White County News

Over the past week, various farm organizations conducted their annual crop yield tours in White, Edwards and Wayne counties with results showing a decent corn crop and the potential for good soybean yields - if timely rains continue through September.

Federal mine safety investigators say an accident that killed a worker at a southern Illinois underground coal mine last year was attributable to management's failure to stress certain safety practices.

Heid, 58, a widely known Southern Illinois criminal defense attorney, collapsed at his home in Enfield sometime after 4 a.m. on Saturday.

Authorities are trying to identify a body found in a burned out truck in White County, IL.

White county is waiting anxiously to see if Governor Pat Quinn will sign the capital spending bill.

29 west of Crossville. The blast killed two workers and injured four others. Brad Cunningham, an Illinois Department of Natural Resources oil well inspector, was badly burned in the blast, and filed suit April 24 in White County Circuit Court at Carmi.

Coal producer Alliance Resource Partners is crediting higher prices for a 68 percent increase in first-quarter profits.

A coal mine accident happens Monday morning White County, Illinois. Our media partner The Princeton Clarion reports three men are injured while operating an underground transportation vehicle at White County Coal's Pattiki Mine southeast of Carmi.

By Staff Report Originally published 11:34 a.m., April 20, 2009 Updated 11:34 a.m., April 20, 2009 Three people were injured in an accident this morning at the Pattiki coal mine southeast of Carmi, Ill., officials with the White County, Ill.

It never ceases to amaze me how the issue of alcohol sales can split a community right down the middle On Tuesday, during Illinois' municipal election, two small Southern Illinois towns put the wet-dry issue to a vote, with two razor-thin decisions that cut both ways.