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Matt Ryerson/The Hawk Eye People watch as T.J. Ramsey of North Liberty and his friend crack open a 14-inch geode for the Sharf family during the Hard Rock Geode Dig Saturday in Hamilton, Ill.

Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 10:03 a.m. The City of Hamilton will be spraying for Mosquito Control beginning tonight, June 25, 2009 and will continue about every 10 days or so throughoutA the summer as time and weather permits.A Spraying will start at approximately dusk until around 1am.A HAMILTON, ILL -- A Residents can help eliminate mosquitoes by ...

The Worthern Earth Searchers of Hancock County will present a Hard Rock Geode Dig during this year's Hamilton Homecoming Days on June 26, 27 and 28.

CNN talk show host and author Larry King signs copies of his new autobiography, "My Remarkable Journey," at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, May 30, at The Book Stall, 811 Elm St., Winnetka.

Marshall Huff, 18, was driving a 1994 Ford Probe east on U.S. 136 when the car left the road about 500 feet past County Road 1500 East.

Old Canal Days will return in June, bringing entertainment, arts and crafts, food and family fun to downtown Lockport.

Recuperation for two Keokuk men who were stabbed during a fight over a barbecue grill will have to include legal representation.

The effort by a Hancock County American Indian to amend the state's 15-month-old smoking ban has cleared a hurdle in the Illinois Legislature.

Hancock County Board member Randy White of Hamilton, Ill., announced his candidacy for lieutenant governor of Illinois this week.

Thursday, March 26, 2009 at 5:26 p.m. Two men are in the hospital and one man is behind bars after a stabbing at a Hamilton mobile home park.

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Hamilton, Illinois will be the center of a rare an unusual auction Friday. Sullivan Auctioneers LLC will hold a machine auction.A Older, low hour equipment from the 1980's and older will be up for grabs.A That ...

One of the great joys of covering the arts is that if you ask musicians to play something for you as you're researching a story, they'll nearly always oblige.

Carlos W. Jones, 34, Edwardsville, Kan., at midnight Saturday on a city warrant charging failure to appear in court.

Sunday, February 08, 2009 at 10:18 p.m. In Quincy, residents who live on 7th and 8th Streets, between Elm, College, and Oak Street, must boil your water for 48 hours.A This is due to a water main break at 7th ...

Wednesday, January 21, 2009 at 3:59 p.m. WASHINGTON D.C. -- A group of students from Hamilton High SchoolA is onA its way home from Washington D-C . They spent the last few days in Washington D-C and attended ...

The St. Clair County Sheriff's Department was out in force during the holiday weekend and arrested several people accused of drunken driving.

A 60-foot-long walking bridge rated for an 80,000-ton load is difficult to put in a Christmas stocking, but metaphorically, that is exactly what Bob McDowell of Keokuk, Iowa, has done for the Hamilton Community ...

Hamilton police are trying to figure out who broke into the Hamilton Elementary SchoolA Monday morning.

Here's a KHQA Alert for residents in Hamilton, Illinois and beyond. Police Chief Sellens has coined it, "the grandparent scam." Here's what happens: A scammer calls people, claiming to be a grandson or close ...