BENTON, IL. (WJPF) – Benton Fire Chief Shane Cockrum has been suspended thirty days without pay. City Commissioners voted 4 – 1 in favor...

CARMI, IL. (WJPF) – Visitation service for Brooke Naylor will be held tonight in Carmi. The 20-year-old went missing last week. Her body was...

MARION, IL. (WJPF) – A Marion man will spend the next two years in state prison on drug charges. 25-year-old Luke DeWitt charged with...

MARION, IL. (WJPF) – A Northern Illinois woman has been sentenced to two years in state prison on drug charges. 31-year-old Ashley Collins, of...

MARION, IL. (WJPF) – A Carterville woman will spend the next three years in state prison after violating probation she had received on theft...

WATERLOO, Ill. (AP) – A single-engine aircraft carrying three people has crashed in southern Illinois. Monroe County Sheriff Neal Rohlfing says the plane went...

CHICAGO (AP) – Gov. J.B. Pritzker has launched an online calculator that he says will let Illinoisans know how his proposed graduated income tax...

MAMMOTH CAVE, Ky. (AP) – Federal authorities are investigating the discovery of a body at Mammoth Cave National Park. The body of 23-year-old Mariah...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – State government buildings are flying U.S. and Illinois flags at half-staff in honor of a McHenry County sheriff’s deputy killed...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – A study has found that an Illinois’ teacher shortage has become particularly acute in central and southern sections of the...