Officials with Jasper Waterworks report that flushing continues with the system involving Jasper Waterworks. Customers may experience a dip in water pressure as well as a discoloration in the water. O...

Reduced Rate Lab Testing with Fairfield Memorial Hospital's Laboratory Department will take place January 8th - January 27th. There will be five convenient locations to choose from: Fairfield Memorial...

The office of Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias is revealing the 2023 license plate naughty list. More than 300 vanity and personalized license plates were rejected this year after being d...

A man was found dead in his jail cell in Jefferson County earlier this morning. At 3:14am, a member of the jail staff found detainee, 27-year-old Jacob A. Hunsell of Waltonville unconscious and unresp...

The West Salem Village Board met Monday for their final session in 2023. Mayor Jeffrey Bradham thanked the West Salem Development Association, The West Salem Volunteer Fire Department Association, Are...

A district judge sentenced two men to each spend ten years in federal prison after both were charged in a law enforcement sting to detect online child predators. Timmy Wayne Smith, 59 of McLeansboro a...