Category Archives: Local News

The Marion County Health Department is planning two mass vaccination clinics utilizing the single-dose Johnson and Johnson vaccine. One clinic will be in Centralia and the other in Salem. Anyone 18 ye...

SSM Health will reduce the hours of the drive-thru COVID-19 testing sites starting on Monday due to decreased demand. The clinics in Centralia and Mt. Vernon will now be open from eight am to noon sev...

New COVID-19 case numbers remain low in South Central Illinois but are continuing to spike statewide. 3,526 new cases were reported by the Illinois Department of Public Health on Thursday, the highest...

There will be a food giveaway Saturday morning at the Salem Grace Church of the Nazarene at 1900 North Broadway in Salem. Cusumono’s and Sons through a grant from the USDA is providing 250 boxes...

A 30-year-old Centralia man has turned himself in at the Marion County Jail on an outstanding Clinton County felony failure to appear or pay warrant in connection with an earlier theft conviction. Jos...

There will be another year of Friday First events at the Orchard Shopping Center on Route 37 South in Salem beginning tonight. Owner Keith McNeal says activity will get underway at six with an open ho...

CHICAGO (AP) - The number of people killed and shot in Chicago continues to climb. Statistics by the police department released on Thursday reveal that the trend that began last year when the number o...

CHICAGO (AP) - The Illinois attorney general's office has reached consent decrees with four companies, including a temporary staffing agency, to resolve allegations of workplace segregation and sex di...

CHICAGO (AP) - Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has commuted the sentence of a man who claimed he was framed by Chicago police detectives for a 1990 double murder. Gerald Reed was granted a new trial in 20...

Governor Pritzker announces $7-Billion is headed to Illinois schools from federal COVID relief money. Marion County school districts will receive more than 39-million dollars in new federal COVID-19 r...