Author Archives: WJBD Staff

The South Central Lady Falcons opened up their middle school softball season yesterday with a home win over Sigel-St Michel 12-2. The Lady Falcons opened with 3 runs in the 1st inning and 3 more in th...

The Salem Youth Football League opens up their season tomorrow when they host Centralia. The 3rd/4th grade will start at 3pm, the JV at 5 and the varsity at 6:30. Salem has moved to the Jr South 7 Con...

CHICAGO (AP) - Jameson Taillon pitched five-plus innings for his fourth straight win, and the surging Chicago Cubs held on to beat Cincinnati 5-3 Thursday night, knocking the Reds out of first place i...

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Michael A. Taylor and Ryan Jeffers each hit a two-run homer, and the AL Central-leading Minnesota Twins beat the St. Louis Cardinals 5-3 on Thursday night. The Twins took two of three...

The Marion County Youth Livestock Auction at the Marion County Fairgrounds Wednesday night was a record setter. There was a record number of 4-H members who participated, with 95 auctioning off their ...

Congressional candidate and former Republican candidate for Governor Darren Bailey visited with those at the Marion County Fairgrounds Wednesday night. Conversations included the new indictments again...

Sixteen candidates are vying to be Marion County's next Junior Miss. We'll know the winner Thursday night as the Junior Miss and Little Miss competition will be held before the grandstand at the Mario...

A new electric vehicle innovation hub is coming to Decatur. Governor JB Pritzker and TCCI Manufacturing broke ground on the new facility which will support one of the first made-in-American electric c...

In Salem Recreation/YMCA men's softball scores from last night before the rain came through, ABC Pub shutout SWAG/Pour House 14-0 and Iuka State Bank also beat SWAG 10-6.

CHICAGO (AP) - Ian Happ homered twice and the Chicago Cubs easily overcame an early deficit to beat the Cincinnati Reds 16-6 on Wednesday night. Cristopher Morel, Dansby Swanson and Seiya Suzuki also ...