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Gillespie’s Maxx Fritz won four matches and lost one at the IHSA State Wrestling Tournament held at the State Farm Center in Champaign February 18-20. Fritz...
A Medora man was seriously injured and a Collinsville woman was killed Saturday afternoon in a crash on Illinois Route 267 in Jersey County. The two-vehicle...
UPDATE: The St. Louis Major Case Squad was deactivated Friday afternoon. Sheriff Kahl said he is optimistic that his department will have charges on a suspect in...
The Macoupin and Montgomery Counties Crime Stoppers released a press release Monday morning warning residents of a suspicious truck in the Shipman area. The driver of...
The Illinois State Police and the Gillespie Police Department are investigating the death of a 41-year-old woman who was found last Wednesday, January 20, in her...
Approximately one pound of methamphetamine was seized and one person was arrested Monday evening on Interstate 55 near Litchfield after the vehicle was stopped by an...
A Gillespie man was charged with three counts of felony gun charges and a driving under the influence of alcohol charge after a Gillespie police officer...
Authorities of District 18 Illinois State Police have released the identities of the two young adults killed early Sunday morning after their vehicle veered off the...
An 18-year-old female and 22-year-old male died Sunday morning following a single-vehicle accident where their vehicle left the roadway and struck a tree. According to the...
A Gillespie woman has been charged with two related drug offenses after police arrested her in late November following an ongoing investigation by the Gillespie Police...
The Gillespie Middle School seventh grade girls basketball team (25-3) was defeated for only their third time tonight in the 7-3A State Championship match-up at Auburn...
The Gillespie Fire Department and Gillespie Police Department are investigating an incident where a scammer or scammers called a resident in Mt. Clare asking for donation...
A Chicago man was arrested on Wednesday evening after a traffic stop led Illinois State Police District 18 troopers to a large amount of drugs. Sergeant...
The Macoupin County Sherrif’s Office is asking for help in solving a theft case that occurred at Country Classic Cars before November 6, 2015. The department...
The Mt. Olive Police Department put a suspected drug dealer in jail this month after an ongoing investigation resulted in the arrest of one Mt. Olive...
UPDATE 12:00 p.m.: It’s being reported that all lanes of I-55 and the frontage roads have reopened. Illinois State Police District 18 have shut down Interstate-55...
UPDATE: Bolin’s criminal felony case was called for preliminary hearing last week and the Court found “Probable Cause” that a felony offense was committed. This matter set for...
A male bicyclist was taken to Memorial Medical Center in Springfield by Hillsboro Ambulance after he rode into the path of a tractor trailer on Illinois...
A 52-year-old man from Moro, Illinois has been arrested and charged for home invasion and theft after he broke into a Bunker Hill residence on Wednesday,...
