Category Archives: Local News
Salem woman pleads guilty to felony obstructing justice charge
A 38-year-old Salem woman has pleaded guilty in Marion County Court to a felony obstructing justice charge. Jennifer Brandon also known as Jennifer Sloat of North College Street admitted to giving a M...
Oct 20, 2021 Blogtrepreneur / CC
Central City School Board rehires coaches for the coming year
The Central City School Board Tuesday night rehired all of their coaches and sponsors for the remainder of the school year. Jared McDonal will remain heat boys basketball coach, Tom Altenbaumer girls ...
Oct 20, 2021 Bill Smith / CC
Police Beat for Wednesday, October 20th, 2021
A 42-year-old Centralia woman has been arrested by Centralia Police for felony fraud. Kelly Schuchmann of Lowery Street in Odin is accused of using another person's identity information to open an acc...
Oct 20, 2021
Governor hoping for mask mandate to be lifted for holidays
Governor JB Pritzker says he's hopeful the state's indoor mask mandate can be lifted in time for the holidays. The daily new case rate has been falling in recent weeks, as have hospitalizations. The G...
Oct 20, 2021
Sandoval Village Administrator wants capital development plan; dog catcher to stay
Sandoval Village Administrator LeAnn Speiser has asked village board members for a list of projects they would like to see completed in the community. Speiser hopes that can become the basis of a capi...
Oct 20, 2021 Sandoval Village Board.
Republicans taking stand against state legislative proposal to allow underage girls to obtain abortions without parental consent
State Senators Jason Plummer and Terri Bryant have joined other Republican Senators in denouncing a plan by Democrats to push through a bill to eliminate the need for underage girls to receive parenta...
Oct 20, 2021 File photo: State Senator Jason Plummer speaks at Reagan Day Dinner in Salem.
21 Chicago cops put on 'no pay status' in vaccine standoff
CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown says that 21 officers have been placed on "no pay status" for refusing to comply with the city's order to disclose their COVID-19 vaccination s...
Oct 20, 2021 Jason Lawrence / CC
Those in 30 rooms of Economy Inn in Mt. Vernon displaced by fire that does considerable damage
Considerable damage is reported to the south side of the Economy Inn at 1317 Salem Road in Mt. Vernon from an early Tuesday night fire that displaced those in 30 rooms of the extended stay motel. Mt. ...
Oct 19, 2021
Four new COVID-19 related deaths in region, 59 new cases reported in Marion County
There are four new COVID-19 related deaths in the region. The Fayette County Health Department is reporting three deaths for the week ending on Friday. That brings their total number of COVID-19 relat...
Oct 19, 2021 Yuri Samoilov / CC
Marion County Sheriff's Deputies arrest two for burglary
The Marion County Sheriff's Department has arrested two people for burglary to a rural Iuka farmstead. 20-year-old Katlyn Hollinshead of East 5th in Kinmundy and 22-year-old Kelby Firnhaber of Marklan...
Oct 19, 2021
