Category Archives: Local News
Registration area of Salem Township Hospital being renovated
The registration area for patients entering Salem Township Hospital through the emergency room entrance will be renovated. Hospital President Alex Nazarian says a $217,000 contract has been awarded to...
Oct 28, 2021 Salem Township Hospital President Alex Nazarian
Salem Township Hospital adopts $15 an hour minimum wage
The Salem Township Hospital Board has adopted a $15 an hour minimum wage effective Sunday. Hospital President Alex Nazarian says about 30 employees will immediately be affected. He hopes it will help ...
Oct 28, 2021 Pictures of Money / CC
Centralia man sentenced to five years in prison on weapons charge
A 37-year-old Centralia man has been sentenced to five years in prison for unlawful use of a weapon by a felon. As part of the plea agreement, a charge of possession of methamphetamine was dropped aga...
Oct 28, 2021
Man charged with murder in death of Illinois police officer
PONTOON BEACH, Ill. (AP) - A 31-year-old southern Illinois man has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the fatal shooting of a police officer at a gas station. Scott Hyden of High...
Oct 28, 2021 Pontoon Beach Officer Tyler Timmons
Judge acquits man who lived at Chicago airport for 3 months
CHICAGO (AP) - A man who spent three months living in a secured terminal at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport instead of flying home to India as he had planned has been acquitted on a felony tres...
Oct 28, 2021 Katherine Johnson / CC
'Animalism': Blackhawks scandal raises culture questions
CHICAGO (AP) - The former player at the heart of the Chicago Blackhawks assault scandal has come forward publicly. Kyle Beach tells TSN he felt "alone and dark" in the days following the alleged assau...
Oct 28, 2021
Pritzker to visit UK, tout climate-change efforts next week
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - An Illinois mission is headed for the United Kingdom next week to discuss the state's efforts to neutralize climate change while bolstering economic development. Gov. J.B. Pri...
Oct 28, 2021 Trump White House Archived
Illinois State police release additional details on Jefferson County Courthouse shooting
Illinois State Police Division of Criminal Investigation says a 55-year-old man being led to Jefferson County Court for his trial was shot in an altercation after grabbing the correctional officer's g...
Oct 27, 2021
National Weather Service confirms tornado Sunday night near Richview
The National Weather Service has confirmed a 2.1-mile long tornado on the northwest side of Richview in Washington County on Sunday night. The tornado was rated at the lowest EF level of 0 with an est...
Oct 27, 2021
Illinois Senate repeals abortion parental notification
The Illinois Senate voted Tuesday to repeal a law requiring that parents or guardians be notified when girls younger than 18 seek an abortion. Democrats who control the General Assembly want to dump a...
Oct 27, 2021 Jim Bowen / CC
