Category Archives: Local News
Police beat for Monday, August 30th, 2021
Centralia Police arrested a Wamac man for criminal damage to property after he allegedly kicked in the door of a home in the 1200 block of East 2nd early Sunday night. Police say Andrew Murphy of Appl...
Aug 30, 2021
Police Beat for Sunday, August 29th, 2021
Two people remained in the Marion County Jail on Sunday after being arrested on outstanding warrants. Salem Police arrested 39-year-old Brandon Sloan of Tulsa Street in Salem on a Marion County warran...
Aug 29, 2021
Southern Illinois school wants federal virus cash for new field
ANNA, Ill. (AP) - A high school in southern Illinois wants to use nearly $900,000 in federal COVID-19 cash for artificial turf at the football field and a new track surface. Some members of the Anna-J...
Aug 29, 2021 See-ming Lee / CC
Design competition showcases Thompson Center redesign ideas
CHICAGO (AP) - From a waterpark resort to a public school, seven finalists have been named in a design competition to repurpose a much-maligned state government building in downtown Chicago. State off...
Aug 29, 2021 Mobilus In Mobili / CC
Dealing with mental health crisis one Zoom call at a time
CHICAGO (AP) - Sheriff's department officers in one Illinois county are hitting the streets with tablets that can connect people in distress immediately with mental health professionals. Cook County S...
Aug 29, 2021 Stephen Hogan / CC
2 brothers arrested; bodies found buried in Illinois yard
LYONS, Ill. (AP) - Police have discovered two containers with human remains in a backyard in suburban Chicago. It comes a few days after a man told investigators that he buried the bodies of his mothe...
Aug 29, 2021 Tom Britt / CC
Teen killed in collision with train in southern Illinois
PRAIRIE DU ROCHER, Ill. (AP) - A 16-year-old girl is dead after her car was hit by a train in southwestern Illinois. Police say her vehicle was stopped at a railroad crossing in Randolph County's Prai...
Aug 29, 2021 Lise1011 / CC
Clay City man one of two who die in head-on crash near Lawrenceville
A 19-year-old Clay City man was one of two killed in a two-vehicle head-on crash on Illinois Route 1 in Lawrence County. State Police say a preliminary investigation indicates the Clay City man for un...
Aug 28, 2021 Arvell Dorsey Jr. / CC
Newton women killed in Effingham County crash
A 72-year-old Newton woman was killed in a two-vehicle crash on Illinois Route 33 in Effingham County late Friday night. State Police say a preliminary investigation indicates Linda Miller was traveli...
Aug 28, 2021
Police Beat for Saturday, August 28th, 2021
The Marion County Sheriff's Department has made a second arrest in connection with a burglary to an unoccupied home on Red Stripe Road in rural Odin. Mallory Seals of North Broadway in Sandoval was lo...
Aug 28, 2021
