Johnston City News

Ottawa's Robbie Iverson answered the call Saturday. The 17-year-old Marquette High School juniortook the laurels at the 33rd Annual World Goose Calling Championship inEaston, Md., beating out more than 30 other competitors - most of whom were much older than he - to claim title as the globe's best goose caller.

U.S. Senator Dick Durbin and Governor Pat Quinn are endorsing the use of a western Illinois prison, to house suspected terrorists who are currently being held at Guantanamo Bay.

Services will be Tuesday for a southern Illinois teenager killed in a weekend rollover wreck caused when her mother swerved to avoid a deer.

An accident in Williamson county took the life of a local teen. The accident happened on Monroe rd.

A 15-year-old Johnston City girl is dead after the car she was riding in veered off the road to avoid hitting deer.

A weekend stabbing sends one Johnston City man to the hospital and another to jail.

Dozens of workers in a southern Illinois coal mine are hoping an administrative law judge gives their mine the go-ahead to resume full operations.

Hundreds of people in southern Illinois are now protected from the H1N1 virus. The first of several scheduled clinics took place Friday morning.

Preliminary autopsy results reveal the two women found dead Monday afternoon in their home in West Frankfort were shot in the head.

Funeral arrangements have been made for one of the women killed in the double homicide in West Frankfort.

A former Johnston City police chief plans to run for Williamson County Sheriff. Democrat Bennie Vick announced his candidacy this morning in Johnston City.

To recycle or not to recycle is the growing controversy in a local city Williamson County just launched its recycling program two months ago, but one commissioner says it costs taxpayers money and only benefits two companies.

JOHNSTON CITY, IL, September 11, 2009 /Cambridge Who's Who/ -- Carolyn Marie Massengill, Rehabilitation Nurse for the Illinois Department of Rehabilitation Services, has been recognized by Cambridge Who's Who for demonstrating dedication, leadership and excellence in rehabilitation nursing.

JOHNSTON CITY, Ill.-- Detectives returned to the scene of a pair of fires that destroyed a block of the downtown business district.

Investigators are back on the scene of an arson fire investigation in Johnston City.

With Labor Day weekend right around the corner, local police are stepping up patrols in an effort to keep area highways a little safer.

The Williamson County Sheriff's department is trying to locate two sex offenders who are not in compliance.

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Johnston City- The West Nile virus has turned up in Williamson County. The Franklin Williamson Bi-County Health Department reports a pool of infected mosquitoes at the southern edge of Johnston City.

David Wilson wasn't interested in making a career out of farming. After spending much of his youth raising cattle, shoveling manure and baling hay, Wilson traded in his cowboy boots, hat and farm-living ways to go to medical school.