Benton News

George Harrison first visited the U.S. a half-year before the British Invasion. This fall, his sister Louise will mark the 50th anniversary of his visit.

A Benton, Illinois woman faces aggravated driving under the influence of alcohol charges after a deadly crash on April 13.

Patrick Vaughan, 19, reported the incident to Fairfield Police on Thursday, saying he was terrified of the perpetrators and too shaken up to have come forward earlier.

A Benton woman has been charged for her role in a fatal traffic accident. Melissa M. Beasley, 29, of Benton, was indicted by a Franklin County grand jury on four counts of aggravated driving under the influence of alcohol.

The gallows used to hang an infamous prohibition-era gangster in one of America's last public executions have been discovered in a dusty old barn.

A southern Illinois county where a bootlegging gangster became the last person to be publicly hanged in the state has recovered the biggest piece of history from that event - the gallows from which Charlie Birger swung in 1928.

Residents in Benton got the chance to raise money for a good cause on Saturday, while throwing a pie in a mayors face.

The mayor of Bridgeport, Ill., entered a guilty plea Wednesday to three counts of mail fraud and one count of obstruction of justice.

Officials are investigating a fire Wednesday morning in Benton. The Benton Fire Department was called to the Webster Street Apartments at 418 W. Webster at 5:24 a.m. Fire departments from West Frankfort, Ewing-Northern, West City and Buckner also helped.

John Malkovich is the most inscrutable of characters. At 59, the acclaimed actor, who is here to perform in Michael Sturminger's long running, hard-hitting chamber theater production-cum-opera , appears to be pretty comfortable in his own skin.