Category Archives: Local News

Sandoval Elementary School recognized the Students of the Month for January. The students were chosen because of their outstanding display of SELF DISCIPLINE in showing self control of emotions and fe...

UNDATED (AP) - The three-day torch relay for the Beijing Olympics has started with an 80-year-old former speedskater carrying the flame. The relay has been shortened considerably because of concerns a...

In advance of the anticipated severe winter storm expected to hit the entire state, Governor JB Pritzker Tuesday issued a disaster declaration and activated approximately 130 members of the Illinois N...

The Illinois legislature has gone home due to the winter storm, but Governor JB Pritzker will be giving his annual budget address live at the Old State Capitol on Wednesday. The Governor won't have a ...

A 19-year-old homeless Centralia man has been charged in Marion County Court with aggravated battery to a nurse. Darrion Walker is accused of groping an emergency room nurse at SSM Health St. Mary's H...

Kell Firemen used a number of pieces of fire equipment to put together a plan that successfully rescue a dog that fell through the ice of a pond Monday afternoon. Fire officials say the dog had fallen...

COVID-19 cases are finally starting to decline across most of South Central Illinois following a state trend that began three weeks ago. Meanwhile, Fayette County is reporting two additional COVID-19 ...

Jefferson County Fire Protection District Firefighters fought an early morning grass fire Tuesday morning. The fire was on the Matt Harris property in the 10,500 block of East Hutch Road southwest of ...

Marion County Health Department Administrator Melissa Mallow says now that the state has taken over most of the contact tracing for COVID-19, the health department is gearing up to restart some of its...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The NAACP is urging Attorney General Merrick Garland to bring federal civil rights charges against the white Chicago police officer who fatally shot Black teenager Laquan McDonald. N...