Category Archives: Local News
Police Beat for Sunday, February 6th, 2022
A 24-year-old Centralia woman has been arrested on a Marion County felony failure to appear warrant. Romy McAlexander of Dover Street was originally taken into custody in Clinton County and transporte...
Feb 06, 2022
Road conditions improve greatly from Friday morning
The Illinois Department of Transportation reports the Interstate highways and major state and US routes across Southern Illinois are clear of ice and snow Saturday morning. If you are traveling north,...
Feb 05, 2022 A busy day of clearing roads the past two days by area street departments, but the snow plows even got stuck at times. Photo by Linda Meyer.
Sangamon County Judge temporarily halts masking and quarantining for many schools, Governor immediately appeals
A Sangamon County Circuit Court Judge has granted a request from Greenville Attorney Thomas DeVore to temporarily halt the Governor's executive order requiring schools to require masking and quarantin...
Feb 05, 2022
Governor to require nursing home and other long term care workers to get COVID vaccine booster
Governor JB Pritzker has signed a new executive order requiring those working in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities to get a COVID-19 booster vaccine by March 15th. The Governor also ex...
Feb 05, 2022
Police beat for Saturday, February 5th, 2022
Centralia Police arrested a 34-year-old Centralia woman on a Marion County failure to appear warrant in a pending felony criminal trespass to property charge. Angel Peters of South Maple is being held...
Feb 05, 2022
Stalled school bus struck by Chicago-area commuter train
ORLAND PARK, Ill. (AP) - A commuter train struck the front-end of a school bus that stalled on tracks in suburban Chicago. The driver and the five students aboard the bus were able to exit before the ...
Feb 05, 2022 Tomash Devenishek / CC
Drew Peterson gets another chance to fight murder conviction
CHICAGO (AP) - Former suburban Chicago police Sgt. Drew Peterson is getting another chance to ask a judge to vacate his 2012 conviction in the murder of his third wife. A hearing Monday will be before...
Feb 05, 2022
Woman alleges poppy seed cake led to positive opiate test
CHICAGO (AP) - A suburban Chicago woman alleges that a hospital tested her for drugs without her consent before she gave birth and the resulting false positive for opiates led to months of monitoring ...
Feb 05, 2022 Betsy Weber / CC
Chicago couple charged in $2.1M retail theft from warehouse
CAROL STREAM, Ill. (AP) - A Chicago couple has been charged with the theft of merchandise valued at more than $2 million from a retail distribution company. The DuPage County State's Attorney's Office...
Feb 05, 2022
All Marion County Roads now plowed; conditions improving following 6" snow (2:45 pm update)
Road conditions continue to improve a day after a major winter storm moved through the area dumping ice and six inches of snow that was blown around by a nearly 40 mile per hour wind. Major highways a...
Feb 04, 2022 While the roads have been a challenge, there's been a lot of fun in the snow as well. Here is one of 100s of snow photos submitted to the WJBD Facebook Page submitted by Rene Crouse. Make sure to visit our Facebook page to see all the photos and enter one of your own!
