Kinmundy, IL

They will be flushing hydrants in Kinmundy and Alma on Friday and Saturday. Though water may be discolored during this process, it will remain safe to...

Another combine has been lost to flames this one in Marion County. Emergency crews rushed to rural Alma Sunday afternoon following reports of a heavy field fire.  Kinmundy-Alma Fire Chief Kevin Day reports that when firemen arrived at the Judy Wilkins farm near Oak Grove […]

A Kinmundy woman is behind bars following an early morning police chase that stretched from Salem to Iuka. Salem police say thirty-six-year-old Vanessa Wilkins refused to pull over for a traffic stop on US Route 50 near Lakewood Drive just before three o’clock Monday morning. […]

A 36-year-old Kinmundy woman was arrested on multiple charges after allegedly trying to avoid a traffic stop by Salem Police and then fleeing towards ...

A combine caught fire while harvesting beans Sunday afternoon in rural Alma. Kinmundy-Alma Fire Chief Kevin Day says the combine was engulfed in flame...

William A. “Uncle Bill” Hawkey Jr., age 80, of Kinmundy, Illinois, passed away on Wednesday, October 21, 2026. Bill was born on October 30, 1945, in Farina, Illinois, the son […] The post William A. “Uncle Bill” Hawkey Jr. (80) of Kinmundy appeared first on Effingham's News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3.

William A. "Uncle Bill" Hawkey Jr., age 80, of Kinmundy, Illinois, passed away on Wednesday, October 21, 2026. Bill was born on October 30, 1945, in F...

An investigation is underway in Marion County after an eighty-year-old Kinmundy man fell to his death Wednesday afternoon north of Salem. Marion County Coroner Claude Howell says the body of William Hawkey was discovered around eight o’clock Wednesday night at a maintenance building on Hotze […]

Marion County Coroner Claude Howell says an 80-year-old Kinmundy man fell to his death on Wednesday at a maintenance building on Hotze Road north of S...

Linda K. Alderson, 81, of Kinmundy, Illinois, passed away at her home on Monday, October 19, 2026. Linda was born on September 2, 1945, in Salem, Illi...