The film recounts the early life of George Washington, highlighting his upbringing on a Virginia tobacco plantation. It ...

Brenda is the Assistant Director and Senior Policy Analyst for the Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Americans have maintained particular admiration for George Washington, ...

MT. VERNON, Ill. (WSIL) -- The Mt. Vernon Airport is mourning the loss of Evertt Atkinson, a cherished member of the community. Airport officials said Atkinson passed away on Easter Sunday at the ...

FORTVILLE — It was a different format — still close — but Mt. Vernon’s girls tennis team made it two in a row over rival New Palestine. Last month, Mt. Vernon claimed the Hancock County ...

FORTVILLE — Mt. Vernon High School band director Kathryn Spangler has been recognized as one of the top music teachers in the country, in more ways than one. Last week Spangler was notified she ...

MT. VERNON, Ill. (WSIL) -- One person is dead after a traffic crash in Mt. Vernon on Wednesday. The Mt. Vernon Police Chief Robert Brands said the incident happened at around 7:43 p.m. on May 7 ...

MT. VERNON, Ill. (KFVS) - Two people are safe after the Mt. Vernon Fire Department responded to a report of someone hanging from a water tower. According to the Mt. Vernon Fire Department ...

MT. VERNON, Ill. (KFVS) - A domestic disturbance call in Mt. Vernon leads to the arrest of a man who displayed and fired a firearm. According to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office ...

MOUNT VERNON — The Mount Vernon City Council on Wednesday approved a street closure for a teen shelter’s grand opening, a contract for indigent defense services and an expansion of the Citizen ...

A pedestrian was struck the afternoon of Tuesday, April 29, on Westchester's Cross County Parkway in Mount Vernon, snarling traffic on the westbound Cross County Parkway and southbound Hutchinson ...

May 18 marks the 45th anniversary of the catastrophic eruption of Mount St. Helens in southwestern Washington. The blast in 1980 killed dozens of people and reshaped the volcanic peak in the ...

IN FACT, IT WAS SO WARM ACROSS THE STATE. I THINK MATT SAID 80 AT HAMPTON BEACH. SO WARM THAT MOUNT WASHINGTON LOST A TON OF ITS SNOW TOWARD ITS PEAK, ACTUALLY. YEAH, THE MOUNT WASHINGTON ...