ELDORADO — An Eldorado man is jailed after kicking his way into a secured area of the Eldorado Police Department, apparently intent on plunging a knife into the body of Eldorado Chief of Police Shannon Deuel.
CHICAGO — Gov. Pat Quinn has named an assistant director from the Department of Corrections to be its new acting chief.
SALINE COUNTY -- Saline County Sheriff's Deputies are investigating as many as six round hay bale fires that occurred Thursday night in several locations.
GOLCONDA--A single-vehicle crash resulted in a fatality Tuesday morning in Pope County.
HARRISBURG -- Harrisburg Police are warning residents of a scam involving a sweepstakes that gives the appearance of being sponsored by several legitimate companies.
HARRISBURG -- Harrisburg Police investigated a report of a vehicle burglary early this morning and arrested a man on burglary, theft and drug charges.
HARRISBURG -- Harrisburg firefighters extinguished a car fire that injured the occupant Sunday morning.
SALINE COUNTY -- A few southeastern Illinois farmers are already in the fields with their combines, augers and grain carts harvesting corn and with dry weather and a three-day weekend ahead there will be many more.
STONEFORT--As farmers prepare for one harvest, law enforcement is preparing for another.
HARRISBURG -- Harrisburg firefighters responded to a smoke scare caused by a malfunctioning central air conditioning unit early this morning.
STONEFORT -- Saline County Sheriff's Deputies are investigating the theft of items from the porch of a rural Stonefort residence.
COUNTY COURTHOUSE--Todd Fort intends to retire as a sheriff's deputy and resign from the Harrisburg School Board.
CARMI -- The Illinois State Police District 19 in Carmi will conduct extra patrols for next month involving Saline and other area counties.
SALINE COUNTY -- Saline County Sheriff's Deputies arrested an Eldorado man and Harrisburg woman following an assault on officers with a bottle of anhydrous ammonia, according to the sheriff's office.
HEROD -- A Wabash County man was seriously injured in an all-terrain vehicle accident early Sunday morning, according to Saline County Sheriff Keith Brown.
HARRISBURG--A grill fire caused minor injuries to a Harrisburg man Saturday.
RALEIGH -- Raleigh Police Chief Doug Pyle and the Saline County Sheriff's Office have investigated three burglaries in the last three days in the village and several in past few weeks.
HARRISBURG -- Harrisburg Police Chief Bob Smith asks people driving to the schools to pay close attention to signs as some rules have changed, particular those referring to designated drop off zones.
ELDORADO -- Saline County Sheriff's Deputies are investigating the theft of frozen dinners from a rural Eldorado home.
HARRISBURG -- A new opportunity for high speed Internet is coming to Southern Illinois.
