Clinton County News

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.

Kim Smith and her two children spoke with her husband Sergeant Paul Smith just last Thursday.

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Adam Fields and Jamie Boeckmann celebrated their marriage in a traditional Clinton County way.

JUNE 8, 2009 -- View looking northbound on Greenmount Road about a half-mile south of Frank Scott Parkway.

A 20-year-old man was arrested Friday in connection with the robbery at the CC Food Mart on Illinois 127 in Carlyle early Thursday, police said.

Police across the country have reported several highway fatalities that have put a damper on the Memorial Day weekend.

A group of Cinton County young people are mourning the passing of three young men who were part of a close knit group; an outgoing football hero with a promising future, a shy carpenter and a hard-working, community college student.

Illinois State Police are investigating a crash in Clinton County that left three people dead and several others injured.

Authorities in southern Illinois say four people are dead and five others are injured after a two-car crash.

Three people died in a two-vehicle crash late Saturday night or early Sunday morning in Clinton County, Ill., the sheriff's department said.

The Clinton County Sheriff's Department is reporting that three people died in a crash late Saturday night or early Sunday morning near Keyesport.

A 100-mph police pursuit that started in the Centralia area ended early Monday morning near Germantown when the suspect crashed.

A judge in southern Illinois has cleared a man in the shotgun killing of his father last year, ruling that the suspect was mentally ill at the time.

About 50 high schools have sent teams to Carlyle Lake to compete in the state's first Illinois High School Association bass fishing tournament.

Carlyle Lake may be the biggest manmade lake in Illinois, but that doesn't mean its the best in terms of bass fishing.

Cindy Brown wanted to get her partner, Matt Kolb, something special for his 50th birthday, so she had his worn out, dilapidated 1988 Peterbilt truck restored.