Category Archives: Local News
3 federal lawsuits including one in Illinois accuse Salvation Army of wage violations
NEW YORK (AP) - The Salvation Army is being accused in three lawsuits of violating federal labor law by not paying minimum wage to participants in its work-based rehabilitation programs. The lawsuits ...
Mar 9, 2022 Ryan McFarland / CC
4 dead when SUV hits freight train in suburban Chicago
HARVEY, Ill. (AP) - Authorities say four people died in a south Chicago suburb when an SUV hit the last rail car of a moving freight train at a crossing and caught fire. Harvey city spokesman Jason Ba...
Mar 9, 2022 Lise1011 / CC
Flora man charged with Class X Drug-Induced Homicide
A 52-year-old Flora man has been arrested for a Class X felony of Drug-Induced Homicide. Phillip Blaine Henson is charged in connection with the November 17th, death of 54-year-old Stephanie Harrell o...
Mar 9, 2022
Police Beat for Wednesday, March 9th, 2022
Salem Police have arrested a 33-year-old Odin man on multiple charges following a pedestrian stop at Spruce and Tulsa Streets on Tuesday. Travis Juds was taken to the Marion County Jail for possession...
Mar 9, 2022
Centralia juvenile injured in car-deer crash on Selmaville Road
A 16-year-old male juvenile was injured in a car-deer crash on the Selmaville Road south of U.S. 50 early Tuesday morning. Marion County Sheriff's Deputies say the juvenile from Centralia was transpor...
Mar 9, 2022
Marion County Sheriff proposing better search of incoming prisoners
Marion County Sheriff Andy Garden told the Marion County Board Tuesday night he expects to receive $120,000 from the Illinois Department of Corrections for housing their prisoners when they were refus...
Mar 9, 2022 Marion County Sheriff Andy Garden addresses the Marion County Board Tuesday night on his decision not to seek election. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Canadian truck driver injured in I-57 crash near Kinmundy
A 70-year-old Ontario, Canada truck driver was injured when his rig left northbound I-57 just south of the Kinoka Road interchange near Kinmundy early Wednesday morning. Kinmundy-Alma Fire Chief Kevin...
Mar 9, 2022
Fire damages home just west of Mt. Vernon
A fire heavily damaged a garage and roof of an adjoining home just west of Mt. Vernon Tuesday afternoon. Jefferson Fire Protection District officials say heavy fire was showing from the garage upon th...
Mar 9, 2022
Central City home heavily damaged by fire
A Central City home received heavy fire damage Tuesday afternoon. Centralia Fire Protection District Chief Ross Boshera says Jesse and Latonya Neal of 1431 North Elm along with three children were all...
Mar 9, 2022 Fire heavily damages the Jesse and Latonya Neal home at 1431 Elm on Tuesday afternoon. Photo by Brady Toennies.
Marion County Supervisor of Assessments office removes 594 property exemptions increasing tax revenue
Marion County Supervisor of Assessments Mark Miller told the Marion County Board Tuesday night that the first year of the TrueRoll Exemption Project has put nearly $10-million in market value back on ...
Mar 9, 2022 Marion County Supervisor of Assessments Mark Miller.
