Parts of Cakokia Mounds to close for $5M improvement project January 10, 2022 @ 7:57 am COLLINSVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Portions of the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site in southern Illinois will close March 1 as work begins on a... Read More
Two charged in home invasion, battery, kidnapping in Jackson County January 8, 2022 @ 8:11 am CARBONDALE, Ill. – On Sunday, Jan. 2, Carbondale Officers responded to the 600 block of West Mill Street for reports of a kidnapping. During... Read More
Arrest made in California in connection to Carbondale murder January 6, 2022 @ 12:21 pm CARBONDALE, Ill. (WJPF) – A body Tuesday found after a welfare check at a home in Carbondale is now being treated as a... Read More
School buses slide on slick roads in Johnson County January 6, 2022 @ 11:59 am JOHNSON COUNTY, Ill. (WJPF) – Slick driving conditions Thursday morning resulted in two loaded buses from the Vienna School District sitting sideways in... Read More
Jonesboro man killed in Union County crash January 6, 2022 @ 11:47 am WARE, Ill. (WJPF) – A Jonesboro man was killed Wednesday in a two vehicle crash in Union County. It happened on Route 3,... Read More
SIH suspends elective surgeries amid COVID-19 surge January 6, 2022 @ 11:13 am CARBONDALE, Ill. (WJPF) – Due to the recent surge in new cases of COVID-19, SIH has once again suspended all elective procedures that... Read More
Welfare check leads to discovery of body in Carbondale home January 6, 2022 @ 10:15 am CARBONDALE, Ill. (WJPF) – A welfare check on a possible missing person led to the discovery of a dead body Tuesday in Carbondale.... Read More
Illinois child welfare worker fatally stabbed during visit January 6, 2022 @ 9:15 am SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois child welfare worker was stabbed to death during a home visit in a town south of Springfield,... Read More
Suspect in slaying of Illinois police officer denied bond January 6, 2022 @ 8:37 am BRADLEY, Ill. (AP) — A judge on Wednesday denied bail to the second of two people charged with killing one police officer and wounding... Read More
Pritzker working remotely after contact with infected worker January 6, 2022 @ 8:35 am CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker will be working remotely through the weekend after he had close contact with a state employee who... Read More