Anna News

Yesterday Union County States Attorney Tyler Edmonds announced that charges have been filed against a 2nd man in connection with the September 28th attack on 2 elderly women at the First Baptist Church in Anna.

Two men are in jail. One is charged in a church attack; the other with helping that suspect hide.

Willis E. Bates UPDATE: 8:05 p.m. Willis E. Bates is now charged with four counts of attempted murder for the assault of two women at the First Baptist Church in Anna, Illinois.

A break-in at the First Baptist Church in Anna resulted in two church workers being sent to the hospital.

Authorities continue searching for suspects in the assault of two women at a Union County church.

It would be such a joy to bend the truth and say that "The Invention of Lying" lives up to the potential of its inspired premise.

Emergency crews rushed two women to St. Francis Medical Center Monday night after a violent attack in Anna, IL.

A new law in Illinois will give people with disabilities and their families a chance to call 911 operators and give them infomration about their special needs.

The district superintendent in Union County hopes the state comes through with financing soon.

Pat Meller of Anna, who serves on the board of directors for the Union County Historical and Genealogy Society, looks into one of the many glass cases that house Kirkpatrick Brothera s Pottery at the Union County Museum in Cobden.

Sept. 10 will be a special day in downtown Glen Ellyn. That night, shops downtown will participate in Fashion's Night Out, a global pep rally sponsored by two fashion icons, Anna Wintour and Diane von Furstenberg.

It's been a rough week for a local family after a Dongola mother and her three children were involved in a car crash.

The city of Anna, Illinois, may soon ask its 55-hundred residents for a sales tax increase to raise more funds for city improvements while lowering its property tax rate.

Author Anna Thomas will be one of the many culinary artisans attending the Epicurean Classic in St.

Catherine Slusarek, 91, of 13799 3540 East St., Spring Valley, died at 7:25 p.m. Wednesday, Aug.

Cairo and Carmi, Illinois have received roughly 16-million dollars to build hospitals in their towns.

In a newly released study, cancer experts have now upgraded tanning beds into the top cancer risk category, saying they are as deadly as arsenic.

The Union county marching band is made from all four Union county schools. Together we will be marching at Disney world in Orlando Florida in March 2010.

Comedian and athlete Josh Blue headlines Zanies' suburban venues this weekend. The winner of the 2006 edition of NBC's "Last Comic Standing" and a member of the United States' 2004 Paralympic Soccer Team, Blue - who has cerebral palsy - has said of his disability, "I realize that people are going to stare, so I want to give them something to stare ...

Two southern Illinois students earn the Jason Lindsey Outstanding Science Student Scholarship.