Fulton County News

Persistent rain has resulted in a corn planting season that's even worse than the one caused by last year's devastating Midwestern floods, experts say.

DeKALB – A DeKalb County woman was being held Tuesday in the Fulton County Jail in Lewistown on charges of aggravated assault to a correction officer and reckless driving.

WMBD/WYZZ - KNOX COUNTY -- A Galesburg woman was killed in a motorcycle accident Saturday afternoon in Fulton County.

Location: Fulton County, IL between Banner and Little America. Rice Lake was closed to boating, but it didn't stop fishing from the "pushed back shoreline", Sara, Hunter and Chris...were not going to let the floods ruin their long weekend! Add a comment Name: Comment: 250 Characters Left WEEK News 25 and its affiliated companies are not responsible ...

Fulton county sheriff's police have positively identified another victim who drown this weekend in the Spoon River.

Fulton County Coroner Steve Hines says the man whose vehicle was pulled out of Spoon River Monday afternoon died from drowning.

A man is dead after authorities found him in a vehicle submerged in flood waters about a half mile east of the Spoon River.

Emergency Rescue Crews are in Fulton County where a motorist apparently has been swept away by flood waters.

In Bartonville, U-S 24 remains open but the water keeps creeping up over parts of the roadway.

The National Weather Service has issued a flood warning for the Spoon River at London Mills, affecting Knox and Fulton counties.

Sean A. Poore, 30, of 809 Highview St., Creve Coeur, was arrested about 11:40 a.m. Saturday in the 1900 block of West Antoinette Street and booked on charges of possessing a controlled substance and possessing drug paraphernalia.

They say you can't fight city hall but a Canton city councilman is going to try.

A first-degree murder charge dropped against accused child killer Timothy L. Walton in exchange for a plea to a lesser charge was decried Wednesday by an abuse advocate as an "injustice." Walton, who was originally charged with first-degree murder and aggravated battery of a child, pleaded guilty Tuesday to the lesser charge and was sentenced to 12 ...

This time of year many people are well into fitness programs they started in January.

White gown. Red heels. Blue body board. White ambulance. And she was the lucky one.

John and Jenni Markello know they're the lucky ones. The Canton couple watch as their 8-month-old son, Parker, gets up on all fours in that "I'm ready to start crawling" position, and they know their little bundle of joy has come a long way since suffering a head trauma when he allegedly was shaken by a caretaker.

If you were to snap an extremely long plumb line between Chicago and Kansas City, Mo., it very well could land on this tiny burg in Fulton County.

Gary R. Mishler, 55, of rural Marietta was arrested about 12:34 p.m. Saturday and charged with aggravated discharge of a firearm, unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon and criminal damage to property.

Clayberg Nursing Home in Cuba has a new interim administrator who says the facility will continue on its path to a resident-centered facility and away from its former institutional style.

OF THE JOURNAL STAR Posted Apr 08, 2009 @ 09:59 PM Kim Gilstrap doesn't plan to ask for a recount in the race for Farmington mayor, which she lost by just 10 votes to incumbent Bud Stobaugh.