Category Archives: Local News
Chicago council to consider gang asset seizure proposal
CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago authorities could seize street gang members' property under a proposed ordinance headed for a vote in the full City Council. The council's Public Safety Committee approved Mayor...
Feb 20, 2022 Raed Mansour / CC
Centralia swears in two experienced police officers
The City of Centralia has sworn in two new experienced police officers through the lateral transfer program. They are Roxzen Styninger who has been a Washington County Sheriff's Deputy for the past tw...
Feb 19, 2022 Centralia Police Chief Greg Dodson (center) welcomes two new police officers Roxzen Styninger (left) and Mickey Jader (right) to the department after they are sworn in Thursday afternoon.
One person injured in crash on Route 37 near Dix
One person was injured in a single pickup truck crash on Route 37 south of Rileyville Road in rural Dix early Friday night. Jefferson Fire Protection District officials say Christopher Crawford of Boy...
Feb 19, 2022
Centralia man faces felony weapons charge
A 46-year-old Centralia man was charged in Marion County Court on Friday with a felony weapons charge following an early Friday morning traffic stop by Centralia Police. Christopher Taulbee of North H...
Feb 19, 2022
Clinton County man sentenced for attempting to entice and enticing a minor
A 26-year-old Damiansville man has been sentenced to 188 months imprisonment for attempted enticement of a minor and enticement of a minor. Paul Jansen will serve sentences on both charges concurrentl...
Feb 19, 2022
Saturday update: Most flooded roads reopen; roads in parts of Central and North Illinois still snow and ice-covered
While the light covering of snow and ice quickly melted in the sunshine in South Central Illinois on Friday, many roads on Saturday remain mostly to partially covered with ice and snow in the northern...
Feb 19, 2022 File photo of flooding on Brick Hill Road below the Raccoon Lake dam. Photo by Tim Ferguson.
Five State Police squad cars hit while working the winter storm
Illinois State Police say five State Troopers were struck while trying to assist motorists in Central and North Illinois during the blizzard-like conditions on Thursday. Only one of the crashes involv...
Feb 19, 2022 One of the Illinois State Police cars damaged in collissions during the most recent winter storm.
I-39 in central Illinois reopens after pileup in snowstorm
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (AP) - A stretch of interstate in central Illinois that had closed after a pileup involving about 100 cars, trucks, and big rigs in a blinding snowstorm fully reopened Friday. There ...
Feb 19, 2022 Marcin Wichary / CC
Survey: farm prices, equipment sales soar across 10 states including Illinois
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A new monthly survey of bankers released Thursday says the strength of the economy in rural parts of 10 Plains and Western states including Illinois continues to drive farmland pric...
Feb 19, 2022 Tom Bower / CC
Widow pleads guilty to role in late cop husband's scheme
CHICAGO (AP) - The widow of a northern Illinois police officer who killed himself in 2015 amid an investigation into his theft of thousands of dollars from a youth program has pleaded guilty to a char...
Feb 19, 2022
