Author Archives: WJBD Staff

Marion County property tax bills go in the mail on Friday. County Treasurer Gary Purcell says 34,496 bills have been prepared seeking to collected $39,288,636. That's about a million dollars more than...

About 160 business and industrial leaders attended the Centralia Industrial Commission's Appreciation Reception Thursday night at the new Castle Ridge Resort. Centralia City Manager Forrest Langenfeld...

Salem Police arrested two persons wanted on warrants and later took one of them into custody for possession of methamphetamine. Police located 37-year-old Robert Garney of Selmaville Road and 34-year-...

CHICAGO (AP) - A police report says a mass shooting that left four people dead and four others wounded at a house on Chicago's South Side was believed to have been carried out by two people who shot a...

CHICAGO (AP) - Activists widely expected Joe Biden to take swift action against the death penalty as the first sitting president to oppose capital punishment, but the White House has been mostly silen...

CHICAGO (AP) - Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed a $42 billion spending plan for Illinois that includes $2.5 billion in spending from a multi-year federal relief package. The budget came together after Pr...

Government officials say a company hired to extinguish a fire that gutted a northern Illinois chemical plant used foam containing toxic compounds that have contaminated many U.S. waters. The U.S. Envi...

It was a historic night for the South Central Cougars. The Cougars (26-3) held off a late rally by the Griffins of Father McGivney (31-7) on their way to a 4-2 victory in the state championship game o...

The 2a Final Four will be played today at ISU. The first game of the day at 10am will see Timothy Christian taking on Sacred Heart-Griffin followed by Normal University and Freeburg at 1. The 3rd plac...

The prep softball season came to an end as the large school's finished up their respective state tournaments. At the Louisville Slugger Sports Complex in Peoria, Highland won the 3a state softball tit...