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Fire crews from both the Woodson and Murrayville volunteer fire departments responded to a call of a structure fire at approximately 7:00 pm after a caller advised West Central Dispatch that his daughter’s bedroom was on fire. Woodson Fire Department Captain David Banks says crews were able to extinguish...

Jacksonville Police and LifeStar EMS were paged out to a building strike at Top Shelf Liquor at approximately 9:30 am. According to a report by Jacksonville Police, 61-year-old Diane E. Vincent of Roodhouse told officers she felt a medical event coming on while behind the wheel of her white SUV and turned off Lincoln Avenue into the parking lot of Top Shelf Liquor in the 1200 block of West Morton Avenue. Vincent said she then started coughing and believed she had passed out. She said when she came to, her vehicle had struck the building.

MORGAN CO., Ill. (WAND) — Illinois State Police report that a property damage crash has caused a ramp closure on I-72 Eastbound at Exit 68. The ramp is expected to be closed for around 2 hours and ISP request that drivers avoid the area and take an alternate route.

Cases filed during March 12-18, 2023. Visit the “Court News” category under the “Community News” tab for other editions. Terry Sloan, 34 of Girard, is charged with possession of less than five grams of meth in connection with a March 12 incident. Dakota Arndt, 22 of...

PITTSFIELD, Ill. — The truck driver training program at John Wood Community College will host an information session at the Southeast Education Center beginning at 6 p.m. on Monday, March 27. The SEC is at 39637 260th Ave., two miles north of Pittsfield on Route 54. The session is...

The Greene County Courthouse will soon have new windows. The Greene Prairie Press reports a project to replace over 100 windows in the courthouse is set to commence at the end of the month. Jun Construction Company of Godfrey will be performing the work. The 1890s era Romanesque Revival Courthouse...

(The Center Square) – The Detroit Police Department is seeking a $22 million increase to its budget in 2024, citing an increase in violent crime. The budget, proposed by Mayor Mike Duggan, would total $389 million, up from $366 million in fiscal year 2023. Most of that funding increase, about $13.5 million, would fund a bump in salaries and wages, while another $10 million would fund employee benefits. Meanwhile, planned...

Jacksonville School District 117’s fund balances appear to be running at a surplus. Superintendent Steve Ptacek says that the balance is up over $6 million at this time: “We have been up between $6-6.5 million this year compared to last year. Last year, we were up $3-4 million. That’s all good news, especially with the year that we drastically increased our expenditures due to salaries, which we needed to, so that absolutely our staff at this time needed to be paid higher. We were anticipating a potential to break even or slight loss [in the budget]. Being up $6 million is really a positive sign that we can do some other projects and upgrades.”

The Jersey County Highway Engineer says pothole repair has not been a major part of their workload so far this year. Tom Klasner tells The Big Z the relatively mild winter has allowed them to focus on general maintenance. Your browser does not support the audio element. That said, if...

A girl was born to Pedro Carbajal and Nereida Ramirez of Quincy at 4:04 p.m. March 11. A boy was born to J.J. Miller of Pittsfield and Destinee Stauffer of Griggsville at 12:01 a.m. March 12. A girl was born to Ryan and Katie Parker of Quincy at 8:18 a.m....

The 2023 Illinois spring trout fishing season opens on April 1st. Nichols Park in Jacksonville will be one of 58 ponds, lakes, and streams throughout the state that will have trout stocked for harvest. Jacksonville Parks Superintendent Adam Fletcher says it gives anglers in the area an opportunity to fish...

Crime Stoppers of Morgan, Scott, & Cass counties are requesting information to assist the Morgan County Sheriff’s Department in an investigation into a recent burglary in rural Morgan County. According to a Sheriff’s Department report, sometime between 7AM and 7PM on Monday, unknown individuals broke a door to a...

The Greene County Board has changed its regular meeting times. The Greene Prairie Press reports that the board has moved its regular business meeting time of the second Wednesday of the month to the second Thursday night of the month. The change will come effective in April. The change was...

Winchester is soon to have its Elm Street confusion sorted out. The city has been working to avoid the confusion of multiple Elm Streets that run parallel to each other near the high school and elementary school. After rescinding an ordinance last month to rename one of the Elm Streets...

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A proposed wind farm in northern Macoupin County appears to be moving forward. Lotus Wind, announced three years ago by Apex Clean Energy, is expected to seek easements in the Modesto, Scottville, Palmyra region of Macoupin County. The project is expected to generate up to 200 megawatts of wind energy, consisting of around 80 turbines.

CONCORD, Ohio – For Caroline Naumann Luhta — nicknamed Connie — “nothing was ever forbidden.”. Growing up in Painesville in the 1930s — the only child of a father who longed for a son — she was showered with gifts of baseball bats and mitts and electric trains. So, when she approached her father about attending college in an era when few women did, he didn’t bat an eye and encouraged her to pursue a degree in chemistry.

Two individuals were arrested by Jacksonville Police after fighting in the parking lot of the Morgan County Courthouse yesterday morning. A Morgan County Sheriff’s Office employee and a passerby in the 300 block of West State Street reported a man and a woman in a physical disturbance to West Central Joint Dispatch at 7:32AM.

Jacksonville School District 117 officials now believe that Washington Elementary’s renovation is now moving ahead on time. Vision 117 Project Manager Bob Roads told the District 117 Board of Education on Wednesday that the top and bottom floors of the school currently are on hold while construction teams are now working on administrative areas on the first floor: “Work is now concentrated on the lobby, admin area, and the new gym. This week the contractors also started road work outside the school. Essentially the way that will work is the excavation is pretty much done now. They will come in with some rock. They won’t put all of the rock in. The masons will then follow up and use that rock road to haul some of their equipment and materials in to finish up the west side of the school. Once the masons are done, the arrow glass will be able to go in and finish the installation of the windows. The one window which won’t be installed is the one window on the west side of the gym. The new electrical panels will actually be lifted through that window down into the basement of the building.”

Unemployment rates were down in all 14 Illinois metro areas in January. One West Central Illinois county is seeing the fallout from a fire, causing the unemployment rate to remain high. The Springfield Metro Area added 3,800 jobs last month for a 3.6% unemployment rate, which was the second largest...