Johnson County News

Johnson County, IL-It may just seem like a bump in the road, but to motorcycle riders like Thomas Legens one section of road on Highway 146 about a mile outside of Vienna sits an accident waiting to happen.

It was a busy day for volunteer firefighters in Johnson County, Illinois as they took on two blazes Sunday.

Verizon Wireless, the wireless company with the highest customer loyalty, has activated a new cell site in Johnson County, which will enable more customers to use their wireless phones concurrently to make calls; send and receive email and text, picture and video messages; access the Internet; view high-quality videos; and download music, games and ...

The number of adults in Illinois with less than a ninth-grade education is growing, and costing the state billions of dollars, the Illinois Community College Board warns.

We now know voters in our area feel about relaxing Illinois gun laws. Thousands of people voted Tuesday in Pope and Johnson Counties, and about 90-percent of them want concealed carry to become reality.

A Creal Springs woman has been convicted of lying about her education level and giving a phony academic transcript to her employer.

Multiple concealed gun bills are being debated in Springfield. And, this spring, voters in Pope and Johnson counties will weigh in on the issue thru ballot referendums.

Robert "Pudgy" Harris is saying an Ottawa attorney cost him almost a year of freedom.

Jackson Purchase Energy continues to work to restore power to the company's 30,000 customers.

Alexander County: Bennett School, Cairo East Cape/McClure Fire Dept Horseshoe Lake Fire Dept Johnson County: Fellowship Baptist Church, Senior Drive, Vienna Simpson Baptist Church, Rte 147, Simpson Massac ...

State officials say an experimental aircraft crashed Wednesday afternoon in Johnson County, injuring the pilot.