Category Archives: Local News
Salem Recycling Center to no longer always be available
Keep Salem Beautiful has announced they will only be able to empty the recycling trailer at the Centralia Clean and Green Facility only two days a week instead of three days for the foreseeable future...
Feb 17, 2022 Keep Salem Beautiful recycling trailer.
Police Beat for Wednesday, February 16th, 2022
A 40-year-old Salem man has been arrested for violation of bail bond. Michael Bartley of North Dawley was taken to the Marion County Jail. Marion County Sheriff's Deputies arrested 36-year-old Shannon...
Feb 16, 2022
Coulterville woman hurt in three vehicle crash in Washington County
State Police say a 52-year-old Coulterville woman was airlifted from the scene of a three vehicle crash in Washington County with life threatening injuries. According to preliminary investigative deta...
Feb 16, 2022
Odin School Board approves another $500,000 in improvements to the building this summer
Odin School Superintendent Kimberly Briggs says the third story of the high school building will have bathrooms for the first time and all but the bathrooms in the kindergarten area will be renovated ...
Feb 16, 2022 Odin High School. Photo by Sam Snodsmith.
Flora police officer injured in two car crash
A Flora Police officer was injured when another car failed to yield at a stop sign on US 50 eastbound at North Olive Road in Flora Tuesday night. State Police say preliminary information indicates the...
Feb 16, 2022
Man admits he incited 2020 Chicago riots with online posts
CHICAGO (AP) - A Chicago man who posted online to urge others to join the massive crowds that were looting downtown businesses in the summer of 2020 has pleaded guilty to inciting and participating in...
Feb 16, 2022
Odin School Board approves another $500,000 in improvements to the building this summer
Odin School Superintendent Kimberly Briggs says the third story of the high school buildings will have bathrooms for the first time and all but the bathrooms in the kindergarten area will be renovated...
Feb 16, 2022 Odin High School. Photo by Sam Snodsmith.
Governor suffers another loss in keeping his mask mandates for schools
The Governor loses another round in his effort to keep students masked. The Joint Committee on Administrative Rules, which includes Democratic and Republican Lawmakers, unanimously voted Tuesday to su...
Feb 16, 2022
Fire heavily damages rural Iuka home
A fire that started around the flu heavily damaged the Vernon and Lisa Quandt home at 8833 Quandt Road southeast of Iuka Tuesday afternoon. Iuka Fire Chief Kenny Eagan says the Quandt's returned home,...
Feb 16, 2022 Iuka Fire Station
Man accused of killing State Trooper in Effingham County in 1976 released early from prison
A 71-year-old man convicted in an Illinois state trooper's 1976 killing in Effingham County has been released from prison after the state's Prisoner Review Board granted him early release. Aaron Hyche...
Feb 15, 2022 Jobs For Felons Hub / CC
