Author Archives: WJBD Staff

A 22-year-old St. Peter man has been sentenced to three years in prison in Marion County Court after pleading guilty to a garage burglary. Drew Gherardini of Holeman Street admitted to breaking into t...

A Taylorville attorney has won the Republican Primary to replace the at large circuit judgeship left vacant by the election of Michael McHaney of Salem to the Appellate Court. Dennis Atteberry receive...

Wise World of Wellen presented by Salem Eye Clinic 1. Texas is so big that El Paso is closer to San Diego than it is to Houston. 2. Half of the gold that's ever been found on Earth comes from the Witw...

The Salem girls track team held their home meet Tuesday at Jim Finks Field . We honored our only senior Avery Robison, she will be a 4 year varsity letter winner and is this year's team captain. Mt. V...

The Centralia Annies beat Mount Vernon at home in prep soccer 2-0. Photos by Pat Hodges:

The Salem Wildcats are on the road this afternoon at Charleston. Salem won their first game of the season after suffering 4 straight losses, as they beat Benton at SCHS Field Tuesday afternoon 11-4. C...

The Salem Lady Wildcats dropped their home opener to Mount Vernon yesterday 4-2. Mount Vernon scored 4 runs through the first four innings before Salem would make their comeback attempt. Lilly Blagoue...

The Salem Wildcats opened their outdoor season with a home meet at Jim Finks Field yesterday. Mount Vernon nipped Salem to win the meet 73.5 to 71.5 with Centralia 3rd with 34 points. Winning events f...

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Mikko Rantanen scored three goals to lead the surging Colorado Avalanche to a 4-3 victory over the St. Louis Blues on Tuesday night. "It feels good to help the team and to get the win...

For the second straight year, Purdue's Zach Edey is the unanimous headliner for The Associated Press men's college basketball All-America team. The 7-foot-4, 300-pound senior topped all 62 ballots fro...