West Frankfort News

Six Franklin County, Illinois residents face charges in connection to manufacturing and distributing methamphetamine.

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Illinois National Guard soldiers serving in Afghanistan will soon be home. Those troops, out of West Frankfort, are slated to return to the United States in about a month.

Thursday, Jul 2, 2009 * In my opinion, Gov. Quinn has crossed the line Caught in the crossfire are social-service providers who were previously warned by Quinn that dramatic cuts of 50 percent or more would result if lawmakers didn't come up with more money.

By KANDACE MCCOY kandace.mccoy@register-news.com MT. VERNON - Limited funding has been released for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program in Jefferson, Franklin and Williamson counties for the Summer Energy Assistance Program.

A Breese man who police said drove the wrong way on Interstate 64 and caused a four-vehicle crash remain hospitalized Wednesday night.

A local safe haven for abused and neglected children will soon start offering its service.

Driving north along I-57 near West Frankfort you may have noticed mounds of dirt and large machinery.

The fire that destroyed nearly a block in downtown Johnston City has also left residents of an apartment building displaced.

Nearly a city block burned early Sunday morning in Johnston City The fire started about 2 a.m. in the easternmost of four buildings on the 200 block of East Broadway.

WEST FRANKFORT, Ill.-- A Ioop hole in an Illinois traffic law allows drivers to leave the scene of an accident.

Two wrecks near construction zones brought traffic on Interstate 57 in Franklin County to a standstill.

Sandefur is charged with first degree murder in the shooting death of 14-year-old Elizabeth Obrecht.

The war on drugs in southern Illinois has another voice. While it is young, the words are spoken from experience.

In retrospect, turning Controversial Enterprises, a small software design company located in Southern Illinois, green probably wasn't my best idea but it wasn't my worst idea either.

West Frankfort edged Zion-Benton Boat 2 by ounces to win Illinois' first high school bass fishing championship.

Prosecutors in Franklin County charged Austin Sandefur on Thursday with first-degree murder in the death two days earlier of 14-year-old Elizabeth Obrecht.

Update 3:35pm: The 16-year-old boy charged with shooting a 14-year-old West Frankfort girl will be charged as an adult.

Services will be Saturday for an eighth-grader shot and killed in her southern Illinois hometown of West Frankfort.

WEST FRANKFORT, Ill.--Police have identified the victim of a shooting in the 200 block of West 7th Street as 14-year-old Elizabeth Obrecht of West Frankfort.