Author Archives: WJBD Staff
Royals fire hitting coach
UNDATED (AP) - The Kansas City Royals have fired hitting coach Terry Bradshaw and promoted Alex Zumwalt in a shakeup of the coaching staff that they hope will wake up one of the worst offenses in the ...
May 17, 2022 Steam Pipe Trunk Distribution Venue / CC
4 Bills Hall of Famers planning support of shooting victims
UNDATED (AP) - Bills Hall of Fame running back Thurman Thomas tells The Associated Press he and several former teammates are coming together in Buffalo this week to help support families of the shooti...
May 17, 2022 Mark Morgan / CC
Golden Knights fire DeBoer, Islanders name Lambert
UNDATED (AP) - The Vegas Golden Knights have fired coach Peter DeBoer after they missed the playoffs for the first time in franchise history. General manager Kelly McCrimmon says the front office beli...
May 17, 2022
PGA shaping up as much different from previous 4 in Tulsa
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Southern Hills proudly displays the slogan for this PGA Championship as "First to Five." No course has hosted the PGA as many times. And it's surely going to be different from the ...
May 17, 2022
Franklin Park Bobcats Misses State Title By Half Point....Lady Bobcats 3rd...Class S Results
The Franklin Park Bobcats track team competed at the Class L State Track & Field Championship held at Carterville High School on a hot afternoon. The Bobcats finished with 69 points, just one-half...
May 17, 2022 Toby Gullion - FTS Photography
Clinton County Sheriff's Department releases details on double fatality crash that killed two young people from Sandoval
The Clinton County Sheriff's Department has released details on a head-on crash on New U.S. 50 at the Shoal Creek Bridge between Breese and Beckemeyer that claimed the lives of two young Sandoval resi...
May 16, 2022
More than $1,000 headed to program to feed Ukrainian refugees from Centralia schools
A program started by the 6th Grade Soar Class at Centralia Junior High has raised more than $1,000 that will be utilized to feed Ukrainian refugees. SOAR teacher Mike Morris explained how the program ...
May 16, 2022 Centralia Junior High SOAR members who helped raise nearly $1,000 for a food kitchen that feeds Ukranian refugees. Photo by Pat Hodges.
Odin School hires new Superintendent
The Assistant Principal and Dean of Students at Woodlawn School District has been hired as the new Superintendent of the Odin School District. Belinda Kirgan will replace Kimberly Briggs who is leavin...
May 16, 2022 Odin High School. Photo by Sam Snodsmith.
Salem City Council to give first reading to implementing fee on for profit businesses with video gaming
The Salem City Council Monday night will be asked to give first reading approval to a proposal to charge for profit businesses with video gaming machines. The proposed fee is $250, the maximum allowed...
May 16, 2022
Police Beat for Monday, May 16th, 2022
A 22-year-old Centralia man has been arrested by Centralia Police for alleged domestic battery. Dalton Crabtree of South Cherry was taken to the Marion County Jail pending a decision on formal charges...
May 16, 2022
