Category Archives: Local News

Two people were arrested for battery following an altercation allegedly involving two other persons at Coaches Corner in downtown Salem Saturday night. 40-year-old Frederick Venturini and 39-year-old ...

CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) - Southern Illinois University at Carbondale has earned its second recognition as a Bicycle Friendly University. The League of American Bicyclists awarded SIU with a silver desig...

DeKALB, Ill. (AP) - A youth gymnastics coach in northern Illinois has been sentenced to 32 years after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting students. The DeKalb County state’s attorney says 25...

Three Salem residents were treated at the scene of a two SUV crash on Route 37 South at Kell Street Friday morning. Salem Police say the crash occurred when 22-year-old Tristan Rankin of Robin Road in...

A 52-year-old Flora woman was airlifted from the scene of a two-vehicle crash on U.S. 45 at the eastbound entrance ramp to I-64 south of Fairfield late Friday afternoon. State Police say a preliminary...

A 22-year-old Centralia man escaped injury but was ticketed following a single-vehicle crash late Friday night in Centralia. Centralia Police say Darren Jones of East Broadway ran off the 500 block of...

A 29-year-old Salem woman was taken to the Marion County Jail on Friday on an outstanding felony failure to appear warrant and a new charge of possession of methamphetamine. Salem Police say they stop...

BELLEVILLE (AP) - A man awaiting trial in the 2005 triple homicide in Belleville has died of COVID-19. St. Clair County Coroner Calvin Dye Sr. says that 55-year-old Samuel L. Johnson died of complicat...

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) - An activist who participated in protests following the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha has been charged with a felony for allegedly kicking in a door at the public safet...

CHICAGO (AP) - A judge has thrown out nine more felony drug convictions who were framed by a disgraced former Chicago police sergeant who spent years arresting people he planted drugs on dozens of oth...