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The Salem Lady Wildcats will honor their seniors tonight with a varsity only contest against Freeburg. The honors will be at 6pm followed by the 6:30 tip that you can hear on 100.1 FM and WJBDradio.co...

The Franklin Park Bobcats will head to Centralia for their regional title game against the host Tigers. Game time set for 6pm with the winner advancing to Saturday, February 10s opening game against t...

The Class S State Tournament opens Saturday at Rend Lake. WJBD will be broadcasting the Central City Citians opener against Rome at 9:30. The winner will play on Monday against either Tamaroa/St Bruno...

6th ranked Vincennes held KC to 36 points under their season scoring average in a 75-52 victory in Centralia. The Trailblazers picked up their 20th win at 20-2 for the 58th time in the last 62 basketb...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Coby White scored 35 points, Nikola Vucevic added 22 points and 12 rebounds and the Chicago Bulls outlasted Charlotte 117-110 on Wednesday night to send the Hornets to their fif...

Illinois High School Girls Basketball Top 10 Poll Class 4A School W-L Pts Prv 1. Loyola (4) 29-0 66 1 2. Alton (3) 25-1 64 2 3. Bolingbrook 21-2 55 3 4. Nazareth 21-3 38 5 5. Maine South 25-1 37 4 6. ...

Believe It or DON'T On this day in 1790, the U.S. Supreme Court met for the first time. Believe It or DON'T On this day in 1887, one Harvey Wilcox subdivided 120 acres of land that he owned in Souther...

The City of Centralia has received a $600,000 state grant to create a new playground in Fairview Park while Central City will receive $599,600 for improvements to Lions Park. The money is part of $54....

Mt. Vernon Fire Chief Kevin Sargent says eight people were temporarily displaced following an apartment house fire on Monday. The fire started in the Ratesha Turner apartment in the 700 block of South...

Centralia Police have arrested a 37-year-old Centralia woman for aggravated domestic battery and endangering the health and life safety of a child. Denese Sharkey of East Third was taken to the Marion...