Jackson County News

An underground southern Illinois coal mine will close by the end of the year. Knight Hawk Coal says the 50 workers at the Royal Falcon mine near the boundary of Franklin and Jackson counties will be offered transfers to the company's Prairie Eagle site near Cutler, in nearby Perry County.

An impaired driver careened off the side of Dillinger Road early Wednesday and was injured when his Sports Utility Vehicle flipped over, the Jackson County Sheriff Department reported.

A hiking adventure turns into a search and rescue operation in Jackson County. A Murphysboro man, his 13-year-old daughter and his 9-year-old niece are safe Monday morning after getting lost in the Little Grand Canyon in southern Illinois.

A Murphysboro woman is dead after a crash in rural Jackson County. Deputies say Lori Maramba, 35, was driving west on Route 149 in DeSoto when she crossed into the eastbound lanes and hit a pick up truck.

One person is dead following a two vehicle crash in Jackson county. The wreck happened around 5:30p.m. Thursday evening on Illinois highway 149 just west of South Myers Lane in rural Desoto.

Jackson County families wake up Sunday morning to damaged mailboxes and automobiles.

Two men have been charged with the death of a Dongola man earlier this month. The Union County Sheriff says one man is in custody and the other is at large.

The doors at the first H1N1 flu clinic in Jackson County closed around five Friday night.

Visitation will be held today for an SIUC student who died from injuries suffered in a car accident Monday.

A Carbondale man will spend three decades in prison on charges of stealing a digital camera.

As the flu spreads, folks in some areas are rushing to doctors offices and flooding local pharmacies.

Illinois tax payers want the state to make big budget cuts to fix the money troubles, but they can't agree on what those cuts should be.

One man is dead and another injured after a traffic accident in rural Makanda. The accident happened around 4:30 Monday afternoon on Giant City Road just south of Touch of Nature Road.

Doug Sidie, convicted of fatally shooting his ex-wife is headed to prison for a longer term than was asked for by the prosecution.

Four Marion men are behind bars, charged with residential burglary for two burglaries in the Campbell Hill/Ava area.

Leif Faber, left, a Touch of Nature employee from Makanda, and his wife Junko, center, hold their 9-month-old son Kai as he gets his first flu vaccination at the Health Center Tuesday.

Last night at 11:20 Jackson County Sheriff's Deputy attempted to perform a traffic stop on a vehicle parked in the middle of Arial Drive in Murphysboro.

Dick Verduin is a unique person. He's one of only about two thousand men in this country to be diagnosed with breast cancer this year.

Southern Baptist Minister Sam Foskey and S.J. Creek, a doctoral candidate in sociology, answer a question while serving on a GLBTQ panel Wednesday.

It never ceases to amaze me how small towns in Southern Illinois can find something to celebrate, and that's a good thing.