Kimberly Young Wilkins is the state monitor, and she’ll be helping with the district’s academic and financial challenges. She’ll also create a proposed financial and academic improvement plan before ...

A vision five months in the making has become a reality for Mount Vernon High School's football program, thanks to a ...

The next school year might still be more than a month away, but Dr. Demario Strickland is already very busy. The next school ...

Illinois Supreme Court appoints James Hackett as appellate judge ...

Though they billed it as a “soft opening,” the renovated, 139,000-square-foot Mount Vernon Recreation Center drew many admiring oohs and ahs on June 9 when local officials and others cut a red ...

After defeating a familiar foe in the quarterfinal round, Underwood will face another familiar opponent, Unity Christian, a ...

We must tell the whole story, including the disturbing chapters, several speakers urged at the June 29 dedication of a new Virginia marker in Little Hunting Park in Mount Vernon’s Bucknell ...

Jason Boroughs, Mount Vernon's principal archaeologist, told NBC 16, “Finding what is essentially fresh fruit, 250 years later, is pretty spectacular.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, former California governor and actor, was the keynoe speaker at a naturalization ceremony at Mount Vernon on July 4.

Kicking Off America’s 250th at Mount Vernon View of Mount Vernon from above, overlooking the Potomac River. (Courtesy of George Washington’s Mount Vernon) ...

A Mount Vernon man was found guilty of first-degree murder in a jury trial in Jefferson County, Illinois.

MOUNT VERNON, Ill. (WSIL) -- Eddie Bennett, 68, was convicted of first-degree murder and murder involving mob action in Jefferson County, the Mount Vernon Police Department reported.