Category Archives: Local News
Ameren says electricity was out in Odin Sunday morning due to equipment malfunction
Ameren Illinois officials say an equipment malfunction in a substation resulted in a power outage to 543 customers in the Odin area Sunday morning. The power outage began around six am for most custom...
Jun 13, 2021 Tonyglen14 / CC
Police Beat for Sunday, June 13th, 2021
A 33-year-old Salem man was arrested by Salem Police for retail theft of items from the Four Season's Garden Center on West Whitaker Street. Damon DeBoard had allegedly been caught on a surveillance c...
Jun 13, 2021
Death of Illinois inmate restrained by cops deemed homicide
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Authorities say the death of a man restrained by Sangamon County correctional officers and shocked with Tasers has been classified as a homicide. Thirty-nine-year-old Jaimeson...
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Singer Brett Young added to Illinois State Fair lineup
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Country singer Brett Young will perform this summer's Illinois State Fair. The state's Agriculture Department officials say Young will take the grandstand stage on Aug. 20, wi...
Jun 13, 2021 Katherine Johnson / CC
Fire destroys mobile home in Kinmundy
A mobile home was destroyed by fire Saturday morning in Kinmundy. Kinmundy-Alma Fire Chief Kevin Day says Ron Pauley of 410 West Third was sleeping in a bedroom when he woke up to find the window air ...
Jun 12, 2021
Jefferson County reports new COVID-19 death; no new cases in Marion County
The Illinois Department of Public Health is reporting a new COVID-19 death in Jefferson County. The death is one of 22 listed on Friday's report. The fatality was a male in his 80s. The deaths also in...
Jun 12, 2021
Bond set at $500,000 for Centralia man charged with sex offenses
Bond has been set at $500,000 for a 26-year-old Centralia man who faces two Class X predatory criminal sexual assault charges and single counts of predatory criminal sexual assault and failure to regi...
Jun 12, 2021
Police Beat for Saturday, June 12th, 2021
A 58-year-old Centralia man has been arrested for aggravated battery to a nurse. Henry Leake of Hickory Ridge Court was taken into custody by Centralia Police who took him to the Marion County Jail. S...
Jun 12, 2021
Body in Marion motel rubble is identified as man missing for months
MARION, Ill. (AP) - A body discovered after the demolition of a landmark motel in southern Illinois has been identified as a man who had been missing since December. Marion police Chief David Fitts sa...
Jun 12, 2021 Nitram242 / CC
Six Flags park in Illinois settling lawsuit over fingerprints for $36-million
GURNEE, Ill. (AP) - Six Flags Great America has settled a class-action lawsuit by agreeing to pay $36 million over the use of fingerprint scanners at its Illinois theme park. The Chicago Tribune says ...
Jun 12, 2021 Alan Light / CC
