Author Archives: WJBD Staff

Illinois High School Boys & Girls Basketball Top 10 Poll
Here are the boys prep basketball polls with rank, team, first-place votes, record, total points and previous ranking. Class 4A School W-L Pts Prv 1. Lisle (Benet Academy) (12) 22-1 120 3 2. Moline 20...
WJBD Staff Jan 26, 2023

KC To Make Up Canceled JAL Games On Saturday
The KC basketball programs had their Wednesday night games at home with John A Logan postponed due to weather. They will make those games up on Saturday with the women tipping at 1 and the men will st...
WJBD Staff Jan 26, 2023

Here is the latest Big Ten Conference sports news from The Associated Press
UNDATED (AP) - Jahmir Young scored 22 points and Donta Scott recorded a double-double and Maryland distanced itself in the second half en route to a 73-55 win over Wisconsin. Scott's jump shot with 9:...
WJBD Staff Jan 26, 2023

Conference title games are most evenly matched in 25 years
It's been 25 years since both NFL conference championship games were this evenly matched from an oddsmakers standpoint. The San Francisco 49ers are 2 1/2-point underdogs against the Philadelphia Eagle...
WJBD Staff Jan 26, 2023

Marion County kicks off Bientennial Celebration
Marion County kicked off its Bicentennial Celebration at the courthouse Tuesday night. A large crowd filled the rotunda to look over memorabilia and an actual copy of the legislation creating the coun...
WJBD Staff Jan 25, 2023 State Representative Blaine Wilhour (left), Bicentenial Committee Chair Adam Smith (center) and Marion County Board Chair Debbie Smith with the display of the handwritten state legislative bill that made Marion County a county 200 years ago.

Marion County Circuit Clerk seeking nearly $300,000 for technology modernization
Marion County Circuit Clerk Tiffany Schicker is seeking a nearly $300,000 grant through the Illinois Court Technology Modernization program. She told the county board if any of the county offices tied...
WJBD Staff Jan 25, 2023

Police Beat for Wednesday, January 25th, 2023
Marion County Sheriff's Deputies arrested a 32-year-old Iuka man for drug and other offenses following a traffic stop Tuesday night at Jefferson and Boone in Salem. Timothy Pomeroy of South Main Stree...
WJBD Staff Jan 25, 2023

Fire heavily damages mobile home northeast of Dix
Fire has heavily damaged a mobile home occupied by the Kelly Jones family in the 11,000 block of East Sumter in rural Dix. Jefferson Fire officials say flames were already showing from the windows and...
WJBD Staff Jan 25, 2023

This is third anniversary of first confirmed COVID-19 case in Illinois
Tuesday marked the three-year anniversary of the first confirmed case of Covid-19 in Illinois. Illinois Department of Public Health Director Doctor Sameer Vohra says there was no way to know that the ...
WJBD Staff Jan 25, 2023 The National Guard / CC

Wise World of Wellen presented by Salem Eye Clinic
Wise World of Wellen presented by Salem Eye Clinic 1. Humans spend about 35 minutes a day chewing. 2. All the alien drool in the movie "Aliens" is KY Jelly. 3. The original design for the Space Needle...
WJBD Staff Jan 25, 2023
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