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Sandoval Police are investigating a stabbing that reportedly occurred at one of the bars in Sandoval early Tuesday morning. Police Chief Joe Lyons says reports are incomplete and he currently has no d...

Centralia Police are still trying to put together the pieces of what happened in the 700 block of North Lincoln Monday night. Administrative Sergeant Steve Whritenour says the department responded to ...

Salem Police arrested three people wanted on outstanding warrants when going to one of their homes on Monday. 21-year-old Danielle Campbell of East Main Street was arrested on an outstanding Clinton C...

A 55-year-old Centralia man has been arrested by Centralia Police on multiple new charges and two outstanding warrants after being located Monday hiding in a shed. Allen Wilson of South Poplar had ear...

Salem Police arrested a 26-year-old Flora man on Monday on an outstanding Indiana Department of Corrections parole violation warrant. Dominque Castillo of West 6th was taken into custody after police ...

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) - Authorities say a woman whose body was found at a southern Illinois highway intersection had been reported missing from Georgia, and her husband remains missing. Police say 3...

Elizabeth Susan "Betty" Ruff, 100, of Centralia died Friday, May 6, 2022, at Centralia Manor. Her death was not Covid related. She came to Centralia in 1990 and was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Chu...

Georgia Leah England, 70, of Mount Vernon, Illinois, passed away at 9:51 pm May 6, 2022 at Saint Louis University Hospital in Saint Louis, Missouri. Georgia worked as a registered nurse for forty-two ...

Salem Police say one person was injured in a two vehicle crash at North Broadway and Boone Street on Monday afternoon. Police report a car driven by 19-year-old Maci Hocking of North Broadway in Salem...

Centralia has a new mayor. More than two years after being elected the first time, Bryan Kuder was seated as Mayor Monday night without opposition after winning his second election last month. "Just w...