Clinton County News

The Illinois economy and budget problems continue to spark most of the conversation in district meetings this week, according to State Senator Kyle McCarter.

Those who lead the Community Christmas campaign have to thrive on the holiday spirit of helping other people.

Area Republican leaders are offering their support to Conservative Party candidate Douglas Hoffman in the race for the 23rd Congressional District.

Staff Report MT. VERNON - A total of 53 arrest warrants have been issued in conjunction with federal indictments handed down for an alleged heroin/cocaine distribution ring which operated in Jefferson and Marion counties.

A woman suspected of the murder of her 3-year-old son in January gave birth Friday to another child.

A former area man could get life in prison if convicted of repeatedly sexually assaulting his stepdaughter and daughter over a period of several years in several different Illinois communities.

An East Carondelet woman is accused of drunkenly causing a May wreck in southern Illinois that killed four people.

An East Carondelet woman has been charged with felony drunken driving in connection with a crash that killed four people near Keyesport.

A jury returned guilty verdicts on all three counts Wednesday night in the case of a man who visited a lifetime of sexual assault on his stepdaughter and daughter, even after the defendant took the stand to deny it all.

Authorities pulled the body of a man who drowned over the weekend from the Kaskaskia River in southern Illinois.

A Highland man in his mid-50s is missing and presumed drowned after he disappeared while swimming in the Kaskaskia River on his birthday Saturday.

A Chicago woman was sentenced Thursday in a Benton courtroom to more than seven years in prison for intending to distribute heroin.

Controlled pheasant hunting opportunities will be available at 18 Illinois Department of Natural Resources sites this fall, and the 2009-10 season dates and permit reservation information are now available online.

Controlled pheasant hunting opportunities will be available at 18 Illinois Department of Natural Resources sites this fall, and the 2009-10 season dates and permit reservation information are now available online.

In addition to celebrating the lives of cancer survivors and the memories of cancer victims, the Clinton County Relay for Life will offer to people who have never had cancer the chance to participate in an important national survey.

A night ride back from the Clinton County Fair in Carlyle, Illinois took us through Trenton, Illinois over the weekend.

Josh Melton was remembered as a loving father and husband, a fisher, a hunter and a man who liked to play with remote control cars.

The body of a Germantown, Illinois soldier returned home Thursday. Staff Sgt. Josh Melton was killed in action in Afghanistan last week.

CARLYLE, Ill. - Leon K. Marcum of Centralia, Ill., faces a felony charge of leaving the scene of a fatal accident in a crash that killed a bicycle rider near Sandoval early Sunday morning.

A procession accompanying the body of Staff Sgt. Joshua Melton will course through Clinton County today.