Waggoner News

For the fifth consecutive year, Western Illinois University has received an Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation grant for energy efficient lighting upgrades on the WIU-Macomb campus.

Western Illinois University conducted a full-scale emergency plan that involved a simulated shooting in Waggoner Hall and a chemical spill in Currens Hall on May 27.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 6:30 p.m. Practice makes perfect; that was the hope behind a full-scale emergency operations exercise on WIU's Macomb Campus Wednesday, May 27th.

New unemployment numbers out Thursday show Illinois is nearing a ten percent jobless rate and as more people struggle to find employment, they may be more more likely to turn to military service.

A Chester County woman who was charged in a fatal drunken-driving crash has violated her bail, prosecutors said yesterday.

Two weeks before commencement, graduates from the College of Education and Human Services can breathe a sigh of relief that they will be entering the one job field still hiring during the economic recession.

Q. About two years ago, I caught the tail end of a movie on Channel 9 and it was called "Sisters." I think it was about seven sisters and two or three brothers who were put up for adoption, and, through the years, they were all looking for each other.

The U.S. Congress designated March as National Women's History Month because it felt women were overlooked.

Carbondale Middle School eighth graders Gene Arnold and Marion Fabbri act out the elements of an extended response under the leadership of Brittany Allgaier, a senior from Carbondale studying elementary ...

An Edwardsville man has been charged with driving under the influence after a fiery wrong-way crash this morning.

As Western Illinois University students gear up for six more weeks of winter, some may begin to feel the onset of seasonal affective disorder.

Two years after the shootings at Virginia Tech, one-year after those at Northern Illinois and in the same year as two threats of gun violence to WIU, local law enforcement officers and emergency responders are ...

A tanker containing a hazardous material load rolled over on Interstate 55 Tuesday morning, closing the left lane on each side of the interstate for more than 13 hours.

WAGGONER, Ill. - A portion of northbound Interstate 55 in central Illinois was closed after a tanker truck hauling corrosive chemicals overturned.

The northbound lane of Interstate 55 near mile marker 66 was shut down while Montgomery County emergency responded to an overturned semi tanker truck spill.

The Rev. Bob Phillips of Main Street United Methodist Church, off to the left, looks on as Lori Warford, dressed as Mary, mother of Jesus, adjusts her costume and talks to Becky Waggoner, who is holding the ...