Category Archives: Local News
Spanish Teacher from Oregon High School 2022 Illinois Teacher of the Year
The 2022 Illinois Teacher of the Year is Oregon High School Spanish Teacher Kimberly Radostits. Radostits clearly remembers the struggles she had when one particular freshman student declared that he ...
Aug 7, 2022 2023 Illinois Teacher of the Year Kim Radostits.
More police promised for Chicago trains after fatal shooting
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Officials are pledging to reinforce security on Chicago Transit Authority trains after the shooting death of a passenger. Twenty-nine-year-old Diuntel Moon was shot multiple t...
Aug 7, 2022
Marion County Fair Grandstand sells out for Friday night demolition derby
The Marion County Fair Demolition Derby was performed to a full grandstand Friday night. In the stock car class, Brandon Dodson of Texico took best of show and finished fourth. The winner was Kyle Sim...
Aug 6, 2022 Marion County Demolition Derby action Friday night at the Fairgrounds. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Marion County remains at high community spread level for COVID-19
Marion County remains at the high community spread level for COVID-19. However, the CDC's COVID tracker indicates the number of cases in Marion County during the past week fell 24 percent to 102 cases...
Aug 6, 2022 Raed Mansour / CC
Centralia house fire confined to electrical outlet
A Centralia family woke up Saturday morning to their dogs barking and discovered a fire shooting out of an outlet behind an entertainment center. Centralia City Firemen say the fire was at the Robert ...
Aug 6, 2022
Centralia City Firemen called to train engine fire
Centralia City Firemen were called to a train engine on fire early Saturday morning. Firefighters say a Burlington Northern Railroad crew noticed the second engine of a coal train had lost power when ...
Aug 6, 2022 Marty Bernard
Prosecutors file three new felony charges in Marion County Court
Three new felony charges were filed in Marion County Court on Friday. 39-year-old Steven Cody of South Pine in Centralia was charged with burglary. He was arrested by Centralia Police for allegedly en...
Aug 6, 2022 Marion County Courthouse
Police Beat for Saturday, August 6th, 2022
A 53-year-old Centralia man has been arrested by Centralia Police on two counts of resisting arrest. Brock Linder, who told authorities he was homeless, was taken to the Marion County Jail. Marion Cou...
Aug 6, 2022
Officials: Central Illinois day care worker has monkeypox
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) - Health officials say a central Illinois daycare worker has monkeypox but that it has not spread to others at the center. They say the worker at the unidentified daycare in the v...
Aug 6, 2022 Jernej Furman / CC
State Police release more details on I-57 fatal crash north of Dix
State Police have released more details on a car-semi crash that killed one person and resulted in a second being airlifted to a regional hospital. Police say the driver of the car that was killed was...
Aug 5, 2022
