Author Archives: WJBD Staff
Marion County Board's Redistricting Committee makes recommendations
The Marion County Board's Redistricting Committee is recommending the board remain with five districts with three board members per district. The committee will also seek an increase in pay per meetin...
Nov 18, 2021
Disturbance at drive-through window of eastside McDonald's in Centralia leads to arrest
Centralia Police arrested a 38-year-old Centralia man on multiple charges after he allegedly refused to leave the drive up window at the eastside McDonald's and began yelling and cursing employee. Chr...
Nov 18, 2021 Mike Mozart / CC
Police Beat for Thursday, November 18th, 2021
A 44-year-old DuBois man has been arrested by Centralia Police for alleged possession of meth and on a new Jefferson County warrant for alleged possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance...
Nov 18, 2021
Illinois Principals Association Recognizes Area Award Winners
Several area residents will receive 2021 awards from The Kaskaskia Region of the Illinois Principals Association that includes Bond, Clinton, Fayette, Macoupin, Marion and Montgomery Counties. Tyler L...
Nov 18, 2021 GotCredit / CC
Farina man found guilty of five criminal sexual assault charges
A Fayette County jury has found a 41-year-old Farina man guilty of five felony counts of criminal sexual assault. Robert Branham was first arrested on the charges in August of 2020. One of the charges...
Nov 18, 2021 Robert Branham
Centralia man pleads guilty to federal weapons charge
A 35-year-old Centralia man has pleaded guilty to a weapons charge in federal court. Jerry Courtney admitted to being a felon in possession of a firearm. He will face up to ten years in prison and a $...
Nov 18, 2021 Jerry Courtney
Second person charged in connection with oil field break-in
A second person has been charged in Marion County Court in connection with a Sunday burglary and theft of items from a Country Mark oilfield office located off the Selmaville Road southwest of Salem. ...
Nov 18, 2021 Tristan Rankin
Student, 18, fatally stabbed outside Springfield high school
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - A coroner has identified a student who was fatally stabbed outside a Springfield high school during an altercation involving three students. Sangamon County Coroner Jim Allmon...
Nov 18, 2021
East St Louis shooting kills man, 25, injures 3 others
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) - Police say a shooting in suburban St. Louis has left a 25-year-old man dead and injured three other people. The St. Clair County Coroner says Cornelius Eiland of East St. L...
Nov 18, 2021
1 dead, 1 hurt in surging Chicago expressways gun violence
CHICAGO (AP) - The Illinois State Police say one person has been killed and another wounded in shootings on Chicago expressways. The agency says the shootings happened early Thursday morning on Inters...
Nov 18, 2021
