Category Archives: Local News
Centralia man charged with two counts of predatory criminal sexual assault (updated 2:45 pm 3/30/22)
Centralia Police arrested a 23-year-old city man on Monday on a Jefferson County warrant charging two Class X offenses of predatory criminal sexual assault to a victim under 13. Adam Prusz made his fi...
Mar 30, 2022
Search turns up potential evidence where body was earlier found
Jefferson County Coroner Roger Hayse is hoping to have results in as soon as two weeks from a forensic anthropologist that may lead to the identity of human remains found just southwest of Mt. Vernon ...
Mar 30, 2022 Search for evidence on Tuesday in area human remains were found earlier this month. Photo from Jefferson County Sheriff's Department Facebook page.
Two Mt. Vernon residents hurt in rollover crash on Richview Road
Two Mt. Vernon residents were injured in a rollover crash on Richview Road near I-57 during the noon hour on Tuesday. Jefferson County Sheriff Jeff Bullard says a tire is believed to have blown on a p...
Mar 30, 2022
One person injured in three vehicle crash on West Main Street in Salem
Salem Police say one person was injured in a three vehicle crash on West Main Street at South Franklin Street late Tuesday afternoon. Police report a pickup truck driven by a 17-year-old Sandoval male...
Mar 30, 2022 Crash on West Main at Franklin. Photo by Darren Dwyer.
Illinois State Police celebrate 100th Anniversary
The Illinois State Police is set to celebrate its 100th anniversary. The State Police began April 1, 1922 with a Director and eight highway patrolmen. The mission originally was to protect new roads f...
Mar 30, 2022 Illinois State Troopers at 100th Anniversary Celebration in Springfield.
Two Salem men sentenced for sex offender registration violations
Two Salem men have been sentenced in Marion County Court for failure to report a change of an address for a sex offender. 53-year-old Christopher Phillips of England Road was sentenced to 30 months pr...
Mar 30, 2022
Vandalia woman sentenced to two years in prison for possession of meth
A 28-year-old Vandalia woman has been sentenced in Marion County Court to two years in prison after pleading guilty to possession of less than five grams of methamphetamine. Joeitta Mansker of West Ed...
Mar 30, 2022
Two Salem juveniles refuse hospital treatment following rollover crash
Marion County Sheriff's Deputies report two 16-year-old male juveniles from Salem declined hospital treatment for apparent minor injuries following a rollover crash Tuesday night on Charleston Road no...
Mar 30, 2022
Central City home heavily damaged in late Tuesday afternoon fire
A fire of undetermined cause heavily damaged the Daniel Russell home at 1405 North Elm in Central City late Tuesday afternoon. Centralia Fire Protection District Chief Ross Boshera says no one was hom...
Mar 29, 2022 Centralia Fire Protection District Captain Doug Long opens an attic vent over the front porch in the third photo to vent the attic and check to make sure the fire hadn’t spread. Photo by Tim Ferguson.
SSM Health in Illinois to lift visitor restrictions due to COVID-19 decrease
SSM Health St Mary's Hospital in Centralia and Good Samaritan Hospital in Mt. Vernon is lifting visitor restrictions as COVID-19 cases fall. Beginning Thursday, March 31, all SSM Health facilities in ...
Mar 29, 2022
