WAKO News

With the holiday shopping season upon us, local and area law enforcement authorities are urging Lawrence County and other citizens to be on the lookout for counterfeit money being passed in

Vincennes University will host its annual Veterans Day tribute Tuesday November 9th at 11 a.m. ET at the Red Skelton Performing Arts Center. All are invited to attend and remember and honor those

To help remember veterans and to honor their service to the country, 55th District Republican State Senator Darren Bailey is inviting his constituents to submit tributes and photos of them or their

The Illinois Department of Public Health reports there have now been 1,712,986 cases of coronavirus across the state with 25,948 deaths since the pandemic began. The Lawrence County Health

Reports out of Washington D.C. indicate that an Air Force veteran from southwestern Indiana was sentenced to 3 year of probation for his involvement in the January 6th insurrection at the U.S.

The Lawrence County Sheriffs Department is holding a local man on a Child Pornography charge. 41 year old Michael Edborg of Lawrenceville was booked into the Lawrence County Jail Saturday. No other

This coming weekend marks the end of Daylight Saving Time. Lawrence County and other area residents are reminded to turn their clocks back one hour early Sunday. Moving the clocks back an hour will

Roy Inglis, who founded the Vincennes Youth Soccer Association, will be honored this weekend with the N. Phillip Shelton Humanitarian Award, presented by the Vincennes Kiwanis Club in association

The Indiana Historical Society announced its Founders Day Award winners this week and the Lawrence County Illinois Historical Society was the recipient of an Indiana History Outstanding 

The Lawrence County Sheriffs Department Thursday arrested 38 year old Kyle Gosnell of Lawrenceville on a charge of Probation Violation. He was booked into the Lawrence County Jail and was being