Ashland News

Steven Watkins was the type of guy who would do anything to help someone in need, a longtime friend of his parents recalls.

A little girl whose father was slain in Ashland more than five months ago has been taken out of Illinois by her mother, who may be under investigation by the Department of Children and Family Services.

A 43-year-old Springfield man was killed Thursday in a head-on crash on Illinois 125 between Pleasant Plains and Ashland.

On Saturday evening, they filed into the Chesapeake Seafood House - 15 of them, all but one with gray hair, some of the men in suits and ties.

C Central, Winchester, Virginia looking for volunteer board members. April 14, 2009 - 11:58 AM By KATIE ANDERSON Journal-Courier Three area school districts are seeking volunteers to fill board seats left open after the April 7 election.

Steven Paul Watkins lived - and died - for his daughters, his family says. If Watkins hadn't loved his daughter Sidney, he wouldn't have been shot in the back of the head three months ago at the home of his ...

Billed as "perpetually six months clean and sober," comedian Andy Dick headlines iO on Thursday as part of the "Del Close 75th Birthday" weeklong celebration in honor of the 10th anniversary of the passing of ...

Gabrielle Dinardo was among about 3,000 boisterous fifth-graders reveling in the moment Wednesday before the start of an original play about Abraham Lincoln's Springfield.

Police served a search warrant Thursday at an Ashland home where a Chandlerville man was gunned down two days before Thanksgiving.

A Cass County, Illinois coroner's jury rules the death of a 32 year old Chandlerville, Illinois man is a homicide.

A Chandlerville man shot to death at his estranged wife's home in Ashland nearly two months ago died from a single gunshot wound to the back of his head, the Cass County coroner told a coroner's jury at an ...