Category Archives: Local News

(Palestine) -- A Palestine man was arrested following an investigation into a domestic dispute. According to Crawford County Sheriff, Bill Rutan, forty-three-year-old Brent Wiseman was arrested yester...

(Undated) -- The Robinson Police Department is reporting the arrests of two people in unrelated cases. On Wednesday after an investigation, RPD officers arrested Michael Donelson of Charleston on a Sa...

(Undated) -- A Robinson man was arrested and charged with DUI following a traffic stop just after midnight Wednesday. According to the Sheriff's Department, John Delacruz was taken into custody and bo...

(Undated) -- Tax season is here and the Better Business Bureau says scammers are out in full force. BBB Investigator, Don O'Brien, says scammers are posing as the IRS and trying to mislead Illinois re...

(Undated) -- The national average for a gallon of regular unleaded has ticked higher since Monday. According to GasBuddy.com, the national average is $3.13 a gallon, up a dime from Monday. Here in Ill...

(Oblong) -- The Oblong Unit 4 Board meets tonight and they have several items on the agenda. In "Old Business," they will hear committee and academic foundation reports. In "New Business," the Unit 4 ...

(Undated) -- Crawford Memorial Hospital took to social media yesterday to highlight the arrival of a very important piece of equipment. The twelve-hundred-pound MRI magnet for the hospital's brand-new...

(Undated) -- Three new names were added to the roster of the Crawford County Jail yesterday. According to jail records, Alisa Chestnut was booked into the county jail on a charge of Unlawful Possessio...

(Undated) - The area has seen several "Watches, Warnings, and Advisories" over the last several weeks, but what does each mean? According to the National Weather Service, a "Watch" is used when the ri...

(Undated) -- The weather outlook for April could slow down "spring planting." According to DTN Ag Meteorologist, John Baranick, April may not be a "great month for field work." Baranick says the first...