Category Archives: Local News
Tax records: Pritzker, wife report $5.1M income for 2020
CHICAGO (AP) - Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and his wife M.K. Pritzker reported adjusted gross income of about $5.1 million in 2020. That's according to portions of his tax returns released by the bill...
Oct 16, 2021
Three Missourians charged after Illinois woman goes missing
MARBLE HILL, Mo. (AP) - Three southeast Missouri residents are charged after an investigation into the disappearance of an Illinois woman. Bollinger County Sheriff Casey Graham said the family of 21-y...
Oct 16, 2021 Tom Britt / CC
Pritzker delays vaccine deadline for state workers in corrections and congregate facilities
CHICAGO (AP) - Illinois' governor has pushed back a deadline for state employees of veterans' homes, prisons and other congregate facilities to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as his office negotiates ...
Oct 16, 2021
Chicago mayor takes police union head to court over vaccines
CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has taken her fight with the head of the city's police officers union to court, arguing that his call for officers to ignore an order to report their COVID-...
Oct 16, 2021
Both Clinton and Jefferson Counties reporting additional COVID-19 deaths; Marion County 58 new cases
Both the Clinton and Jefferson County Health Departments are reporting additional COVID-19 related deaths. Clinton County's 102nd death was a man in his 70s and is included in their weekly report from...
Oct 15, 2021
Carlyle School District to go back to masks after temporary restraining order ends
A temporary restraining order allowing Carlyle School District students not to wear masks while inside has expired and was not extended during a Friday Clinton County Court hearing. Judge Don Sheafor ...
Oct 15, 2021 Blogtrepreneur / CC
Bond set at $1-million for rural Salem woman formally charged with armed robbery with a firearm
Judge Michael McHaney set bond at $1-million for a 39-year-old rural Salem woman formally charged in Marion County Court on Friday with armed robbery with a firearm. Christina Lewis of Woodard School ...
Oct 15, 2021
SSM Health to make COVID-19 monoclonal therapy available at St. Mary's and Good Samaritan Hospitals
SSM Health is expanding access to COVID-19 monoclonal antibody (mAb) therapies to patients at St. Mary's Hospital in Centralia and Good Samaritan Hospital in Mt. Vernon. The therapy is for people who ...
Oct 15, 2021 Fusion Medical Animation / Unsplash
Two injured in downtown Centralia crash
Centralia Police say two persons were injured in a crash in downtown Centralia on Thursday morning. Police reports indicate 31-year-old Rachel Wilson of Richmond Heights Mobile Home Park in Central Ci...
Oct 15, 2021
Governor asked about when masks may come off
Still no word on when the state's indoor mask mandate will be lifted. Masks still need to be worn for now, since Illinois isn't out of the woods yet says Governor JB Pritzker. "I want to remind you if...
Oct 15, 2021
