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The Marion County Health Department is reporting four more COVID-19 related deaths. Health Department Administrator Melissa Mallow says three were long term care residents. Those who passed away were ...

Centralia Police have arrested a man wanted by Mt. Vernon police on home invasion and weapons charges. 31-year-old Kendrick Feggins was picked up on a warrant charging home invasion aggravated dischar...

The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department has arrested a 37-year-old rural Mt. Vernon man wanted in connection with a December 2019 residential burglary in rural Walnut Hill. Steven Storment was...

URBANA, Ill. (AP) - A central Illinois man accused of murder who was mistakenly released from prison last month is back in custody. Champaign County Sheriff Dustin Heuerman says Darrion White was arre...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin is poised to become the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and that would make him a key ally of President-elect Joe Biden. It’ll be up t...

Gary D. Harper, 66 of The Villages, Florida, formerly of Salem, passed away Monday, November 30, 2020, at the Regional Hospital, The Villages, Fl. Graveside services will be held at the Evergreen Ceme...

Sophie Arning, age 99, of Saint Louis, Missouri, passed away on Sunday, December 6, 2020, at Mercy Hospital South in Saint Louis, Missouri. She was born on December 30, 1920, in Sandoval, Illinois, th...

Gilwan “Gil” Nelson, 45, of Centralia passed away day, December 8, 2020 at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, MO. Gil grew up in Louisville, Kentucky where he discovered a love for basketball a...

Shirley Weathersby, 81, of Centralia passed away Friday, December 4, 2020 at SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital. Arrangements are pending at Irvin Macz Funeral Home in Centralia.

Charlotte (Jett) Scoles, age 94 of Salem, passed away on Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at Cedarhurst in Centralia. Charlotte was a member of the Salem Country Club and was a homemaker. There will be no ...