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Ameren Illinois has announced its natural gas customers will pay about $2.30 more per month for natural gas service beginning in February. The increase will help fund its natural gas modernization pro...

A 38-year-old Kinmundy man has pleaded guilty in Marion County Court to charges of criminal damage to government supported property and domestic battery. Kyle Julius of O’Leary Road was placed o...

A 29-year-old Centralia man has pleaded guilty in Marion County Court to aggravated battery to a police officer. Joshua Lucas of South Pine admitted to kicking a Sandoval Police officer when he was at...

Home in 200 block of Johnson Street in Centralia where drug bust took place Thursday. Centralia Police have raided a home in the 200 block of Johnson Street that they say had been the scene of ongoing...

The Marion County State’s Attorney’s office has filed two new felony charges. 43-year-old Joshua Keebler of North Wall in Wamac was charged with felony domestic battery after allegedly str...

A 35-year-old Salem man has been arrested for possession of methamphetamine. Timothy Finley of West Spruce was taken into custody by Salem Police outside the Moto-Mart store where they had been called...

CHICAGO (AP) - The city of Chicago is opening six mass COVID-19 vaccination sites that’ll be able to deliver roughly 25,000 weekly shots once fully operational. Mayor Lori Lightfoot visited a ne...

State Representative Charlie Meier is calling the passage of the massive criminal justice overhaul bill in the waning moments of the 101st General Assembly on Wednesday a sad day for Democracy. Meier ...

A 34-year-old Salem man has been arrested for felony theft after allegedly taking money but failing to deliver the purchased product in a Facebook Marketplace transaction. The Marion County Sheriff...

Marion County Coroner Troy Cannon has identified an elderly man who was the subject of an extensive manhunt on Monday as 79-year-old James R. Jones of Simmons Road in rural Kinmundy. Jones was found d...