Category Archives: Local News
Salem Firemen battle garage fire
Salem Fire Protection District officials say they got a quick knockdown on a garage fire early last night. The fire was in a detached garage on the David Purcell property at 2402 South Washington in S...
May 27, 2021
Police Beat for Thursday, May 27th, 2021
A 52-year-old Centralia man has been arrested for alleged domestic battery and on an Illinois Department of Corrections warrant. Centralia Police say the incident had occurred on Wednesday, but George...
May 27, 2021 Jobs For Felons Hub / CC
Voters to be asked next spring if workers should have fundamental right to unionize
Voters will be asked if Illinois workers should have a fundamental right to unionize in the March election. The amendment to the State Constitution would make it a fundamental right for workers to for...
May 27, 2021 ewe neon / CC
New scam claims to be from Secretary of State's Office
Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White's office is warning the public about new email and text scams. The scams are targeting Illinoisans...and include unsolicited text and email messages claiming to...
May 27, 2021 Widjaya Ivan / CC
Salem Police Chief says city and region battling major meth problem
Salem Police Chief Sean Reynolds told the Salem City Council during a planning session this week this is not the time to be thinking about pulling their officer out of the Southeastern Illinois Drug T...
May 27, 2021 Salem Police Chief Sean Reynolds
Salem Grade School Principal, Assistant Principal and School Resource Officer Slimed
Franklin Park Eight Grade students got their award Wednesday for soaring over the canned food drive goal. Students were selected in a drawing to dump buckets of slim over the heads of Principal Tyler ...
May 27, 2021 Franklin Park Assistant Principal Alex Koebel is 'Slimed' by Keaton Gullion (left) and Cason Osborne.
Patoka Fire Protection District takes delivery of new fire truck
The Patoka Fire Protection District has a new fire truck. Fire Chief Blake Hyde says it was delivered on Wednesday. "We are actually taking 2 trucks out of service. This truck carries 2500 gallons of ...
May 27, 2021 Patoka Fire Chief Blake Hyde stands in front of the Patoka Fire Department's new pumper-tanker truck. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Madigan's ex-chief of staff indicted for lying to grand jury
CHICAGO (AP) - The longtime chief of staff to former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan has been indicted for lying under oath to a federal grand jury investigating a bribery scheme involving Madi...
May 27, 2021 Tony Hisgett / CC
Mourners gather for slain Illinois police officer's funeral
DECATUR, Ill. (AP) - Law enforcement officers from around Illinois gathered at Maranatha Assembly of God in Decatur for the funeral of slain Champaign Police Officer Chris Oberheim. The officer was sh...
May 27, 2021 Julian & Vanessa Hsu / CC
`School of Rock' actor Kevin Clark killed in bike accident
CHICAGO (AP) - Kevin Clark, who played drummer Freddy "Spazzy McGee" Jones in the 2003 movie "School of Rock" starring Jack Black, was killed when he was struck by a car while riding his bicycle along...
May 27, 2021 Arvell Dorsey Jr. / CC
