Category Archives: Local News
Home used for storage heavily damaged in Thursday morning fire
A person who entered a burning vacant two-story home used for storage was taken to Salem Township Hospital for treatment of smoke inhalation on Thursday morning. Sandoval Fire Chief Scott Toler says t...
Sep 12, 2025 Firefighters responding to the house fire in rural Odin.
Fire destroys car and part of fence in Salem
A fire destroyed a car and a part of a fence on South Marion Street near Locust Street in Salem late last night. Salem Fire Protection District firemen report the car was fully engulfed upon their arr...
Sep 12, 2025
Life Star Ambulance and Centralia City Firefighters deliver baby
Mother and son were reported to be doing well after the mother gave birth in a Life Star Ambulance Thursday afternoon outside her home on Circle Drive in Centralia. Centralia City Firemen say the moth...
Sep 12, 2025
Police Beat for Friday, September 12th, 2025
Centralia Police have arrested 30-year-old Nikkita Campbell of South Locust in Centralia on a no bond felony failure to appear warrant and a new charge of criminal trespass to land. 29-year-old Kaitly...
Sep 12, 2025
Salem Community High School names DAR and SAR winners
Salem Community High School has named its Daughters of American Revolution and Sons of American Revolution award winners for the current school year. Madison Keserauskis, the daughter of Heather and A...
Sep 12, 2025 DAR award winner Madison Keserauskis.
Under emergency rule, Illinois prisons begin withholding physical mail
by Beth Hundsdorfer, Capitol News Illinois September 10, 2025 Article Summary The Illinois Department of Corrections has begun scanning prisoners' mail to crack down on contraband in prisons. The emer...
Sep 11, 2025 Pinckneyville Correctional Center is pictured in southern Illinois. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Campbell)
Driver hurt in semi crash that resulted in hazmat call out
Jefferson Fire reports a semi ran off northbound I-57 at the 102 mile marker south of Dix early Thursday morning injuring the driver. The cab and trailer separated after the truck left the side of the...
Sep 11, 2025
Union Pacific locomotive catches fire leaving Salem Yards
Salem Firemen say a locomotive pulling a full freight train out of the Salem Union Pacific rail yards caught fire Thursday morning. Fire Chief Jim Cerny said the train had stopped north of the Tonti R...
Sep 11, 2025
Two serious crashes close I-57 southbound at Salem; Two Arkansas Brothers Pull Driver from Burning Vehicle
Two serious accidents on I-57 just south of the Salem exit closed the interstate for nearly 12 hours starting just after midnight Thursday morning. Traffic once again began flowing past the Salem exit...
Sep 11, 2025
Heavy Interstate Traffic Causes West Main Street Crash
Salem Police say both drivers refused hospital treatment following a crash on West Main at the entrance to Circle K that occurred during the heavy traffic caused by the closure of I-57 for accident cl...
Sep 11, 2025
