WAKO News

Tom Emery, a writer and lecturer from Carlinville Illinois is scheduled to be the next featured speaker at the October meeting of the Lawrence County Historical Society. That meeting will be Monday

The St Francisville City Council will meet in special session next week. City officials have informed WAKO News that the council will gather Monday October 23rd at 7 p.m. at the city hall room of

The Knox County Sheriffs Department is reporting the discovery of a large cache of drugs and drug paraphenalia by it’s K-9 unit this past Sunday. Around 11:30 p.m. ET, a traffic stop was made

The Lawrence County Sheriffs Department late Monday night arrested 36 year old Rick Pinkstaff of Lawrenceville on a charge of Domestic Battery. He was booked into the Lawrence County Jail and was

The city of St Francisville has informed WAKO News that they will be flushing hydrants later this week. The hydrant flushing will begin on Thursday October 19th and continue on Friday October 20th.

The Lawrenceville City Council met in regular session Thursday night at City Hall. They moved to spend $37,000 for maintenence on 2 of the water wells (#15 and #12) at the Allison Prairie Field to

Lawrenceville Police Chief Jim White has announced his departmental activity report for the month of September. There were 325 requests for an officer.  Those officers were involved in 5 mental

A southwestern Indiana man has died as the result of an apparent workplace accident Thursday afternoon in Bicknell. The Knox County Coroners Office report that 64 year old Oscar Sanders of Bicknell

The Commissioners of the Russell-Allison-Ambraw Levee District have announced their annual meeting coming up next month. They are scheduled to meet on Monday November 13th at 6:30 p.m. at the

The Vincennes Board of Works and Safety met Wednesday at City Hall and were witnesses to the swearing in of the 39th Vincennes city firefighter Elmer Stoltzfus. He is a Lancaster Pennsylvania