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There will be an Easter Egg Hunt for the Centralia area on Easter afternoon, April 4th, but it won’t be traditional. Wamac Mayor Butch Mathis says continued limitations on crowd gatherings becau...

Jefferson Fire Protection District officials report minor damage to a mobile home in rural Texico in a Wednesday afternoon fire. Fire officials say the fire at the Sean Eubanks home on Stratford Lane ...

A 28-year-old Centralia man has been sentenced to four years in prison in Marion County Court after his probation was revoked on a residential burglary conviction. Collin Arnold of South Maple will se...

The Salem Wildcats are back in Cahokia play tonight as they travel to take on new conference foe Okawville. The Cats had their 2 game winning streak snapped on Tuesday night in a loss to Wesclin. Sale...

The Lady Cats snapped their 3-game skid on Tuesday night in their blowout win. They will host Okawville tonight to B.E. Gum. Bill Hawley and Craig Holmes will have the call on WSIQ starting at 7:30. T...

The Franklin Park Bobcats dropped back to .500 at 4-4 following their 3rd loss of the week. Cisne knocked off the Bobcats on 8th Grade Night 47-31. Lyric Black led the Bobcats with 10. Salem will retu...

The schedule is set for the Class L boys' basketball regional hosted by Franklin Park. The Bobcats will be the 3 seed and open with #2 Casey Mt Vernon on Tuesday at 5:30 followed by top-seed Centralia...

The Selmaville Rockets knocked off St Mary's/Willow Grove for the Region 12 title 20-25, 25-19, 17-15. Ellie Smith led the team with 14 points and Lauren Burge followed with 12.

The Franklin Park bowlers picked up wins last night. The boys finished with a 2-game total of 1325 ahead of Central City 1100, Woodlawn 749, Rome 637. The top 3 bowlers for Salem were Ryan Detering's ...

The KC Blue Devils knocked off visiting Lewis & Clark 98-76 behind 21 from Chris White. Chauncey Hughes finished with 18 along with Shomari Tillett with Traeveion Jones finishing with 12 and Payt...