Fairfield News

A. Courtney Cox, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that on June 25, 2009, April L. SANTIAGO , 30, of Fairfield, Illinois was sentenced in federal district court in Benton on the misdemeanor charge of making False Statements to a Federal Health Care Program.

"Big Load" has been replaced by "World Guy" - at least for now. Perhaps that statement needs a bit of explanation.

The American Lung Association is alerting area residents that they are eligible to receive free Radon Home Test Kits.

The child was found unresponsive in his home and later died at the hospital in Mt.

The Automotive Parts & Services Association of Illinois has awarded six students scholarships for the 2009-2010 academic year.

Illinois Department of Natural Resources Precipitation Significant throughout Illinois in March Snow in the north and rain in the south While northern Illin ois received more snow in March, southern Illinois received heavy rain that resulted in significant flooding.

WMBD/WYZZ PEORIA -- A Fairfield, Illinois company has been convicted of stealing more than $4 million from investors.

By Len Wells Originally published 02:59 p.m., April 27, 2009 Updated 02:59 p.m., April 27, 2009 FAIRFIELD, Ill.

Congressman John Shimkus announced yesterday that former employees of North American Lighting plants in Paris, Salem and Flora are eligible for federal Worker Adjustment Assistance and Alternative Trade Adjustment Assistance.

It was ruled last week that former State Representative Kurt Granberg, of the Carlyle area, will be allowed to keep his pension, and some in Springfield aren't happy about it, including State Senator, John O. Jones.

A trench collapse in Allendale Friday morning sent one man to an Evansville hospital.

Last year on April 18th, thousands of people throughout the state were awakened by shaking from a 5.4 earthquake centered in southeastern Illinois.

A van from the Alton Mental Health Hospital, with three workers and an inmate from the facility on board, wound up stranded in Little Wabash River backwater yesterday morning.

Last Thursday afternoon, at approximately 2:15pm, members of the Flora Police Department, Mt.

The Clay County Sheriff's Department was called to a Xenia man's home Saturday morning at 7:13, at 420 Front Street, on a criminal damage complaint.

Bond has been set at $250,000 for an 18-year-old Xenia man who has been charged with aggravated battery in connection with the death of 46-year-old Terry Jenkins of Xenia.

Still, the Chicago 2016 organizing committee figures a little prodding couldn't hurt.

President Barack Obama says a new report on unemployment in the United States is a "stark reminder" of the global challenges created by the economic crisis.

The largest-ever increase in U.S. tobacco taxes is prompting an unprecedented volume of calls to quit-smoking hot lines, a Seattle firm reports.

Caterpillar is speeding up layoff plans at a central Illinois plant, cutting more than 1,000 jobs two weeks early.