Category Archives: Local News

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The president and the auto industry maintain the nation is on the cusp of a gigantic shift to electric vehicles and away from liquid-fueled cars, but biofuels producers and som...

URBANA, Ill. (AP) - Authorities say a 2-year-old central Illinois boy was shot when his home was hit by gunfire. The Champaign County Sheriff's Department says the house in Urbana was hit several time...

Salem voters have elected Nic Farley as the city’s next Mayor. He beat Brock Waggoner 608 to 436 votes. Incumbent councilman Jim Koehler and former councilman Royce Bringwald won the two city co...

Centralia residents have elected Bryan Kuder the city’s Mayor for the second time. He beat appointed Mayor Herb Williams by a vote of 1,070 to 522. Kuder, who is still fighting to overturn the c...

Three were three contested races for village President in Marion County communities on Tuesday. Betty Brumfield won re-election in Patoka, beating Blake Nebergall II 75 to 59. Kelly Jenkins beat Chrys...

One of the incumbents on the Salem High School Board was defeated in Tuesday’s election. The top vote-getter was newcomer Joe Telford, who finished with 1,335 votes. Current board President Eric...

Four were elected to the Kaskaskia College Board in Tuesday’s election. In the race for the three full six-year terms, Laura Wedekemper unofficially has 8,641 votes, Jeffrey Brown 7,130 votes, a...

Tuesday’s election featured contested elections in several townships in Marion County. In Centralia Township, Debbie Young maintained the township supervisor position with a 1,155 vote to 908 vo...

Residents of the Kell Fire Protection District approved issuing $630,000 in bonds for the purchase of a new fire truck. The vote was 138 in favor and 41 against.

The Marion County Sheriff’s Department has returned a Pell, Indiana man to the county jail on an outstanding Marion County failure to appear in court warrant on pending charges of possession of ...