Author Archives: WJBD Staff

The 1a soccer Super Sectionals are today. Belleville Althoff takes on Sacred Heart Griffin at 7pm at Virden North Mac. Bloomington Central Catholic will take on Quincy Notre Dame at Illinois Valley Ce...

Lady Bobcats Home With Albion Tonight The Franklin Park Lady Bobcats are back home with a 2-3 record as they look to get even on the year when they host Albion tonight with the JV starting at 5:30. Ra...

Rockets Use Balanced Scoring In Win Over Kell Selmaville beat Kell in boys basketball 56-19 behind a balanced scoring attack. Wyatt McCarty led the Rockets with 15, Brendan Smith 11, Jaxon Ward and Ri...

In City of Salem/YMCA Women's Volleyball at the Community Center, Salem Tire beat You Got Served (27-25, 25-21), AOS Church beat Deep Rock (25-15, 25-8), and in 3-sets it was HD Oil Field over AOS Chu...

LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) - Chicago's Matt Eberflus received congratulations from his team's owners after their 33-14 victory Monday night denied New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick a historic vict...

MIAMI (AP) - Skip Schumaker was a candidate to take over as manager of the Boston Red Sox and New York Mets in recent years, only to see those clubs pick someone else. The Miami Marlins didn't let him...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Just four Big Ten teams are ranked in the AP Top 25, but six of the top 12 defenses in college football reside in the conference. The Big Ten's surprise team this year, Illinois ...

Putting Interest Rates into Perspective Provided by MidAmerica Financial Resources   Traditionally, we've been a little cautious when people say, "it's different this time." After all, the past f...

The BCMW/WJBD Adopt-A-Family Christmas Program will begin taking applications for disadvantaged families in Marion County beginning Tuesday, November 1, 2022. Applications will be taken Tuesday, Novem...

The City of Centralia will be looking at installing solar energy fields at some of their facilities to control electric costs that are expected to double when a new contract takes effect in February. ...