Category Archives: Local News

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 ...

A 37-year-old Centralia man has been arrested by Centralia Police after both a vehicle and foot chase. Jonathan Bailey of South Maple is being held on two counts of aggravated fleeing police as well a...

The Salem City Council agreed with the Salem Planning Commission that a special use permit to allow a double-wide modular home to be placed on one of the lots made from the Armory property be rejected...

The Salem City Council Monday night tabled a request for a liquor license for the former Family Video building. Falguni Patel of Centralia had initially requested a Class A liquor license that would h...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The Illinois State Board of Elections has voted unanimously to place its executive director on paid administrative leave after he reported being the target of an online extort...

CHICAGO (AP) - Police say seven people involved in a fight on a sidewalk in Chicago were shot and wounded. Chicago police say shots were fired late Monday in the Englewood neighborhood on Chicago's So...

It’s the first weekly crop report of the season. Crop Statistician Mark Schleusener says Illinois farmers were able to till, spread dry fertilizer and apply anhydrous ammonia this past week. As ...