Carmi police arrest two over weekend
State Police Officer from Benton receives FOP Award for saving the life of an FBI agent during a shootout
A State Police officer from Benton who saved the life of an FBI agent during a southern Illinois shootout was presented with the...
Unemployment Rates Show Slight Increase in half of Metro Areas
CHICAGO–This month, seven of Illinois’ metropolitan (metro) areas experienced increases in their over-the-year unemployment rate and eight of the metro areas had increases in nonfarm jobs, according to preliminary data released today by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the Illinois Department...
Carmi police take theft report; make warrant arrest
The Carmi Police Department took a report of stolen phone Thursday afternoon. Laura Wright of Carmi reported to police that around 7:30 am that morning, someone stole her phone from her vehicle while it was parked in the Walmart lot.
FMH adds four new providers
FMH CEO, Katherine Bunting-Williams, Ph.D., stated today, “Fairfield Memorial Hospital is growing rapidly in not only new services, but also among our provider base. We have some new and familiar faces that have joined our organization to help us care for patients in the...
Residents enjoy cleaner drinking water due to Kinkaid Lake restoration effort
About 30,000 people depend on Kinkaid Lake for drinking water. Yet, soil erosion within the watershed and along the lakeis dumping thousands of tons of sediment — enough to fill more than 2,200 dump trucks — into the lake...
RLC Foundation Scholarship Dinner draws 300 for annual celebration
Scholarship recipients and donors shared an evening together last week at the annual Rend Lake College Foundation Scholarship Dinner to applaud the gift of giving. The event was held last Thursday, Oct. 20, at the Rend Lake Resort in Whittington.Kay Zibby-Damron, RLC Foundation CEO,...
New Youth Minister Aims to Bring Hope to Students
Photo/story courtesy of Barry Cleveland.“We can create change in children’s lives,” Drew Flanagan told a Carmi audience Thursday, and in so doing change the world—a little bit at a time.
The new youth minister at First Christian Church was the guest speaker at Thursday’s weekly...
RLC Scholarship helped Logan Tharp draw up a master plan
It’s not every day that you get to win an art contest and go to college for free, but that’s the exact situation Logan Tharp found himself in when he was selected as the scholarship recipient of the 2014 Rend Lake College Student Art...
