WAKO News

Preliminary fall enrollment data shows that fewer students are enrolling in community colleges across Illinois in the latest enrollment report compiled by the Illinois Community College Board. The

Lawrenceville Mayor Don Wagner has announced that the City Council Utilities Committee will be meeting late this month. The session will be on Wednesday October 28th at 10 a.m. in the mayor’s

The Illinois Department of Public Health Monday reported 3,113 new confirmed cases of coronavirus across the state with 22 additional deaths. The Lawrence County Health Department was notified

A Lawrence County man who was driving a garbage truck that killed a Mt Carmel woman in 2019 has been sentenced to 9 years in prison. Wabash County States Attorney Cassandra Goldman announced that

The City of Lawrenceville has informed WAKO News that the boil order for the entire city has been lifted as of Tuesday morning. That boil order was imposed late Friday afternoon due to a water main

Lawrence County officials in conjunction with the four county district fire chiefs announced Tuesday that the burn ban recently implemented has now been lifted. Substantive rain over the county in

Judge Raylene Grischow is expected to rule within two to three weeks on whether the lawsuits alledging overreach of power by Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzger in battling COVID-19 should be

The Illinois Department of Public Health reports there were 12,748 new cases of coronavirus across the state over the weekend Friday through Sunday with 87 additional confirmed deaths. One of those

Vincennes Police report the arrests of two people after their involvement in a domestic incident Sunday afternoon at the Autumn Ridge Apartments. Both 20 year old James Braun and 18 year old Haley

The scheduled murder trial of an area man has been delayed. 37 year old Christopher Glass of Mason is charged with the shooting death of Kimberly Mattingly of Paris back in April in a rural area