Author Archives: WJBD Staff

A 27-year-old Decatur man has been sentenced to three years in prison in connection with a January 2020 fight at the Marion County Jail. Spencer Loyd admitted to striking another inmate in the head an...

Fire caused minor damage to a modular home occupied by Dietrich Starks and Cedric Garrett at 902 McKee Street in Centralia late Tuesday afternoon. Centralia City Firemen say all available firemen were...

A Flora man has been sentenced to a total of 20 years in prison in connection with an altercation that led to three stabbings last December at the Oyo/Roadway Inn on North Olive Road in Flora. Shane H...

End of Season Competition, they traveled to Branson, MO the weekend before for an OPEN Championship competition Youth Level 1 Squad: Ages 6-12 - 1st Place Nationals Champions -Ella Bays, Khloe Bodine,...

The Salem Wildcats hope to improve on their 1-6 record when they play at Okawville this afternoon. Salem is coming off a loss at Columbia on Monday. Game time at 4:30. The Salem JV will also play this...

The Salem Tennis team beat Carmi 9-0 sweeping all of their matches in singles and doubles. Those singles winners were Greg Briot, Daniyal Islam, John Tran, Riley Donoho, Grant Purcell and Peter Huang....

The National Tournament is done for the KC women's tennis team. Recapping their performances... Larissa Hoffman was in the final 16 in #2 singles, Claire Griffith was final 8 in #6 singles, Maddi Capp...

The 10u Sonics traveled to Effingham over the weekend to play in the Effingham Spring Fling. On Saturday the Sonics played 2 pool plays games resulting in a 9-5 loss to the Charleston Chill and a 1-1 ...

In Tee Ball action at the Complex for Peoples State Bank on Monday night Cade Rambo, Brantley Ice and Ronin Artieda scored 3 runs each. Cade Rambo, Levi Knapp and Reed Knapp made several defensive pla...

Chicago Bulls (26-39, 12th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Charlotte Hornets (32-33, eighth in the Eastern Conference) Charlotte; Thursday, 7 p.m. EDT BOTTOM LINE: Chicago enters the matchup against Ch...