Author Archives: WJBD Staff

State Senator Jason Plummer (IL-55) held an end-of-session town hall at the Kaskaskia College Education Center in Salem to discuss the concluded Spring 2024 session of state legislature. Plummer stres...

The Salem Bryan-Bennett Library has been left over $200,000 from a former patron and board member. The announcement came from the estate of Marilea Koch. The Successor Trustee of her trust, Richard St...

The United Way of South Central Illinois has allocated the federal Emergency Food and Shelter Program funding to organizations in Marion and Jefferson Counties. Executive Director Natalie Shook says t...

SSM Health Medical Group has welcomed general surgeon, Dr. Anupam Gupta, who specializes in treating digestive concerns and diseases. Dr. Gupta is trained in the latest best practices and uses current...

Several Centralia Orphans baseball players were honored for their great season. Cruz Harlan and Lane Griffin were on the first team, Xavier Koch and Malik Myers the 2nd team with Drake Fahringer and N...

At the Little League Complex in Pony League play, Pennington Chevrolet beat Schmidt Ford 7-6. Trygg Aaron threw the complete game in the win. Hunter Janicki went 3-3.

In City of Salem/YMCA Women's A League Volleyball tournament action this week, Spike Tysons won the title beating Washed Up Wildcats 25-19, 25-21. Washed Up Wildcats earned a trip to the title match w...

CHICAGO (AP) - Mike Tauchman hit a game-ending homer, and the Chicago Cubs handed the Chicago White Sox their 13th consecutive loss with a 7-6 victory Wednesday night. Tauchman drove Michael Kopech's ...

HOUSTON (AP) - Nolan Arenado homered, Alec Burleson added an RBI double to back up a solid start by Miles Mikolas and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Houston Astros 4-2 on Wednesday. Burleson's hit m...

For the Waterloo Lady Bulldogs, they will be making just the program's 2nd ever trip to the IHSA State Finals with their only other run coming in 1989 when they lost their game. At 28-6, Waterloo won ...