Gallatin County News

A Kentucky man is dead after a fall in Gallatin County. It happened Wednesday morning near Ridgway.

An Army veteran being held on charges that he threatened a shooting rampage at a Veterans Affairs hospital in southern Illinois has a history of menacing behavior involving family and firearms, court records show.

An Army veteran remained jailed Wednesday after he was arrested with a loaded handgun outside an Illinois Veterans Affairs hospital where he warned a nurse he was armed and was "going to fill that place with lead," court documents show.Mark Harmon, 29, of Shawneetown, Ill., had told a nurse by telephone late last Thursday that he was headed to her ...

SEP 25 -- A. Courtney Cox, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that a Federal Grand Jury sitting in East St.

The gimmick is aimed at promoting the nearby Ohio River village of Old Shawneetown, which next July 1 will become the first town in Illinois to celebrate its bicentennial.

A southern Illinois sheriff accused of selling marijuana, often while on duty, is bargaining with federal prosecutors about a possible plea deal.

GALLATIN COUNTY, Ill.-- Thousands of bikers are headed to the region this weekend for the Old Shawneetown and Little Sturgis motorcycle street rallies.

Residents of the small Gallatin County, Ill., communities of Equality and Eldorado have joined together to support the Charles and Margaret Hult family A June 4 wreck claimed the lives of two family members and left four others badly injured in Gallatin, Ill.

Gallatin Co. Sheriff Raymond Martin pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal drug charges.

A southern Illinois sheriff charged with trafficking marijuana, including while on duty, will not lose his job unless he's convicted or resigns, county officials said Wednesday.

Up-and-coming rapper Dolla was killed in a shooting at an upscale shopping mall, and a man was arrested for investigation of murder, police said Tuesday.

At a brief detention hearing Wednesday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Philip Frazier granted a U.S. attorney's motion to detain Martin, 46, of Junction, until his trial.

Gallatin County Courthouse is seen, Tuesday, May 19, 2009 in Shawneetown, Ill. Federal prosecutors are accusing the longtime sheriff of a county in southeastern Illinois of selling marijuana, often while on duty.

He was arrested without incident Monday afternoon at his office in Shawneetown. Raymond M. Martin, 46, of Junction, Ill., faces three counts of distribution of marijuana and two counts of carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime.

The Gallatin County, Illinois, sheriff faces drug-related charges. 46-year-old Raymond Martin has been charged in a Criminal Complaint filed in U.S. District Court.

It's fitting that the likeness of the late Rudy Phillips is on a boxcar in the center of town.