Monroe County News

Local Interagency Councils 5 and 31 will meet from 10 a..m. to noon on Tuesday in Waterloo with speaker Mary E. Tolliver.

Waterloo was awarded four Governor's Home Town Awards on Friday for citizens' ambitious volunteerism at the Executive Mansion in Springfield.

A Belleville mother accused of delivering a baby into a toilet pleaded guilty due to mental illness to attempted first-degree murder Friday morning in Waterloo.

Illinois' attorney general is siding with a family suing their southwestern Illinois school district in hopes of allowing their autistic son to bring his service dog to school.

Carter Kalbfleish's first day at a new school started with smiles and an eagerness to get into his new classroom to check things out, all with his autism service dog, Corbin, leading the way.

Instead of allowing a 5-year-old autistic boy to attend school with his autism service dog as ordered by a Monroe County judge, the Columbia School District has decided the pair should attend a different school altogether.

The man accused of murdering his wife and two sons is asking a judge to find that he is poor so he can receive money to pay his lawyers from a fund used to pay for death penalty cases.

Autism service dog, Chewey, takes a break as he waits for Nichelle Drew and her daughter Kelsey, 7, right, and son Kaleb, 6, to fill up water bottles at the grocery store in Villa Grove, Ill., after Kaleb's first day of school on Friday, Aug.

The attorney defending Christopher Coleman said in a hearing on Wednesday that he became involved in the case within hours of the murders of Coleman's wife and sons.

Vandals have struck in Monroe County, Illinois, causing thousands of dollars in damages to a farmer's corn crop.

An attorney for a southwestern Illinois man accused of strangling his wife and their two sons says he will become certified by the state to handle his client's death penalty case.

The Columbia School District has appealed a Monroe County judge's decision to allow a 5-year-old autistic boy to bring his autism service dog to school.

A Fairmont City man has been charged with felony robbery in connection with a Missouri bank robbery, and police are investigating whether he has any connection to a Hecker robbery where a man left a package he indicated was a bomb.

Few in Hecker knew the Midland States Bank had been held up about 11:30 a.m. Monday until emergency vehicles roared into town a few minutes later.

Few in Hecker knew the Midland States Bank had been held up about 11:30 a.m. Monday until emergency vehicles roared into town a few minutes later.

A Fairmont City man has been charged with felony robbery in connection with a Missouri bank robbery, and police are investigating whether he has any connection to a Hecker robbery where a man left a package he indicated was a bomb.

Few in Hecker knew the Midland States Bank had been held up about 11:30 a.m. Monday until emergency vehicles roared into town a few minutes later.

A southwestern Illinois farm community is enjoying calm again, a day after many of its residents were evacuated over concern that a bank robber left behind a suspected bomb.

The entire village of Hecker in Monroe County remains evacuated as the Monroe County Sheriff and FBI agents investigate a bomb threat.

When one of his roosters began crowing every morning at 3 a.m. and didn't let up until about six hours later, Hank Marquardt, of Valmeyer, figured he had a good shot at reclaiming the title at the Monroe County Fair's annual Rooster-Crowing Contest.