Category Archives: Local News
Fire heavily damages rural Centralia home
Fire heavily damaged the Tim Ferguson home at 23-44 Meadow Lane just outside Centralia early Thursday morning. The fire was apparently set off by Ferguson's minivan that blew up in the garage around f...
Aug 26, 2021
Mt. Vernon Police asking for the public's help for information on shooting of 17-year-old
Mt. Vernon Police Chief Trent Page is asking the public's help for information on a shooting in the area of 17th and Perkins early Tuesday night. Page says a 17-year-old juvenile male was taken to the...
Aug 26, 2021
Two arrested following Jefferson County traffic stop; stolen gun from Marion County recovered
Two people are in custody following a traffic stop by Mt. Vernon Police and Jefferson County Sheriff's Deputies in the Waltonville area. Drugs and a dozen firearms, including one stolen from Marion Co...
Aug 26, 2021
Man successfully flees attempted traffic stop by Centralia Police
Centralia Police Chief Greg Dodson says a man first fled a traffic stop and then abandoned his car and fled on foot Wednesday afternoon. Dodson says the initial traffic stop was attempted in the north...
Aug 26, 2021
Bond set at $75,000 for man found with large amount of heroin following Jefferson County crash
Bond has been set at $75,000 for a 32-year-old Mt. Vernon man who was formally charged in Jefferson County Court at Mt. Vernon on Wednesday with possession of between 100 and 400 grams of heroin. Jeff...
Aug 26, 2021
Governor not planning to back down on masking requirements at schools
Governor JB Pritzker is making his stance on school masking clear. Several school districts are on probation with the state for not following a mandate for all staff and students to wear a mask, wheth...
Aug 26, 2021 Governor Pritzker gives mask update at Wednesday news conference.
Salem Township Hospital feeling impact of COVID-19
Salem Township Hospital is seeing a jump in inpatients and greater outpatient usage as a result of the growing number of COVID-19 cases across the area. Hospital President and CEO Alex Nazarian says w...
Aug 26, 2021
DNA on cigarette leads to arrest in Salem burglary case
Salem Police say DNA recovered from a cigarette has led to the arrest of a 24-year-old Salem man for a burglary in April of last year. 24-year-old Dustin Taylor of Hotze Road was taken into custody fo...
Aug 26, 2021
Sandoval man arrested in connection with Salem and Marion County burglaries
A 33-year-old Sandoval man has been arrested in connection with three burglary cases, one at Little Egypt Golf Cars on South Broadway in Salem and at two currently unoccupied homes in rural Odin and S...
Aug 26, 2021
Police Beat for Thursday, August 26th, 2021
Salem Police have arrested 41-year-old Ricky McIntosh on an outstanding warrant for failure to appear in court on a dangerous drugs case. He was located at a home in the 200 block of North Pearl where...
Aug 26, 2021
