Category Archives: Local News
Salem Boy Scouts collect more than 1,300 items of food along with cash
Participants in Saturday’s drive up food donation event sponsored by the Salem Boy Scouts. Back Row: (left to right) Dugan Mulvaney, Chip Phillips, Alex Bays, Kevin Jones, Wyatt Jones, Franklin ...
Dec 14, 2020
Salem Police Shop with a Cop brings smiles to faces of 45 kids
Police Chief Sean Reynolds learns what one of the students participating in Shop with a Cop wants for Christmas. Photo by Bruce Kropp. The Salem Police Department’s Fraternal Order of Police Sho...
Dec 14, 2020
Iuka 5th Grade Teacher WJBD-WSIQ Teacher of the Week
Iuka Fifth Grade Teacher Julie Berry with Superintendent John Consolino as she is awarded the Teacher of the Week honor by WJBD and WSIQ Radio. Photo by Bruce Kropp. Iuka Fifth Grade Teacher Julie Ber...
Dec 14, 2020
Marion County Sheriff's Department investigates burglary
The Marion County Sheriff’s Department is investigating a residential burglary to an apartment in Kinmundy. An occupant who was in the process of moving out of the apartment in the 100 block of ...
Dec 13, 2020
50 years ago, constitution updated Illinois; can it do more?
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - It was 50 years ago that Illinois voters approved a state constitution that was forward-looking and made government more efficient. A half-century later, could an update tackl...
Dec 13, 2020
Illinois fires coach Lovie Smith after 5 seasons
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) - Illinois has fired coach Lovie Smith with one game left in its ninth consecutive losing season. Smith became Illinois' first Black head football coach when he was hired by athle...
Dec 13, 2020
State reports ten COVID-19 deaths in South Central Illinois on Saturday
The Illinois Department of Public Health has announced 127 additional deaths from COVID-19 related causes on Saturday, including ten in South Central Illinois. Four of those deaths are in Marion Count...
Dec 12, 2020
Centralia man arrested for child pornography and criminal sexual abuse
An 18-year-old Centralia man has been arrested by Centralia Police for child pornography and criminal sexual abuse. Centralia Police Chief Greg Dodson says Garrick Hiltibital of Fairway Drive was arre...
Dec 12, 2020
Centralia Police arrest Centralia man on drug charges after chase
A 30-year-old Centralia man was arrested Friday night on a felony drug charge after attempting to flee a traffic stop. Centralia Police say they originally tried to stop TJ Shumley of West Broadway at...
Dec 12, 2020
U of Illinois to develop new relationships to tribes
URBANA, Ill. (AP) - The University of Illinois is putting a plan into action to establish new traditions since it retired its long-controversial Chief Illiniwek symbol 13 years ago. According to The (...
Dec 12, 2020
