Category Archives: Local News

A 41-year-old Centralia man has been released on $1,000 cash bond after being formally charged in Marion County Court Friday with aggravated fleeing and attempting to elude police and driving with a r...

Two people face new possession of under five grams of methamphetamine charges. Both 28-year-old Caleb Forby of Macedonia and 38-year-old Princess Leake of South Locust in Centralia were formally charg...

A 42-year-old Sandoval woman is being held in the Marion County Jail for alleged domestic battery, aggravated battery to a police officer, and resisting arrest. Misty Howell of Wyoming Avenue was repo...

The Marion County Health Department is reporting one new COVID-19 related death and 22 new cases on Friday. Health Department Administrator Melissa Mallow says the death was a female in her 90s. She w...

The State Superintendent of Education Dr. Carmen Ayala quickly removed the Patoka School District from probation after receiving word that the school board Thursday night had changed their Return to L...

CHICAGO (AP) - Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike are giving people in high-risk settings another two weeks to receive an initial dose of the COVID-19...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) - A northern Illinois coroner has been indicted by a grand jury on charges that include stealing more than $14,000 from dead people. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced...

CHICAGO (AP) - The Rev. Jesse Jackson's wife will be released from a Chicago hospital where she has been treated for COVID-19. A statement Friday from Jonathan Jackson, one of the couple's five childr...

The Patoka Fall Festival returns after a year's absence. The activity begins on Friday night with the carnival and the opening of the food vendors at five pm. The Friday night entertainment in the are...

Sandoval Police have arrested two men for theft of a dump trailer that was reported missing Thursday afternoon from the 200 block of North Main Street. 27-year-old Caleb Forby of Benton and 34-year-ol...