Category Archives: Local News
Unemployment drops in Marion and surrounding counties in October
Unemployment in Marion County dropped to 4.6-percent in October, down nine-tenths of a percent from September and 1.4-percent from a year ago. The State Department of Employment Security reported the ...
Nov 27, 2021 Innov8social / CC
Police Beat for Saturday, November 27th, 2021
A 53-year-old Sandoval man has been arrested by Sandoval Police for aggravated domestic battery. Cedric Bradley of Old US 51 remained in the Marion County Jail on Saturday. 34-year-old Chrystal Smith ...
Nov 27, 2021
No holiday lights for Capitol Dome. Again
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The Capitol dome in Springfield will be without holiday lights for the third straight year. Officials say the same structural issue involving an observation deck that kept wor...
Nov 27, 2021 Matt Turner / CC
Salem Elks present $5,500 grant to local chapter of Sleep in Heavenly Peace
The Salem Elks has presented a $5,500 check to the local chapter of Sleep in Heavenly Peace. The Elk's Mike Hooe was about to get the money in a National Elks Foundation grant. "We are always looking ...
Nov 26, 2021 The Salem Elks present a $5,500 check to Sleep in Heavenly Sleep. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Mt. Vernon home heavily damaged by fire
A Mt. Vernon home was heavily damaged by fire Friday morning. Mt. Vernon city firefighters say no one was at home at the residence in the 1200 block of Harlan Road when the fire was discovered around ...
Nov 26, 2021
Nearly 1,200 dinners served in two Community Thanksgiving Dinners held on Thursday
A large number of Thanksgiving dinners were served during Community Thanksgiving Dinners in both Salem and Centralia on Thursday. Final tallies show 800 meals were served or delivered from the Poplar ...
Nov 26, 2021 Wamac Mayor Butch Mathis (front left) and Centralia Mayor Bryan Kuder help serve up the Thanksgiving Dinner at the Poplar Place in Centralia last year.
Fire destroys Centralia home and outbuilding
A small residential unit attached to an outbuilding at 1237 Case Street in Centralia was destroyed by fire Thursday night. Centralia City Firemen say the entire building had heavy flames showing upon ...
Nov 26, 2021 Centralia City Firefighters work to put out a fire in a small residential unit attached to an outbuilding on Dover Street. Photo by Brady Toennies.
Shed destroyed in rural Iuka fire Thanksgiving Day
A 20 by 25 foot shed on the Mary Henderson property at 70-77 Quail Run Road in rural Iuka was destroyed during a Thanksgiving Day Fire. Iuka Fire Chief Kenny Eagan says Henderson looked outside when h...
Nov 26, 2021 Iuka Fire Station
Centralia man holds police at bay for three hours after allegedly getting stolen car stuck near Junction City
Marion and Clinton County Sheriff's Deputies worked for more than three hours on Thanksgiving Day to diffuse a situation involving a man who allegedly got a stolen car stuck and then reportedly displa...
Nov 26, 2021 James Sheriff / CC
Marion County Jail inmate could face new charges
A 34-year-old Salem man could face additional charges after breaking a light in his cell and then attempting to use the wires to light a homemade cigarette. Marion County Sheriff's officials have aske...
Nov 26, 2021
