Author Archives: WJBD Staff

The South Central Middle School softball tryouts will be held Monday from 3-5pm at Webster Park in Kinmundy with a parents meeting to follow that evening. The South Central Middle School baseball team...

In Salem Recreation/YMCA men's softball, Modern Woodmen beat B&J Loggers 17-7, Iuka State Bank over Diamonds 14-10, Lock n Roll Self Storage knocked off Prestige Worldwide 16-11.

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Albert Pujols and rookie Nolan Gorman hit solo home runs and the St. Louis Cardinals ended Los Angeles' seven-game winning streak, beating the Dodgers 7-6. The Cardinals have won thre...

CHICAGO (AP) - Ramn Uras hit a two-run homer and made a big defensive play, and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Chicago Cubs 4-2 for their ninth straight victory. Jorge Mateo also homered as Baltimore ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The New Orleans Pelicans say second-round draft choice E.J. Liddell has been diagnosed with torn knee ligaments that will keep him out indefinitely. The injury to the 6-foot-6 forwa...

The City of Centralia has sold the long vacant Hoffman Hart building at 122 East Broadway downtown for $60,000. The sale for the minimum acceptable price was made by the city contingent on the new own...

The developers of Castle Ridge are asking the Centralia City Council to increase its cap on available tax increment financing funds from $2.5-million to $5- million to allow the lodging portion of the...

A new state law aims to grow the microchip industry in Illinois. The new Micro Act offers various tax credits for eligible semiconductor and microchip manufacturers says Senator Mike Halpin of Rock Is...

A 25-year-old Salem man has been arrested by Marion County Sheriff's Deputies for violation of bail bond. Jarad Sidener of South Washington was taken to the Marion County Jail. 35-year-old Holly Cream...

A 27-year-old Centralia man has been formally charged in Marion County Court with aggravated battery in a public place after allegedly punching a man through a window of his car after he refused to gi...