Category Archives: Local News
Centralia man charged in connection with multiple entries to former Bell Tower Inn
Bond was set at $25,000 in Marion County Court on Monday for a 36-year-old Centralia man charged with entering the Airgo student housing facility multiple times. Jeremy Clark was charged with burglary...
Nov 23, 2021 Joe Gratz
St. Louis man charged with aggravated kidnapping and four counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse to 15-year-old Salem girl
Bond was set at $750,000 in Marion County Court Monday for a 35-year-old St. Louis man who faces aggravated kidnapping and four counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse to a 15-year-old Salem girl. ...
Nov 22, 2021 Courtney Buffkins
Bond set at $40,000 for 81-year-old Central City Man charged with criminal sexual abuse
A Marion County Judge has set bond at $40,000 for an 81-year-old Central City man who was formally charged in court Monday with criminal sexual abuse. The charge against Vince Ayala of Patterson Stree...
Nov 22, 2021 Vincent Ayala
Salem man faces weapons charges after briefly holding child in his home
Salem Police arrested a 21-year-old Salem man for unlawful use of a weapon and aggravated assault after he eventually came out of his home on his own unarmed Monday morning after briefly refusing to a...
Nov 22, 2021 Joseph Fortman
Salem Community High School Food Drive collects over 21,000 cans
The Salem Community High School Food Drive has collected at least 21,411 cans to go to the Salem Ministerial Alliance Food Pantry. The final results were announced Friday morning by Student Council Sp...
Nov 22, 2021 More than 21,000 cans of food are loaded onto a truck at Salem Community High School to go to the Salem Ministerial Alliance Food Drive. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Marion County Board to be asked to reduce number of precincts in Marion County
The Marion County Board will be asked at its December meeting to merge 22 of the county's precincts into 11. County Clerk Steve Fox is recommending the consolidation as a result of a new law signed by...
Nov 22, 2021 Marion County Clerk explains precinct changes to Marion County Board's Redistricting Committee. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Community Thanksgiving Dinner to be held for 4th year at Grace Church of the Nazarene
A community Thanksgiving Dinner will be held on Thanksgiving Day for the fourth year in Salem at the Grace Church of the Nazarene. Tammy Foltz first organized the dinner as a way to assure everyone ha...
Nov 22, 2021 Marco Verch Professional Photographer / CC
Iuka Grade School completes food drive and fund raiser for Wounded Warriors
Iuka Grade School students and staff wound up to programs to help others last week. Superintendent Sam Alli says the school's Beta Club collected 1,600 canned goods during a food drive. The food will ...
Nov 22, 2021 Iuka Beta Club Members left to right front row McKenna Meyer, Zoey Heiple, Regan Vincent and Abbey Bookhout; back row left to right Kurt Sullens, Samantha Alli, Madison Keserauskis, Ashton Hodge, and Kyle Keys.
Multiple shooters fire at crowd outside Illinois bar, 4 hurt
KANKAKEE, Ill. (AP) - Authorities say four people were injured after multiple shooters opened fire from a vehicle outside a bar in the northern Illinois town of Kankakee. More than 50 rounds were fire...
Nov 22, 2021
Central City Police arrest 81-year-old for criminal sexual abuse and unlawful restraint
Central City Police have arrested an 81-year-old Central City man on criminal sexual abuse and unlawful restraint charges. Police say Vince Ayala of Patterson Street was taken into custody on Sunday f...
Nov 22, 2021 Vincent Ayala
