Category Archives: Local News
Judge rules against pot grower applicants seeking licenses
CHICAGO (AP) - An effort by the Illinois Craft Cannabis Association to force Gov. J.B. Pritzker to award grower licenses was rebuffed by a Cook County judge. By law, 40 grower licenses were to be issu...
Dec 29, 2020
Marion County records one death and 54 new cases of COVID-19 over five day Christmas Holiday
The Marion County Health Department is reporting one COVID-19 related death and 54 new cases from Christmas Eve through Monday. The man who passed away was in his 80s and was a resident of a long-term...
Dec 28, 2020
Lawyer: Soldier charged in Rockford shooting may have PTSD
CHICAGO (AP) - An attorney for a U.S. Army special forces sergeant arrested in what authorities are calling an apparently random shooting at a Rockford bowling alley that left three dead has told an i...
Dec 28, 2020
Bond set at $500,000 for Flora man charged with multiple stabbings at Flora motel
Bond has been set at $500,000 for a Flora man charged with attempted murder, two counts of aggravated battery and unlawful use of a weapon after allegedly stabbing multiple people with a knife at the ...
Dec 28, 2020
Centralia industry celebrates 50 years in operation
A Centralia Industry is celebrating its 50th year in operation. Big 3 began as a small machine shop in a 20 by 20-foot milking parlor in a rural area between Aviston and Albers in 1970. In 1971, it re...
Dec 28, 2020
School board elections set for April; several to be contested
There will be contested elections in April for the Kaskaskia College Board, Salem Grade and High School Board, Selmaville Grade School Board, and Patoka School Board. Meanwhile, for some other boards,...
Dec 28, 2020
State Route 161 turns briefly into sheet of ice Sunday morning resulting in three crashes
The Marion County Sheriff’s Department reported three accidents within eight minutes Sunday morning on a stretch of State Route 161 from Route 37 to Byars Road after it turned to a sheet of ice ...
Dec 28, 2020
Marion County Sheriff's Deputies investigate two residential burglaries
The Marion County Sheriff’s Department is investigating two residential burglaries reported on Sunday. The owner of the property in the 1500 block of South Perrine Avenue just south of Centralia...
Dec 28, 2020
Sandoval Police investigate door being kicked in after bar fight
Sandoval Police say a home in the 100 block of Isle Street had the door kicked in after the occupant had been chased by a group of people from Bubs Tavern on Main Street that were reportedly involved ...
Dec 28, 2020
Police Beat for Monday, December 28th, 2020
Salem Police arrested a 51-year-old Odin woman on an outstanding Marion County warrant for failure to appear on pending possession of controlled substance and bringing contraband into a penal institut...
Dec 28, 2020