Author Archives: WJBD Staff
Bill to do away with Parental Notification Law for abortions now on Governor's desk
Legislation to do away with parental notification law for underage women is now on the Governor's desk. The House joined the Senate in voting to repeal the act, which requires a provider to inform a m...
Oct 28, 2021 Jim Bowen / CC
Change To Health Care Right of Conscience Act Passes House And Goes Back To Senate
The Illinois House is voting to clarify that the Health Care Right of Conscience Act can't be used to refuse Covid-19 vaccine mandates. The House narrowly approved the bill, with supporters like repre...
Oct 28, 2021 Matt Turner / CC
Third person arrested for rural Iuka farmstead building
The Marion County Sheriff's Department has made a third arrest in connection with a burglary to a farmstead in the 7900 block of Brubaker Road in rural Iuka. 28-year-old Slade Thompson of Rogers Stree...
Oct 28, 2021
Registration area of Salem Township Hospital being renovated
The registration area for patients entering Salem Township Hospital through the emergency room entrance will be renovated. Hospital President Alex Nazarian says a $217,000 contract has been awarded to...
Oct 28, 2021 Salem Township Hospital President Alex Nazarian
Salem Township Hospital adopts $15 an hour minimum wage
The Salem Township Hospital Board has adopted a $15 an hour minimum wage effective Sunday. Hospital President Alex Nazarian says about 30 employees will immediately be affected. He hopes it will help ...
Oct 28, 2021 Pictures of Money / CC
Centralia man sentenced to five years in prison on weapons charge
A 37-year-old Centralia man has been sentenced to five years in prison for unlawful use of a weapon by a felon. As part of the plea agreement, a charge of possession of methamphetamine was dropped aga...
Oct 28, 2021
Man charged with murder in death of Illinois police officer
PONTOON BEACH, Ill. (AP) - A 31-year-old southern Illinois man has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the fatal shooting of a police officer at a gas station. Scott Hyden of High...
Oct 28, 2021 Pontoon Beach Officer Tyler Timmons
Judge acquits man who lived at Chicago airport for 3 months
CHICAGO (AP) - A man who spent three months living in a secured terminal at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport instead of flying home to India as he had planned has been acquitted on a felony tres...
Oct 28, 2021 Katherine Johnson / CC
'Animalism': Blackhawks scandal raises culture questions
CHICAGO (AP) - The former player at the heart of the Chicago Blackhawks assault scandal has come forward publicly. Kyle Beach tells TSN he felt "alone and dark" in the days following the alleged assau...
Oct 28, 2021
Pritzker to visit UK, tout climate-change efforts next week
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - An Illinois mission is headed for the United Kingdom next week to discuss the state's efforts to neutralize climate change while bolstering economic development. Gov. J.B. Pri...
Oct 28, 2021 Trump White House Archived
