Wayne County News

The Illinois State Police and Wayne County Sheriff's Office are investigating the death of a former Bluford resident.

William H. Faberman, 40, has been lodged in the Wayne County Jail on preliminary charges of anhydrous ammonia tampering and aggravated fleeing and eluding.

A young Wayne County, IL, bowhunter died Thursday night after being by his 16-year-old hunting partner, according to an employee of Nales Funeral Home in Fairfield.

A Columbia, Mo., couple escaped injury Friday afternoon when their small airplane made an emergency landing in a soybean field in a remote area of southern Wayne County, Ill.

As a sheriff's deputy pulled onto the parking lot of the Huck's Convenient Store about 3 a.m. Tuesday, he spotted Kent M. Harper, 31, and knew he was wanted on a local warrant.

As a sheriff's deputy pulled onto the parking lot of the Huck's Convenient Store about 3 a.m. Tuesday, he spotted Kent M. Harper, 31, and knew he was wanted on a local warrant.

Thunderstorms moved through the Tri-State overnight, bringing heavy rain and gusty winds to the area.

Catharine L. Miller, 33, of Mechanicsburg, Pa., was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court at East St.

A neighbor called the Wayne County Sheriff's Department at 3:15 a.m. to report the fire.