Category Archives: Local News
Happy Heart Quilt Guild show returns following a year's absence
More than 150 attended the Happy Heart Quilt Guild Show at the Salem Community Center. The President of the Guild, Karil Garrett, is pleased to see attendance and the display of quilts return to pre-C...
Oct 12, 2021 Quilts were displayed every where at the Happy Hearts Quilt Guild annual show at the Salem Community Center on Saturday. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Centralia Police new eligibility list has 11 candidates
Centralia Police have their biggest eligibility list in a number of years as eleven made the final cut by the Centralia Police and Fire Commission last week. Administrative Sergeant Steve Whritenour s...
Oct 12, 2021
Centralia City Council to consider renewal of line of credit
he Centralia City Council will be asked at its meeting Monday night to review its Line of Credit with Midland State's Bank. The city has had the $500,000 line of credit since 2012 in case of an emerge...
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Police Beat for Tuesday, October 12th, 2021
Odin Police arrested a 57-year-old Odin man on a Marion County failure to appear traffic warrant. Ronald Knicker of Laury Street was taken to the Marion County Jail where he is being held in lieu of $...
Oct 12, 2021
Capone's belongings go for at least $3 million at auction
CHICAGO (AP) - Al Capone may have died nearly 75 years ago but, after some of his prized possessions were auctioned off for at least $3 million, it's clear interest in the infamous Chicago gangster is...
Oct 12, 2021 rosannaarconrad / CC
Weather service: Reported tornado damages truck on Central Illinois freeway
ALEXANDER, Ill. (AP) - A reported tornado has damaged a semi-trailer on Interstate 72 in central Illinois as a line of storms rumbled across parts of the state. National Weather Service meteorologist ...
Oct 12, 2021 Aiko, Thomas & Juliette+Isaac / CC
Gun violence claiming more lives of American teens, children
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Gun violence is killing an increasing number of American children, from toddlers caught in crossfire to teenagers gunned down in turf wars, drug squabbles or for posting the wrong thi...
Oct 12, 2021
DuQuoin State Fair sees attendance jump 22%
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - State Agriculture officials say the attendance at the DuQuoin State Fair jumped 22% over what it was two years ago. More than 150,000 visitors entered the gates for the event'...
Oct 11, 2021 Katherine Johnson / CC
Centralia man faces multiple drug and weapon charges
A 35-year-old Centralia man is facing multiple charges after allegedly trying to drive off from an early Saturday morning traffic stop in Mt. Vernon. Mt. Vernon Police say Anthony Barnes was a passeng...
Oct 11, 2021
State Police release preliminary report on fatal crash on Kinmundy Road
State Police have released preliminary details on a fatal one-car crash just after midnight Saturday morning on Kinmundy Road just south of Pleasant Grove Road. Reports indicate 31-year-old Nicholas C...
Oct 11, 2021 Photo courtesy of ISP website.
