Category Archives: Local News
State to begin tracking down those without auto insurance
Better make sure you have auto insurance, because Illinois Security of State Jesse White's office will be checking. The office is using a new system to track down those that aren't covered as required...
Jul 13, 2021 Daniel X. O'Neil / CC
Centralia City Manager says property tax rate increase may be unavoidable
Centralia City Manager Forrest Langenfeld gave a six month update on the city budget at Monday night's city council meeting and said it appears to him that a property tax increase is needed. Overall f...
Jul 13, 2021
Centralia makes plans to submit eight grant applications
Centralia City Manager Forrest Langenfeld told the Centralia City Council Monday night the city will be seeking eight grants. He says if approved, a number of projects can move forward. "We have what ...
Jul 13, 2021 Centralia City Manager Forrest Langenfeld addresses the current shortage of workers in a Tuesday news conference to announce a Regional Job Expo on Balloon Fest weekend. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Centralia City Council approves three new Class A liquor licenses
The Centralia City Council Monday night unanimously approved three new Class "A" liquor licenses. Two of the licenses will go to new businesses, Lucky Larry's Slots at 1333 West Broadway and Lady T's ...
Jul 13, 2021 H.L.I.T. / CC
Little Egypt Festival to hold Indoor yard sale to raise money for festival expenses
The Little Egypt Festival is hosting a fund raising yard sale inside the former Farm Fresh building on East Main Street in Salem this Saturday. Festival General Chair Jay Henke says they need help fro...
Jul 13, 2021 KOMUnews / CC
Police Beat for Tuesday, July 13th, 2021
Five people were taken to the Marion County Jail on Monday and early Tuesday morning. 33-year-old Michael Lutz of Apple Street in Wamac was arrested by Centralia Police on a Marion County warrant for ...
Jul 13, 2021
ConAgra raising prices to help offset rising costs
ConAgra is cutting its fiscal 2022 outlook due to rising costs, which the food company will try to offset by boosting prices. ConAgra, whose brands include Duncan Hines, Slim Jim and Birds Eye, now fo...
Jul 13, 2021 Nelo Hotsuma / CC
Flash flooding takes out bridge in north central Illinois
SENECA, Ill. (AP) - Authorities say heavy rains and ensuing flash flooding caused a north central Illinois bridge to partially collapse with a truck on it. Police said in the village of Seneca, about ...
Jul 13, 2021 Sergey Kochkarev
DuQuion man charged with shooting at Wamac Police Officer Friday
A 37-year-old DuQuion man is being held in lieu of a $150,000 bond in the Clinton County Jail on a Class X felony charge of aggravated discharge of a firearm at a Wamac Police Officer. Wamac Police Ch...
Jul 12, 2021
Two injured in crash at Red Stripe and Farthing Roads
Marion County Sheriff's Deputies say two people were injured in a car minivan crash at the Red Stripe and Farthing Road intersection in rural Odin Saturday afternoon. Reports indicate a car driven by ...
Jul 12, 2021
