Nashville, IL Police have arrested two Salem residents following an early Thursday night traffic stop along I-64 eastbound at the Nashville exit. Those arrested were the driver, 49-year-old John Haney, on charges of obstructing and resisting a peace officer, obstructing justice, controlled substance trafficking, possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance (15 to 100 grams), and possession of a controlled substance (15 to 100 grams). The passenger, 51-year-old Amy Webb, was arre...

A 22-year-old Iuka man has been arrested by Marion County Sheriff's Deputies for violation of pretrial conditions. Tanner Mollet of Oak Road was taken to the Marion County Jail to await further court action. 32-year-old Spencer Loyd of North Miller Street in Salem was arrested at the Marion County Courthouse on an outstanding Clinton County warrant. He was later transferred to the Clinton County Jail at Carlyle. 51-year-old Donald King of College Road in Centralia was arrested by Centralia ...

Two Centralia residents have been arrested after fleeing a car that crashed in Washington County after a Friday night chase that reached 110 miles per hour, with shots fired at the pursuing officer. The driver of the car, 25-year-old Dylan Foutch of East 11th, remains in the Washington County Jail at Nashville after being arrested for armed violence, aggravated discharge of a firearm at police, unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon, aggravated fleeing and eluding police, possession of a ...

Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced a 34-year-old Mt. Vernon, Illinois man has been sentenced to 48 years in prison for disseminating child sexual abuse material. Dustin Phillips was sentenced by Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge Jerry E. Crisel after pleading guilty to three counts of dissemination of child pornography, Class X felonies. The case is part of Raoul's ongoing work, in collaboration with federal law enforcement agencies and local law enforcement officials throughout Illino...

This marks one of the first reported mass ICE enforcement actions this far south in Illinois By JACKSON BRANDHORST & LYLEE GIBBS Saluki Local Reporting Lab Capitol News Illinois Article Summary The men worked at a sawmill in Du Quoin and ICE detained them during a traffic stop on Jan. 29 on their way to work. Du Quoin's mayor said he had no advance knowledge of the enforcement activity. All of the workers had been employed at Alstat Wood Products through a labor subcontracting firm, and ...

Longtime Salem Optometrist Dr. Doris Osborne is retiring. Friday is Dr. Osborne's last day of seeing patients for eye exams. She will be available from nine to noon and one to five on Monday for people to stop by or call the office to make arrangements to get a copy of their records. Osborne says as eye glasses and contacts arrive and when records are ready, patients will be contacted to arrange a pick up time. Dr. Osborne wants to thank her patients for allowing her to provide their eye ca...

A 34-year-old Flora woman has been sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty in Marion County Court for possession of 15 to 100 grams of a substance containing methamphetamine. As part of the plea, two Class X charges pending against Brittani Workman-Rueger of West 8th were dropped for methamphetamine trafficking and possession with intent to deliver methamphetamine between 100 and 400 grams. Another possession of methamphetamine charge for having possession of 100 to 400 gram...

A 20-year-old Salem woman was ordered held in the Marion County Jail without bond after being formally charged in court Thursday with six counts related to a February 10th altercation in Centralia. Two of the charges against Kjay Bumgarner of South Pearl accuse her of violation her pretrial release on prior domestic battery related charges against the same victim. Bumgarner was charged with aggravated domestic battery, three counts of domestic battery and two counts of violation of condition...