Category Archives: Local News

Raccoon Grade School Superintendent Misty Johannes credits a good working relationship between parents and teachers as key to their good test schools that led the district to being named one of only 1...

Salem Police have arrested a 20-year-old Salem man for alleged misdemeanor criminal sexual abuse. Detectives say Austin Unsell of East Bryan is accused of having consensual sex with a then 16-year-old...

Unemployment is up in Marion County in August from the prior month. The Illinois Department of Employment Security reports 6.5-percent of the workforce was without a job, up four-tenths of a percent f...

CHICAGO (AP) - Officials say dozens of Afghan children have arrived in Chicago as refugees evacuated from Afghanistan during the U.S. withdrawal continue to reach American cities. The unaccompanied Af...

NORTH UTICA, Ill. (AP) - Lawsuits have been filed, four months after three Chicago men died in an explosion while fishing and making a fire along the Illinois River. Lawyers believe they know how the ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (AP) - A body discovered in the Illinois River nearly three weeks ago has been confirmed as a graduate student missing from Illinois State University. Authorities say Jelani Day's id...

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) - Racing at Arlington Park is on the brink of ending after a run of almost a century. The venerable thoroughbred horse racing track sits on a 326-acre plot of land outside...

The Franklin Park Lady Bobcats season came to an end with an 11-2 loss to Carmi-White County at the Flora Regional. Mya Russell had both RBI for the Lady Bobcats as their season ends at 11-8. Carmi wi...

Governor JB Pritzker is reacting to lawsuits to try and block his masking and vaccine mandates. All healthcare workers, college students and staff and pre-k through high school staff should have recei...

A 28-year-old Sandoval man was arrested for failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident and no drivers license after his vehicle crashed into a ditch on Zion Hill Road in rural Centralia. The Marion ...