Williamson County News

Dozens of local high school students gathered at Marion Centre Mall on Sunday, not to shop, but to display six unique projects they've been working on for the last three months.

From a stack of 22 applicants, three rose to the top as candidates for Murfreesboro City Schools director.

Services will be Tuesday for a southern Illinois teenager killed in a weekend rollover wreck caused when her mother swerved to avoid a deer.

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

A 15-year-old Johnston City girl is dead after the car she was riding in veered off the road to avoid hitting deer.

A Williamson County judge sentenced a Marion man to 50 years in prison after he shot his wife and a Marion police officer in September.

A new airline is off the ground at the Williamson County airport. "Cape Air" made its first flight from Marion to St.

A Williamson County family will have a place to call home thanks to John A. Logan College.

Four local businesses have been cited for selling booze to minors. Bill's Liquors in Marion Arnold's in Royalton East Main Market in West Frankfort West Frankfort Gas All failed to check the age of the buyer.

Hundreds of people in southern Illinois are now protected from the H1N1 virus. The first of several scheduled clinics took place Friday morning.

A 29-year-old man from Herrin in southern Illinois has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for the death of his girlfriend's toddler in 2006.

Gov. Pat Quinn says he doesn't expect politics to get in the way of his plan to borrow about $900 million so the state has cash to pay its bills.

A transgender woman who police say pretended to be a 15-year-old boy and tried to enroll at a southern Illinois high school says she isn't guilty of felony disorderly conduct.

The number of flights from Marion to St. Louis will soon triple. The U-S Department of Transportation has hired "Cape Air" as the airport's new commercial carrier.

Cape Air has been confirmed as the air carrier for the Williamson County Regional Airport, according to the Department Transportation.

Three unoccupied mobile homes were illegally set ablaze in a trailer park outside Carbondale Sunday morning and burned until firefighters were called and doused the flames in the early evening, according to neighborhood residents.

Two Perryville residents were among four persons hurt in a traffic crash Saturday on Illinois Route 13 in Williamson County, Illinois.

Four Marion men are behind bars, charged with residential burglary for two burglaries in the Campbell Hill/Ava area.

FBI officials are now aware of a website that alleges 24-year-old Jack Kaiser may have been involved in cyber crimes.

If you have any old electronic equipment around the house here's your chance to clear out the clutter.