Franklin County News

An underground southern Illinois coal mine will close by the end of the year. Knight Hawk Coal says the 50 workers at the Royal Falcon mine near the boundary of Franklin and Jackson counties will be offered transfers to the company's Prairie Eagle site near Cutler, in nearby Perry County.

Authorities say Shannon Wilfong abducted her son Ricky Chekevdia nearly two years ago during a custody dispute with the boy's father Mike Chekevdia.

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

A suspect has been charged with in the death of an eastern Missouri woman whose body was found in a trash bin.

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West Frankfort police Chief Jeff Tharp returned to Franklin County from Colorado.

Murder charges have been filed against the couple in that deadly shooting in West Frankfort.

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

Franklin County authorities are searching for a man and woman as persons of interest in a double murder that occurred yesterday.

Two Franklin County women found murdered in their home will be laid to rest this weekend.

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

Police have released the pictures of two people of interest in a double homicide in West Frankfort.

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.

Early Saturday morning firefighters from across Franklin County battled an oil field fire for hours.

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

The Illinois State Fire Marshal's office is investigating an early morning fire in Franklin County.

The nonstop rain has made life difficult for many, but local farmers may be getting the worst of it because the wet weather is now affecting their harvest.

Two Franklin County men were injured in a Thursday morning car accident. The accident happened at Logan Road and Sanders Lane northeast of West Frankfort.

Four men are in Franklin County Jail today after a weekend fight that police say was racially motivated.

A southern Illinois man was killed Wednesday night at the Sugar Camp Mine off Thompsonville Road in Franklin County.