Category Archives: Local News
Centralia hosts first Summer Market on Saturday
The City of Centralia hosts its first Summer Market on Saturday. Mayor Bryan Kuder says there will be a lot of vendors from ten to four on Saturday. "We have upwards of 50 different vendors, crafts, f...
Jul 23, 2021
Centralia High School discusses return to school plan; set registration dates
The Centralia High School Board of Education discussed the plan for students' return to classes this August at Thursday's meeting. The tentative plan looks much like it would have before the start of ...
Jul 23, 2021 sydneyewing1 / CC
Centralia High Superintendent says federal grant money giving low-income schools parity for first time
The Centralia High School Board of Education discussed potential uses of funding from multiple federal grants at its meeting on Thursday, including new school vehicles, equipment, and classroom techno...
Jul 23, 2021
COVID-19 numbers showing concerning increase statewide
Nearly 2,000 cases of COVID-19 were reported Thursday in Illinois, the highest one day total since early May. The number of new cases has been rising in recent weeks. Governor JB Pritzker says they ar...
Jul 23, 2021
Unemployment jumps across region in June
Unemployment was up significantly in South Central Illinois in June from a month earlier, but the number in the work force also increased. The Illinois Department of Employment Security reports 6.9-pe...
Jul 23, 2021 Innov8social / CC
Fire destroys car later reported as stolen
The Marion County Sheriff's Department is investigating the cause of a fire that destroyed a car while it was parked on a field road off the 2100 block of Norton Road in rural Odin. The owner of the v...
Jul 23, 2021
Two transferred to St. Louis hospital following crash at Boulder Road and U.S. 50
Clinton County Sheriff's officials say two people were airlifted to a St. Louis Hospital Tuesday afternoon after their vehicle missed the stop sign on Boulder Road and ran into the side of an eastboun...
Jul 22, 2021 Clinton County Sheriff's Department. Photo courtesy of department's Facebook page.
Centralia man arrested following bicycle chase
Centralia Police have arrested a 22-year-old man who fled on his bicycle when they attempted to stop him Wednesday morning. Police say Rayveion Crusby-Daniels matched the description of a person seen ...
Jul 22, 2021
Two arrested on drug charges following separate traffic stops
A 50-year-old Centralia man was arrested on multiple drug charges after he was searched following an early Thursday morning traffic stop. Centralia Police arrested Jackie Scanlan of West Broadway for ...
Jul 22, 2021
Police Beat for Thursday, July 22nd, 2021
A 24-year-old Wamac man has been arrested on an outstanding Marion County felony warrant and Clay County traffic warrant. Coleman Ross of Frazier Street in Wamac was taken to the Marion County Jail wh...
Jul 22, 2021
