Category Archives: Local News
Salem man arrested for multiple charges following entry to oil field facility
The Marion County Sheriff's Department has arrested a 40-year-old Salem man for burglary, criminal damage to property and theft of a motor vehicle in connection with a Sunday incident at a Rural Count...
Nov 16, 2021
Rural Salem man arrested on child pornography charges
A 40-year-old rural Salem man has been arrested on ten counts of child pornography. The Illinois Crimes Against Children Task Force developed the case against Anthony Phillips of McCoy Road and then w...
Nov 16, 2021
Hours of Salem City Hall changing
The hours of Salem City Hall will be changing with the first of the year. The Salem City Council Monday night agreed to move the opening time to 7:30 and also close a half hour earlier at 4:30 pm. Cit...
Nov 16, 2021
Salem Planning Commission to hold public hearing on allowing use of shipping containers
After considerable discussion Monday night, the Salem City Council agreed to go through the public hearing process in front of the planning commission to decide if shipping containers could be used as...
Nov 16, 2021 techmsg / CC
Salem City Council upset by vandalism to new inclusive playground
Salem city council members were upset Monday night to learn there had already been vandalism to the new Salem Lions Addy and Friends Inclusive Playground in Bryan Memorial Park. Public Works Director ...
Nov 16, 2021 Sign at entrance to Addy and Friends Inclusive Playground.
Law eases voting for disabled, broadens sex designations
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The Illinois governor has signed a law making voting easier for persons with disabilities and creating a group to study the removal of further barriers. The law Gov. J.B. Prit...
Nov 16, 2021 Trump White House Archived
Rural Mt. Vernon man hurt when hitting horse drawn buggy
A rural Mt. Vernon man was injured when his SUV hit the rear of a horse drawn buggy on State Route 142 between Belle Rive and Opdyke Sunday night. Jefferson Fire Protection District officials say Tyle...
Nov 15, 2021 Bernard Spragg. NZ
Number of COVID-19 cases jump 43-percent in Marion County last week
The number of COVID 19 cases jumped 43-percent in Marion County last week. The CDC County COVID tracker shows 117 new cases. That put the county's rate of infection at 315 per one-hundred thousand, mo...
Nov 15, 2021 Raed Mansour / CC
Centralia and State Police investigating early Monday morning shooting
Centralia Police say multiple gunshots were fired at the Amy Mohogdam home on DeAnn Drive early Monday morning. Police Chief Greg Dodson says Moghadam was home at the time but was not injured. The sho...
Nov 15, 2021
South Central FFA completes two community service projects
Members of the South Central FFA Chapter have completed two community service projects. The FFA members started by picking up trash and other litter from along a two-mile stretch of Highway 37 from th...
Nov 15, 2021
