Category Archives: Local News

The Salem Community High School Board Monday night approved its Return to Learn Plan. Superintendent Dr. Brad Detering says school will return to full day five days a week with remote learning only fo...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Two state agencies overseeing higher education in Illinois are encouraging colleges and universities to require COVID-19 vaccinations of students heading to campuses this fall...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois' governor is running for re-election. J.B. Pritzker, who spent the last 18 months leading the state through one of the more treacherous health crises in history, anno...

The Salem Police Department is investigating burglaries to three vehicles in the Salem Aquatic Center parking lot. The first burglary was reported at 7:35 Sunday evening. The other two cases were repo...

FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) - Activists are calling for officials to reinvestigate an incident where a southern Illinois police officer used force against two Black teenagers while breaking up a fight...

HICKORY HILLS, Ill. (AP) - Reckless homicide charges have been filed against the driver of an SUV involved in a single-vehicle crash in suburban Chicago over the weekend that left four people dead. Hi...

The founder of Poettker Construction Company based in Breese has died after going under in Kentucky Lake after jumping off the back of a boat. The body of 69-year-old Charles "Chuck" Poettker of O'Fal...

Jefferson County Sheriff Jeff Bullard says the body of a 25-year-old Woodlawn woman has been recovered from her car that was washed off a flooded road near her home early Saturday morning. The Jeffers...

MARION, Ill. (AP) - Authorities are investigating after skeletal remains were found at a wildlife refuge in southern Illinois. The Williamson County Sheriff's Office is investigating with the U.S. Fis...

ALTON, Ill. (AP) - Crews are putting the final touches on Southern Illinois University's new $11.5 million dental clinic. The project was announced in 2019 and work began the following year with the d...