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The Wayne County Board will meet Thursday night at 7 at the Wayne County Courthouse. Items on the agenda include; Michelle Richards and Kris Parrent from the

Illinois Eastern Community Colleges received high marks from Intelligent.com, as the education research website ranked Frontier Community, Lincoln Trail, Olney Central and Wabash Valley among the top community colleges in Illinois and the nation.  

Illinois Eastern Community Colleges received high marks from Intelligent.com, as the education research website ranked Frontier Community, Lincoln Trail, Olney Central and Wabash Valley among the top community colleges in

Illinois Eastern Community Colleges received high marks from Intelligent.com, as the education research website ranked Frontier Community, Lincoln Trail, Olney Central and Wabash Valley among the top community colleges in Illinois and the nation.  

(OLNEY/NEWTON) The Illinois Eastern Community Colleges Board of Trustees met for its regular monthly meeting i...

The IECC Boars of Trustees met for their normal session Tuesday Evening. Early in the meeting, the board recognized the Wabash Valley College Men's Baseball

Early voting for the June Primary Election in Illinois begins tomorrow, but Wayne and some surrounding counties still have outstanding objections for their ballots, including for House District 116. Early voting hours at the Wayne County Courthouse will be 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on weekdays from tomorrow through June 17th, but any early vote scanned into the polling machine will be final, even if the ballot later changes. In Edwards County, early voting will not be open until next week due to objec...

40-year-old Mt. Vernon resident Eric W. Jones and 34-year-old Missouri resident Zachary J. Wheeler were arrested Monday by Wayne County deputies and Fairfield police. Jones was wanted on a Wayne County failure to appear warrant for battery, and Wheeler was arrested on charges of possession of drug paraphernalia and possession and possession with intent to deliver between 15 and 100 grams of methamphetamine. Wheeler was also wanted on two active Missouri warrants. The two were taken to the Wayne ...

White County Circuit Judge T. Scott Webb has again ruled Illinois’ FOID card is unconstitutional, setting the stage for the state Supreme Court to again examine the matter. In 2017, Vivian Brown was charged with violating the FOID card law by owning a rifle without a card; White County sided with her then, but, after an appeal to the Supreme Court, it opted not to make a decision last year. The USDA has released Illinois county estimates for the 2020 hay harvest. Wayne County was estimated to...

(OLNEY/NEWTON) The Illinois Eastern Community College Board of Trustees held its reorganizational meeting at t...