Author Archives: WJBD Staff

A 41-year-old rural Texico man has been charged in Jefferson County Court with two Class X felony counts of armed violence and being a felon in possession of a weapon following an investigation that b...

The Salem City Council has approved the rezoning of property at 201 West Lake Street just west of the Casey's Store. It had been zoned residential. It will now be zoned as highway business. A new owne...

Ameren Illinois officials say it is not clear what caused a two and a half hour power outage to most of Salem early Tuesday morning during heavy thunderstorm activity. The outage began at 3:12 am and ...

Salem Interim City Manager Annette Sola says several improvements are planned as part of the fiscal year 2025 budget. She continued her review of the proposed budget at Monday night's City Council mee...

The Wamac City Council on Monday evening approved a motion to appropriate $92,000 in Motor Fuel Tax money to oil and chip the city's streets in 2024. The expenditure approved by the council includes t...

Photos of the Centralia Annies loss to Mascoutah 16-7.   By Pat Hodges:

After a pair of wins over Belleville West and Triad on Saturday, the 6-6 Salem Wildcats try to improve on their 0-1 Cahokia record when they travel to Freeburg today. The Midgets are 6-4 on the season...

The Salem Lady Wildcats softball team takes their 7-2 record to Freeburg this afternoon. The SC Lady Cougars are in action today at home against Altamont. The Lady Cougars are coming off a tight 2-1 w...

The Spring YMCA Women's A League Volleyball played last night at the Salem Community Central. Gold Diggers needed 3 sets to beat Washed Up Wildcats (25-20, 13-25, 15-13). It was Bierman's General Stor...

SAN DIEGO (AP) - Willson Contreras and Brendan Donovan each hit a two-run home run, Kyle Gibson was dominant in his St. Louis debut and the Cardinals won 6-2 Monday night against their former manager ...