Category Archives: Local News
Centralia Junior High Band to get new uniforms; graduation set
The Centralia Grade School Board has approved the purchase of new uniforms for the Junior High School band. The uniforms will cost $48,039. The board set eighth-grade graduation for Tuesday, May 17th ...
Mar 10, 2022 Flag corps of Centralia Junior High Band in 2021 Little Egypt Festival Parade in Salem.
Good Samaritan Hospital Auxiliary donates $54,000 to Cancer Care Program
The Good Samaritan Hospital Auxiliary has donated $54,000 to the SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital Cancer Care Program. It is part of the group's four year pledge. While 2021 presented some unique ch...
Mar 10, 2022 $54,000 donaton check from SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital Auxillary. Front (L to R) Nancy Germann, Becky Pierce, Marietta Lamberson, Pat Garren, Virginia Rubenacker, Zeny Jayne, Jane Byars, Pat Panarese. Back (L to R) Mike Baumgartner, Regional President, SSM Health Southern Illinois, Derek Shaw, Director of Volunteer Services & Guest Relations, Brenda Cain, Arlene Cook, Jeremy Bradford, President, SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital.
Wayne County woman killed in two-vehicle crash
Illinois State Police say a 68-year-old Geff woman was killed when her SUV collided with a semi-truck in Wayne County during the noon hour on Wednesday. The person killed is identified as Kathy Richar...
Mar 09, 2022
Two more incumbent Marion County Board members file for re-election
Two more incumbent Marion County Board members filed for re-election on Wednesday. They are Republican Creighton Engel in Board District Two and Republican Adam Smith in Board District Five. Filing fo...
Mar 09, 2022
Madigan pleads not guilty in racketeering, bribery case
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan has pleaded not guilty to racketeering and bribery. Madigan entered the plea through an attorney Wednesday in U.S. District Court...
Mar 09, 2022
3 federal lawsuits including one in Illinois accuse Salvation Army of wage violations
NEW YORK (AP) - The Salvation Army is being accused in three lawsuits of violating federal labor law by not paying minimum wage to participants in its work-based rehabilitation programs. The lawsuits ...
Mar 09, 2022 Ryan McFarland / CC
4 dead when SUV hits freight train in suburban Chicago
HARVEY, Ill. (AP) - Authorities say four people died in a south Chicago suburb when an SUV hit the last rail car of a moving freight train at a crossing and caught fire. Harvey city spokesman Jason Ba...
Mar 09, 2022 Lise1011 / CC
Flora man charged with Class X Drug-Induced Homicide
A 52-year-old Flora man has been arrested for a Class X felony of Drug-Induced Homicide. Phillip Blaine Henson is charged in connection with the November 17th, death of 54-year-old Stephanie Harrell o...
Mar 09, 2022
Police Beat for Wednesday, March 9th, 2022
Salem Police have arrested a 33-year-old Odin man on multiple charges following a pedestrian stop at Spruce and Tulsa Streets on Tuesday. Travis Juds was taken to the Marion County Jail for possession...
Mar 09, 2022
Centralia juvenile injured in car-deer crash on Selmaville Road
A 16-year-old male juvenile was injured in a car-deer crash on the Selmaville Road south of U.S. 50 early Tuesday morning. Marion County Sheriff's Deputies say the juvenile from Centralia was transpor...
Mar 09, 2022
