Category Archives: Local News

A search is underway for a missing Mt. Vernon man. Sunday was Cory Horn Junior’s 38th birthday, but his family wasn’t celebrating as Cory has now been missing since Wednesday of last week....

A Belleville area man was found dead beneath the water in a pond near the Best Western Motel on the west side of Centralia on Sunday. The name of the man has not yet been released by the Clinton Count...

Firemen from three departments fight a fire that spread to more than 40 hay bales in Junction City on Saturday. Photo by Tim Ferguson. More than 40 hay bales burned in a yard fire Saturday afternoon a...

The Kell Fire Department was called to a yard fire on the David Henson property at 7302 State Route 161 Extension in Iuka during the noon hour on Sunday. Upon arrival, firemen found a portable 12 by 2...

Jefferson Rural Firemen say the cause of a fire that burned one room of an older home used for storage remains undetermined. A passerby spotted smoke coming out from under the eves of the home owned b...

A 19-year-old Sandoval woman received what State Police are calling life-threatening injuries in a freak accident where she was struck by a car in which she was a passenger. Preliminary investigative ...

State Police have arrested a 33-year-old Muskegon, Michigan man for the manufacture or delivery of 10 to 30 grams of cannabis. James Miller was taken to the Marion County Jail. Two others remain in th...

Homecoming Court. From left to right: Soph. Escort – Jey’Chys Brown, Soph. Attendant – Madelyn Dailey, Jr. Escort – Connor Lorence, Jr. Attendant – Amanda Taylor, Queen &...

The Centralia City Council will consider the appointment of Financial Services Consultant Forrest Langenfeld as Interim City Manager on Monday night. The action is on the agenda after the council will...

The Marion County Sheriff’s Department reported minor injuries but no one transported to the hospital following a three-vehicle crash on U.S. 51 at the Boat Dock Road in Patoka late Thursday aft...