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Two people are headed to prison after entering guilty pleas in Marion County Court on Tuesday. 30-year-old Alan Crain of Centralia was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for failure to regist...

A 24-year-old Odin man had bond set at $200,000 in a Marion County Court Zoom hearing Wednesday morning on charges of aggravated domestic battery, theft of a motor vehicle and interference with the re...

Left to right: Kevin Herrara-Guzman and Wilton Herrara-Lopez. (Marion County Jail photos) State Police arrested two Centralia men on sexual abuse charges on Tuesday. 19-year-old Kevin Herrara-Guzman o...

Marion County Circuit Clerk Tiffany Schicker told the Marion County Board Tuesday night the county and other governmental units are looking at a substantial loss of revenue with the phase out of cash ...

The Marion County Board’s Community Relations Committee Chair Bill Henson says open burning controls are already on the books for rural areas and the county won’t have to look at drafting ...

There will be an Easter Egg Hunt in Salem this year….but it will be different. The chair of the Salem Lion’s Club event Leon Chapman says they are going to a drive through event at Bryan M...

After years of debate if Salem Township was wet or dry, the debate ended quietly at Tuesday night’s Marion County Board meeting with two liquor licenses being issued in unincorporated portions o...

Kindergarten screenings and pre-registration for the 2021-22 school year is scheduled for Monday, April 26th, for the residents of the Iuka School District. Students will be screened during 15-minute ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - A state prison guard on Tuesday pleaded guilty to federal felony charges related to the unprovoked 2018 beating death of an inmate at Western Illinois Correctional Center. Wil...

CHICAGO (AP) - The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled in a case involving former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan that it doesn't have the authority to penalize a politician for a “shady strategy...