Category Archives: Local News
Salem High School names SAR and DAR award winners for 2021-22 school year
Salem Community High School has named its Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution Award winners for the current school year. The DAR winner is Brynn Metcalf, the daughter of Jason and Haley Metc...
Sep 29, 2021 Bryann Metcalf and Brayden Smith.
Police Training Board fires director who hired activist in 'rape email'
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The director of a state board that in early 2020 was forced to end a contract with a Democratic activist after his name surfaced in purported government coverups involving rap...
Sep 29, 2021 Matt Turner / CC
Mt Vernon man receives 30 month prison term on weapons charge
A 52-year-old Mt. Vernon man has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon. Joseph Johnston of East Oakton was accused of pointing a rifle at another man who...
Sep 29, 2021
Marion County Highway Department reopens two roads
The Marion County Highway Department reports work has been completed on two road projects and the roads have now been reopened. They are the South Iuka Road south of the Route 161 extension where a la...
Sep 29, 2021 Marion County Highway Department building.
Marion County Health Department reports 36 new COVID-19 cases Saturday-Tuesday
The Marion County Health Department is reporting 36 new cases of COVID-19 and no additional deaths for the four day period between Saturday and Tuesday. Health Department Administrator Melissa Mallow ...
Sep 29, 2021
Police Beat for Wednesday, September 29th, 2021
Marion County Sheriff's Deputies arrested a 20-year-old Patoka man for possession of methamphetamine and resisting arrest following an early Wednesday morning traffic stop. Anthony Dickerson of West B...
Sep 29, 2021
State fair attendance healthy after pandemic layoff
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - State officials are celebrating attendance at this year's Illinois State Fair after it was canceled in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The state Department of Agricultu...
Sep 29, 2021 Katherine Johnson / CC
AP-NORC poll: Virus fears linger for vaccinated older adults
NEW YORK (AP) - A new survey finds that vaccinated older adults are far more worried about COVID-19 than the unvaccinated are. And those vaccinated older adults are far likelier to take precautions de...
Sep 29, 2021
Illinois man dies of rabies after apparent bat bite
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - A northern Illinois man has died of rabies after apparently being bitten by a bat - the first human case of rabies in the state since 1954. The Illinois Department of Public H...
Sep 29, 2021 Phuket@photographer.net / CC
Bears move closer to leaving Soldier Field for the suburbs
CHICAGO (AP) - The Chicago Bears took a major step toward moving out of their longtime home at Soldier Field and into the suburbs by signing a purchase agreement for Arlington Park about 30 miles nort...
Sep 29, 2021
