Category Archives: Local News

Salem Police say a 34-year-old Salem man who had been out of jail less than three days has been arrested on additional felony retail theft charges. Damon DeBoer of South Jefferson Street allegedly too...

A 47-year-old Kinmundy man has been arrested by Marion County Sheriff's Deputies for aggravated domestic battery via strangulation. Charles Weathersby of South Monroe was taken to the Marion County Ja...

Centralia Police say a 20-year-old Centralia man was shot twice while walking on Lincoln Street in front of the Marion County Housing Authority parking lot late Thursday afternoon. Chief Greg Dodson s...

The State Department of Public Health has changed language in revised health guidelines for schools which has caused lawsuits against the South Central and Odin School Districts that were scheduled fo...

Raccoon Grade School Superintendent Misty Johannes credits a good working relationship between parents and teachers as key to their good test schools that led the district to being named one of only 1...

Salem Police have arrested a 20-year-old Salem man for alleged misdemeanor criminal sexual abuse. Detectives say Austin Unsell of East Bryan is accused of having consensual sex with a then 16-year-old...

Unemployment is up in Marion County in August from the prior month. The Illinois Department of Employment Security reports 6.5-percent of the workforce was without a job, up four-tenths of a percent f...

CHICAGO (AP) - Officials say dozens of Afghan children have arrived in Chicago as refugees evacuated from Afghanistan during the U.S. withdrawal continue to reach American cities. The unaccompanied Af...

NORTH UTICA, Ill. (AP) - Lawsuits have been filed, four months after three Chicago men died in an explosion while fishing and making a fire along the Illinois River. Lawyers believe they know how the ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (AP) - A body discovered in the Illinois River nearly three weeks ago has been confirmed as a graduate student missing from Illinois State University. Authorities say Jelani Day's id...