Jefferson County News

By KANDACE MCCOY kandace.mccoy@register-news.com MT. VERNON - Four years ago, when Don Bigham moved back to Mt.

A mother and her boyfriend died in an early morning blaze in Jefferson County, Illinois.

Nicholas T. Sheley is walked Wednesday morning out of the Granite City Police department to be transported to Edwardsville.

By KANDACE MCCOY kandace.mccoy@register-news.com MT. VERNON - Jefferson County Sheriff Roger Mulch honored 53 individuals who aided in the search of flood drowning victims Steven Healy and Shannon Allen on ...

A jail monitoring group is concerned that Cook County inmates have become a bumper crop for smaller counties.

Staff Report MT. VERNON - At least 17 residents were arrested Wednesday on drug-related warrants as police held a day-long warrant sweep on Wednesday.

By TESA CULLI tesa.culli@register-news.com MT. VERNON - Vandals damaged a supporting pole and netting at the Brennan Klein Memorial Field at Lincoln Park last weekend.

Sara Douglas says she and her boyfriend were walking her dog along train tracks in rural Jefferson County when they heard some whimpering and found a dog food bag under a bridge with eight tiny puppies inside.

By TESA CULLI tesa.culli@register-news.com MT. VERNON - When Lori McKenzie went outside Sunday afternoon to feed her kittens, she discovered one of them had gotten itself into a terrible predicament - its head ...

Staff Report MT. VERNON - With just a few weeks of summer vacation under way for school children, Gov.

By KANDACE MCCOY kandace.mccoy@register-news.com MT. VERNON - One local church recently celebrated a milestone - for the past 35 years, Mike Sheets has been the minister of Meadowbrook Christian Church.

The Joint Mt. Vernon Police Department/Jefferson County Sheriff's Office Joint Narcotics Unit seized 765 cannabis plants with a street value of between $250,000 and $750,000. According to information from ...

Police arrested a Texico man after finding 765 Cannabis plants on his property. Judson Ray Connaway, 20, of Texico faces a felony charge of Cultivation of more than 50 Cannabis Plants.

Sentencing will be in July for one of three teenagers charged in a fire that left a Jefferson County school badly damaged.

By KANDACE MCCOY kandace.mccoy@register-news.com MT. VERNON - Though no formal complaints have been filed through Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan's office, a traveling antique roadshow which made stops ...

By KANDACE MCCOY kandace.mccoy@register-news.com MT. VERNON - The Southern Illinois Miners are lining up to bat in a big way.

By TESA CULLI tesa.culli@register-news.com BENTON - The Rend Lake Conservancy District board, with a split vote, decided to enter into a contract with CDM for limited construction engineering services on the ...

A Benton woman's propensity to call 911 landed her - and her husband - in Franklin County Jail over the weekend.

A Mt. Vernon man was killed Friday night after losing control of his motorcylce about 1/2 mile south of Illinois 148 on Nason Lane.

By KANDACE MCCOY kandace.mccoy@register-news.com MT. VERNON - With last year marking the 30th anniversary of the National Court-Appointed Special Advocates Association, and the Jefferson County CASA seeing the ...