Category Archives: Local News

The Marion County Health Department is reporting 22 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday and Friday. There were no additional deaths. The department reports 16 of the new cases are school age and none ar...

CHICAGO (AP) - Family members say the Rev. Jesse Jackson has been transferred to a hospital focused on physical rehabilitation after receiving treatment for a breakthrough COVID-19 infection. A family...

Judge Mark Stedelin set bond at $500,000 Friday afternoon for a 26-year-old Salem man who has been charged with nine Class X counts of predatory criminal sexual assault. Salem Police arrested Devon Gi...

Centralia High School is reportedly faring well as school resumes during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Principal Reid Shipley stated during the board meeting on Thursday that the number of positive c...

Centralia High School's tennis courts have been named in honor of the late coach Craig Freels, and a sign is to be constructed by the courts reflecting the new name. The motion for the renaming was ma...

The Odin School has been hit hard by COVID-19. Superintendent Kimberly Briggs reports the district currently has seven positive students and 50 who are out due to close contacts. Briggs says four of t...

A 31-year-old Kinmundy man has been arrested for possession of less than five grams of methamphetamine and no valid drivers license. Michael Wimberly of East 4th was taken into custody following a Thu...

KANKAKEE, Ill. (AP) - Authorities say two men were killed and another was injured in shootings outside a northern Illinois courthouse stemming from a long-running internal gang dispute. Kankakee Polic...

LYONS, Ill. (AP) - Authorities plan to excavate a suburban Chicago backyard after two adult brothers found living in what police call a "hoarder home" said they buried the bodies of their mother and s...

Unemployment dropped in Marion and all area counties in July. Data released by the Illinois Department of Employment Security reported Marion County's unemployment rate at 6.1-percent. That's down eig...