Category Archives: Local News
St. Elmo woman injured in I-70 traffic crash
A 35-year-old St. Elmo woman was injured in a two-vehicle crash Thursday night on eastbound I-70 at milepost 65 in Vandalia Township in Fayette County. State Police say Tiffany Winterrowd was travelin...
May 28, 2021 Arvell Dorsey Jr. / CC
Madigan's former chief of staff pleads not guilty to perjury
CHICAGO (AP) - The longtime chief of staff to former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan has pleaded not guilty to accusations he lied under oath to a federal grand jury investigating a bribery sch...
May 28, 2021 gt8073a / CC
Official: Slain Illinois cop's partner justified in shooting
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) - A prosecutor says a central Illinois police officer was justified when he fatally shot a man who fired at him and shot and killed his partner last week. The (Champaign) News-Gaz...
May 28, 2021
Chicago Mayor sued for limiting interviews to reporters of color
CHICAGO (AP) - A white reporter for a conservative media outlet is suing Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot over her decision to grant interviews at the midpoint of her first term only to journalists of col...
May 28, 2021
Online sexual exploitation on increase in Illinois
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul's office says reports of online child sexual exploitation are on the rise. Cyber Crime Specialist Christine Feller says they are expecting to see a 16% increase i...
May 28, 2021
Rural Salem home heavily damaged by fire
A home owned by Jeff and Dakota Austin at 5103 Quail Run Road northeast of Salem was heavily damaged in a late Thursday afternoon fire. Salem Fire Department Fire Marshal Bill Fulton says no one was a...
May 28, 2021
Central City takes no action following closed session on employee investigation
The Central City Village Board went into closed session for about an hour Thursday night to discuss the findings of an investigator into a complaint filed against an employee. Mayor Ken Buchannan said...
May 28, 2021 Central City Village Board (file photo).
Centralia High School Board gets update on negotiations, funding, and summer programs
Negotiations, state funding, summer programs and next year's outlook were several of the items discussed at the Thursday night meeting of the Centralia High School Board of Education. Superintendent C...
May 28, 2021
COVID-19 death reported in Jefferson County
The Illinois Department of Public Health has announced an additional COVID-19 related death in Jefferson County. The case involved a female in her 70's. It was one of 42 additional deaths being record...
May 28, 2021
Unemployment increases tenth of percent in Marion County, but down dramatically from a year ago
The Illinois Department of Employment Security says 6,800 jobs have been added back in the Centralia-Mt. Vernon labor market since the height of the COVID-19 shutdown a year ago. But in Marion County,...
May 28, 2021
