Benton News

A. Courtney Cox, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on October 19, 2009, Terrell PORTER , age 30, and Telly LEWIS , age 33, both of Alton, Illinois, were sentenced in United States District Court, Benton, Illinois, following their guilty pleas to Conspiracy to Distribute and Possess with Intent to ...

Authorities in southern Illinois' Franklin County say they're looking for two people in connection with the shooting deaths of two woman found.

This morning we're finding out more about the balloon incident in Colorado. On The Breakfast Show you'll hear new sound from the boy thought to have been inside the wayward weather balloon yesterday over the plains of Colorado.

Police are searching for a missing Benton, Illinois high school student. Police say after more than 24 hours, there are still no leads as to Corrisa Gardner whereabouts which has her mother and family worried.

An Army veteran remained jailed Wednesday after he was arrested with a loaded handgun outside an Illinois Veterans Affairs hospital where he warned a nurse he was armed and was "going to fill that place with lead," court documents show.

After 26 years of teaching, Virginia 'Nan' Colvin still never saw it coming. Colvin recently received the honor of Middle School Teacher of the Year representing Benton Middle School.

A $10,000 reward is being offered by a company that lost 10 oil tanks in a weekend fire in southern Illinois that authorities are terming suspicious.

State fire marshals are investigating a possible case of arson, that took place early Saturday morning on Benton Field Road in rural Franklin County.

Federal mine-safety officials are investigating a contractor's death in a fall at a coal mine being developed in Southern Illinois' Franklin County.

Two men accused of robbing Mid-Country Bank in Benton, Illinois August 13th appeared before a judge in the Franklin County Courthouse for their preliminary hearing today.

BENTON, Ill.-- It's a job that some have resigned out of sheer boredom: Illinois Lieutenant Governor.

Jolee Smith chats with Michael Linebaugh during their personal finance class at Benton High School.

Grand Jury Supersedes Its Indictment Against Doctor from Energy, Illinois, on Charges of Obstruction of Justice, Illegal Dispensation of Controlled Substances, and Witness Tampering The United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Illinois announced today that on September 9, 2009, the district court returned a 12-count indictment ...

BENTON, Ill.- The boy police found hidden in a crawlspace in Franklin County Friday will remain in the custody of the Department of Children and Family Services.

A father and son could be reunited as soon as Tuesday, two years after the boy's disappearance.

Authorities have arrested Danielle Wilfong, 24 of Elkville, IL, in connection to the 2007 abduction of her nephew.

Share + Sep 8, 2009 1:27 pm US/Central BENTON, Ill. A child whose mother is accused of hiding him in a crawl space in his grandmother's home for nearly two years during a custody dispute remains in state custody.

A boy allegedly abducted in a custody dispute nearly two years ago has turned up alive, hiding with his mother in a small, specially built secret room at his grandmother's Illinois home, investigators said.

In this Aug. 2007 photo provided by Michael Chekevdia, Richard Chekevdia poses at a wedding in West... In this Aug.

Police expect to charge two suspects Tuesday in connection with an armed bank robbery last month in Collinsville.