Washington County News

The musical bases will be loaded at GCS Ballpark in Sauget when Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp all take the field for a concert tonight.

Members of the Washington County Horticultural Society will be touring private gardens, the Duluth Rose Garden and Edelweiss Nursery in Duluth on July 11.

Many Washington County reservists are returning to Iraq for second and third times, while some others will deploy for the first time.

DU BOIS, Ill.-- The search is on for the suspect who robbed the Farmers and Merchants National Bank on Broadway Friday.

The Women's Committee recently enjoyed a trip to Washington IA to view barn quilts.

When Norbert Zinck points out where he has been on agricultural aid missions, it takes a world globe, and he has to spin it back and forth several times.

Washington County, Illinois, located less than an hour's drive east of the Gateway Arch in St Louis, is a quiet, rural county with a population of just 15,000. The county seat, Nashville, has a population of 3200.

Update 1:20 p.m. : After almost two and a half hours of debate, the House moved the bill to the next session.

The 53rd Annual Panhandle Watermelon Festival 2009 entertainment lineup. Friday, June 26, Daryle Singletary will be live in concert starting at 6 p.m. at PALS Park Be sure to take your lawn chair.

A Washington County native is helping raise money and awareness for pancreatic cancer.

The United States is facing the worst economic challenges since the Great Depression, and Illinois is faring worse than most.

Franklin County officials are waiting to find out if a funnel cloud spotted over southeastern Farmington touched down.

The government snitch who helped send two Ramsey County sheriff's employees to federal prison on corruption charges was charged Thursday with selling meth from his Oakdale home.

The Greene County Commission's Purchasing Committee voted Monday to let a Nashville-based tire recycler handle the county's used tires, instead of sending them to a multi-county "hub" operated by Washington County.

A Mascoutah man was arrested after he attempted to break into a St. Libory home last Thursday.

Severe storms quickly moved through the St. Louis area late Sunday morning, bringing quarter-size hail and 60 mph wind gusts that knocked down trees, damaged homes and left thousands without power.

Metro Police have charged four people, all with lengthy criminal records, in connection with the Thursday morning kidnapping and robbery of a 64-year-old man on Gatlin Drive.

There's a lot of debate surrounding stem cell research, but a Washington County man says certain types of stem cell treatments do work and shouldn't be controversial.

The Washington County Prosecutor's office reports the following indictments were returned by the Washington County Grand Jury on February 27, 2009.

The Carter County Courthouse Annex, including the jail, is one step away from a crisis if the boiler shuts down with the temperature in the single digits.