Saline County News

NEWS 25 learns the remaining three children of Terry Lay & Amanda Brooks are now up for adoption.

A Saline County deputy has been placed on administrative leave after firing his gun during an arrest.

A southern Illinois school district is closed until early next week because of what's being called an outbreak of a flu-like illness affected nearly 300 students.

Venice's former police chief was charged with official misconduct and felony theft for selling city vehicles and pocketing the money, and stealing more than $20,000 from a club for Venice police officers, according to prosecutors.

A southern Illinois judge has put Gov. Pat Quinn's planned state layoffs on hold.

Governor Pat Quinn's planned state layoffs are on hold. Saline County Judge Todd Lambert issued a preliminary injunction sought by a major union to block Quinn's push to lay off some 2,600 state workers Monday morning.

A man who served on a southern Illinois grand jury is accused of leaking sealed information from the secret proceedings.

Kristine L. Fell, 33, was airlifted from the scene to St. Mary's Medical Center for treatment of major injuries.

An Indiana woman who escaped from a Carrier Mills squad car while handcuffed is now in the Saline County Jail, said Carrier Mills Police Chief Bill Duncan.

A major union's lawsuit meant to block Gov. Pat Quinn's plan to lay off about 2,600 state employees is scheduled to be taken up by a southern Illinois judge.

Two people are injured after a rollover crash in Saline County Thursday morning.

The new charges follow a criminal indictment handed down in early July of this year.

A Saline County man is in jail accused of 90 counts of sexual assault against two children younger than ten.

A coal miner is hurt in Saline County, Illinois. The sheriff's office says a bulldozer caught fire just before 8:00 Monday morning at the New Future Coal Mine near Galatia.

Authorities in Southern Illinois' Saline County are investigating a man's weekend drowning death in a Harrisburg city park's lagoon.

A Southern Illinois jailer is accused of exposing himself to a female inmate. Saline County prosecutors have charged 25-year-old Patrick McDonald of Harrisburg with one count of official misconduct.

Ryan C. Reynolds, 38, of Mount Vernon, Ind., was seen running from an anhydrous tank off Christy Road, east of Harrisburg, Ill., according to the press release.

A Mt. Vernon man was arrested on meth-related charges following a chase in southern Illinois.

Neighbors say Carline street in Carrier Mills is a quiet part of town. But Saturday night it was the scene of a fight with a deadly weapon.

Authorities are trying to identify the vandals who knocked over more than 150 tombstones in two graveyards in southern Illinois' Saline County.