Category Archives: Local News
Salem High officials say three shells found on floor of locker room were accidentally brought to school
Salem High School Superintendant Dr. Brad Detering says a student has come forward to say three gun shells found on the locker room floor Friday morning belonged to the student and had been left in cl...
Dec 03, 2021
Long time member of Centralia Police Department retires
A 33-year member of the Centralia Police Department has resigned effective Thursday. Lieutenant Todd Hempen spent his entire career with the Centralia Police Department, joining the department as a pa...
Dec 03, 2021
Centralia Cultural Society presents 61st Annual Christmas Concert Sunday
The Centralia Cultural Society will present its 61st Annual Christmas Concert, "Holiday Festival of the Arts", at the Community Arts Center at 2:30 Sunday afternoon. After a year of closures because o...
Dec 03, 2021
Marion County Health Administrator waiting more information on new COVID-19 variant
Marion County Health Department Administrator Melissa Mallow says the department is waiting further information before making any recommendations specifically towards the new omicron variant of COVID-...
Dec 03, 2021 Marion County Health Department Administrator Mellissa Mallow at earlier COVID-19 vaccination clinic.
Wisconsin man formally charged with aggravated battery to a nurse
Bond was set at $7,500 in Marion County Court on Thursday for a 25-year-old Wausau, Wisconsin man charged with aggravated battery to a nurse. Jonathan Sanchez-Anaya was arrested by Salem Police after ...
Dec 03, 2021
Donations and adopters still needed for BCMW-WJBD Adopt a Family
A total of 193 families with 525 children will receive help this Christmas season through the BCMW-WJBD Radio Adopt a Family program. So far, 122 of the families have been adopted by 59 groups, indivi...
Dec 03, 2021
Centralia Firemen rescue two stranded 25 feet in air in bucket truck
Centralia City Firemen assisted two members of a tree cutting service who became stranded 25 feet in the air in a bucket truck Thursday afternoon in the 400 block of Bicknell Street. Fire department r...
Dec 03, 2021 webhamster / CC
Feds: Track coach tricked women into sending him nude photos
BOSTON (AP) - A former college track and field coach accused of setting up sham social media and email accounts in an attempt to trick female athletes into sending him nude or semi-nude photos of them...
Dec 03, 2021 Tsutomu Takasu / CC
State rests case at Smollett trial after star witnesses
CHICAGO (AP) - The state has rested its case to jurors at Jussie Smollett's trial after key testimony from two brothers who said the actor plotted a racist and anti-gay attack on himself and paid them...
Dec 02, 2021
Hoyleton man dies in Clinton County crash
A 79-year-old Hoyleton man has died in a Tuesday morning single-vehicle crash on the St. Rose Road in Clinton County. Clinton County Sheriff Dan Travous says Allen Weihe was unable to be revived after...
Dec 02, 2021 Clinton County Sheriff's Department. Photo courtesy of department's Facebook page.
