Category Archives: Local News
COVID-19 numbers showing concerning increase statewide
Nearly 2,000 cases of COVID-19 were reported Thursday in Illinois, the highest one day total since early May. The number of new cases has been rising in recent weeks. Governor JB Pritzker says they ar...
Jul 23, 2021
Unemployment jumps across region in June
Unemployment was up significantly in South Central Illinois in June from a month earlier, but the number in the work force also increased. The Illinois Department of Employment Security reports 6.9-pe...
Jul 23, 2021 Innov8social / CC
Fire destroys car later reported as stolen
The Marion County Sheriff's Department is investigating the cause of a fire that destroyed a car while it was parked on a field road off the 2100 block of Norton Road in rural Odin. The owner of the v...
Jul 23, 2021
Two transferred to St. Louis hospital following crash at Boulder Road and U.S. 50
Clinton County Sheriff's officials say two people were airlifted to a St. Louis Hospital Tuesday afternoon after their vehicle missed the stop sign on Boulder Road and ran into the side of an eastboun...
Jul 22, 2021 Clinton County Sheriff's Department. Photo courtesy of department's Facebook page.
Centralia man arrested following bicycle chase
Centralia Police have arrested a 22-year-old man who fled on his bicycle when they attempted to stop him Wednesday morning. Police say Rayveion Crusby-Daniels matched the description of a person seen ...
Jul 22, 2021
Two arrested on drug charges following separate traffic stops
A 50-year-old Centralia man was arrested on multiple drug charges after he was searched following an early Thursday morning traffic stop. Centralia Police arrested Jackie Scanlan of West Broadway for ...
Jul 22, 2021
Police Beat for Thursday, July 22nd, 2021
A 24-year-old Wamac man has been arrested on an outstanding Marion County felony warrant and Clay County traffic warrant. Coleman Ross of Frazier Street in Wamac was taken to the Marion County Jail wh...
Jul 22, 2021
Two enter guilty pleas to felony charges in Marion County Court
A 49-year-old Centralia woman has entered a negotiated plea in Marion County Court to a felony domestic battery charge. Angelia Leidner of South Sycamore was placed on two years probation, given credi...
Jul 22, 2021
Chicago party bus shooting wounds 8 amid rising gun violence
CHICAGO (AP) - Police say a drive-by shooting in Chicago wounded eight people who had been riding on a party bus, one of several shootings in the city that left at least three people dead on the same ...
Jul 22, 2021 Arvell Dorsey Jr. / CC
Lawsuit seeks return of Columbus statue to Chicago park
CHICAGO (AP) - An Italian-American organization has filed a lawsuit seeking to force the Chicago Park District to return a Christopher Columbus statue to its pedestal in the city's Little Italy neighb...
Jul 22, 2021 Dan Keck
