Category Archives: Local News

There was no damage reported when a trash fire got away and burned four acres before being brought under control. Kell Fire Chief Lonnie McDaneld says the fire was at the Charles Waterstradt home at 3...

The Marion County Health Department is reporting 20 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday and no additional deaths. Of the 20 new cases, none were long-term care residents and one was a student not in class ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The Illinois House spent $187,000 in taxpayer money to rent out Springfield's downtown convention center last week after the coronavirus pandemic forced lawmakers from the Cap...

CHICAGO (AP) - An Illinois man was ordered held without bond for allegedly threatening the lives of President Joe Biden and other Democrats before the inauguration. U.S. Magistrate Judge Gabriel Fuent...

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. (AP) - Police say a 3-year-old northwestern Illinois girl died after she apparently fell from a window on a frigid night and couldn't get back inside her family's home. Rock Island p...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A new monthly survey of bankers suggests a growing improvement in the economy in rural parts of 10 Plains and Western states including Illinois. But Creighton University economist E...

A 19-year-old Salem man has been arrested by Salem Police for predatory criminal sexual assault of a child and three counts of child pornography. Dustin Peach of South Lackey was taken to the Marion C...

Pictured: Roy Kimber, Tesha Howard, John Phillips, Lindsey Bradford, Brynt Long Five people have been arrested after the Mt. Vernon Police/Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department High-Risk Team se...

The East Central Illinois Region that includes Fayette, Clay, and Effingham Counties has moved into Phase 4 of the Governor’s Restore Illinois Plan. They join the Southern Illinois Region in Pha...

The Illinois State Board of Education is expressing concerns about new graduation mandates approved by lawmakers last week. If signed into law, the large education bill passed during the lame duck ses...