Category Archives: Local News

The City of Salem has put its snow route ordinance into effect until further notice due to the Winter Storm Warning. A parking prohibition automatically goes into effect on any part of any snow emerge...

State Police say a 57-year-old Shattuc man was killed on Thursday afternoon when his pickup truck crashed into the rear of a semi near the Memorial Drive exit ramp in Mt. Vernon. The victim has been i...

A 47-year-old Sandoval man escaped injury when he lost control of his car and it hit a power pole on West Main Street in front of Rent One early Saturday afternoon. Salem Police believe Ryan Koehler l...

A shed was destroyed by fire early Sunday morning in Centralia. Centralia City Firemen say the fire was at the Patricia Hollingsead residence at 1000 Gragg Street. The shed, which was just a short dis...

A horse pulling a heater out of a water trough into some hay is believed to have started a fire that damaged a barn in Iuka late Saturday morning. The fire occurred at a barn owned by Wayne Moore at M...

A 42-year-old Centralia woman has been arrested by Centralia Police for aggravated domestic battery. Heather Bray of East 3rd was taken to the Marion County Jail to await a decision on formal charges....

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois officials have announced that RATIO Architects will lead the design process for an expanded communications building on the Carbondale campus of Southern Illinois Univ...

Doctors say they’re facing increasing threats of violence for refusing to prescribe opioids or trying to wean patients off the addictive painkillers. The issue was underscored by Tuesday’s...

Salem Mayor Sue Morgan has died at the age of 71. Morgan passed away Saturday morning at Memorial Hospital East in Shiloh. She had been in ill-health and had not been present at city council meetings ...

The Illinois Department of Public Health is reporting 53 additional COVID-19 related deaths on Saturday. Two of those were in South Central Illinois. A female in her 60s in Jefferson County and a fema...