WAKO News

The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 1,709 new cases of coronavirus across the state Monday with 13 additional deaths. Two of those deaths were in the area-a male in his 70s from

A wanted Knox County Indiana man was taken into custody here in Lawrence County Monday. 47 year old Joesph Horrall of Bruceville was being sought by the Lawrence County Sheriffs Department for

An area man wanted in both Illinois and Indiana was captured Monday morning. The Sullivan County Indiana Sheriffs Department reports that 21 year old Dalton Hood of West York Illinois was arrested

The name of the West Salem Illinois man killed in a weekend traffic accident in Wayne County has now been released. Authorities say he is 69 year old Steven Houchin. Police say that Houchin was

Unemployment rates from July to August have improved in southeastern Illinois as the overall state economy grows stronger. That according to figures released for Lawrence County and surrounding

The Illinois Department of Public Health says it is extremely important that Lawrence County residents and others around the area get a flu shot this year. Flu season is coming soon and it will not

The Illinois Department of Public Health reports that there were 6,559 new cases of coronavirus over the weekend from Friday through Sunday across the state with 63 additional deaths. Crawford

The Lawrence County Sheriffs Department over the weekend arrested 43 year old Janice Baker of Lawrenceville for Theft. She was released on $30,000 bond. 53 year old Terry Wysong of Lawrenceville

Lawrenceville Police investigated a two vehicle accident Sunday at the Walmart parking lot at 2610 West Haven Road. A 1997 Ford Pickup being driven by Joesph Baer of Bridgeport backed into a 2011

It was a deadly weekend on area highways and byways with three people dying in accidents-two of them in Wayne County. Saturday around 4 p.m. State Police at Carmi say that 36 year old Jonathan