Zeigler News

Jerry Walker of Zeigler, Ill., won the Walmart Bass Fishing League Illini Division tournament on Rend Lake Saturday with a five-bass catch weighing 17 pounds, 13 ounces.

On Earth Day, Gov. Pat Quinn announced a new effort to make the Illinois Executive Mansion a greener place on the inside and the outside - by installing light-emitting diode bulbs and using rain barrels.

Fire has struck a family not once, but twice in the matter of hours. The Eldridge home on Church Road near Zeigler, Ill., caught fire Tuesday around 4:00 p.m., damaging part of the home.

BY RUTHRICE RRICE@TRIBDEM.COM As second bass for Johnstown Symphony Orchestra, Brian Zeigler of Somerset has the height to handle his large instrument.

Editor: As a former Rend Lake Conservancy District board member who served during the early 1990's and as a resident of Waltonville, I can speak from a special perspective about the problems of the conservancy ...

One person was transported to an area hospital following a hit-and-run accident in Zeigler, Tuesday night, police said.

A search of a rural Williamson County residence Tuesday ended in the arrests of four people - two of them juveniles - and recovery of items including weapons that were taken during several Zeigler-area ...

Mike Whitaker, chief deputy of the Franklin County Property Valuation Administrator, said further personnel cuts would hurt his agency's ability to certify the tax roll.

County government employees will probably get a 2 percent pay raise in 2009. County Clerk Guy Zeigler and Sheriff Steve Clark recommended a 3 percent increase for their employees in a Franklin County Fiscal ...

Congrats to Obama To the Editor: At the request of the United Mine Workers, my brother and I were invited to attend a meeting in Carbondale with Barack Obama, who at the time was running for the United States ...

Royalton Police Chief Tim Sanders and his wife escaped a fire at their home just before 2:30 a.m. Friday with no injuries, according to West Frankfort Fire Chief Wes Taylor.