Category Archives: Local News
Pritzker working remotely after contact with infected worker
CHICAGO (AP) - Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker will be working remotely through the weekend after he had close contact with a state employee who tested positive for COVID-19. The governor's office said We...
Jan 05, 2022
Metro-East officer shoots, wounds man following disturbance
SOUTH ROXANA, Ill. (AP) - A Metro-East police chief says he's asked state police to investigate an overnight incident in which an officer shot and wounded a man following a disturbance. South Roxana P...
Jan 05, 2022
3 teens face attempted murder charges after school shooting
ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) - Three teenage boys face attempted murder and other charges in a shooting outside a northern Illinois high school that wounded two students. The Winnebago County State's Attorney ...
Jan 05, 2022 Alan Levine / CC
US Census Survey: Parents increased quality time at pandemic's start
A new report from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that parents shared more meals and spent more quality time together with their children at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic than they had in pre...
Jan 05, 2022 Karl Baron / CC
Salem sees little commercial activity but strong year for residential improvements in 2021
The City of Salem annual building permit reports little commercial activity, but a robust year for residential additions and the addition of garage and storage buildings. Permits were also issued for ...
Jan 05, 2022
Kaskaskia College to Host Spring Enrollment Day this Saturday
Kaskaskia College will hold a Special Saturday Enrollment Day at the main campus and all Education Centers this Saturday, January 8 from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The special enrollment day is for all ne...
Jan 05, 2022
St. Louis man pleads to drug charge in exchange for sex abuse charge being dropped
A 37-year-old St. Louis man has pleaded guilty in Marion County Court to a felony drug charge in exchange for prosecutors dropping a criminal sexual abuse charge. Donnate Bass was sentenced to two yea...
Jan 05, 2022
Mascoutah man pleads guilty to aggravated battery to a Centralia Police Officer
A 30-year-old Mascoutah man pleaded guilty in Marion County Court Wednesday to a charge of aggravated battery to a Centralia peace officer. Tyler Duke admitted to shoving an officer after police were ...
Jan 05, 2022
Police Beat for Wednesday, January 5th, 2022
Six people were brought to the Marion County Jail on Tuesday. 34-year-old Timothy Burton of West 16th in Centralia was arrested by Wamac Police on a felony failure to appear in court warrant with bond...
Jan 05, 2022
Prosecutor: Illinois cop was disarmed, killed with own gun
KANKAKEE, Ill. (AP) - A prosecutor says a police officer fatally shot last week at a northern Illinois hotel pleaded for her life before a man allegedly shot her to death with her own gun after she wa...
Jan 05, 2022
