Category Archives: Local News

A 31-year-old Kinmundy man has been arrested for possession of less than five grams of methamphetamine and no valid drivers license. Michael Wimberly of East 4th was taken into custody following a Thu...

KANKAKEE, Ill. (AP) - Authorities say two men were killed and another was injured in shootings outside a northern Illinois courthouse stemming from a long-running internal gang dispute. Kankakee Polic...

LYONS, Ill. (AP) - Authorities plan to excavate a suburban Chicago backyard after two adult brothers found living in what police call a "hoarder home" said they buried the bodies of their mother and s...

Unemployment dropped in Marion and all area counties in July. Data released by the Illinois Department of Employment Security reported Marion County's unemployment rate at 6.1-percent. That's down eig...

All school staff and health care workers will have to be vaccinated under a new Illinois mandate. Governor J-B Pritzker says the mandate includes pre-school through college school teachers and staff a...

Fire heavily damaged the Tim Ferguson home at 23-44 Meadow Lane just outside Centralia early Thursday morning. The fire was apparently set off by Ferguson's minivan that blew up in the garage around f...

Mt. Vernon Police Chief Trent Page is asking the public's help for information on a shooting in the area of 17th and Perkins early Tuesday night. Page says a 17-year-old juvenile male was taken to the...

Two people are in custody following a traffic stop by Mt. Vernon Police and Jefferson County Sheriff's Deputies in the Waltonville area. Drugs and a dozen firearms, including one stolen from Marion Co...

Centralia Police Chief Greg Dodson says a man first fled a traffic stop and then abandoned his car and fled on foot Wednesday afternoon. Dodson says the initial traffic stop was attempted in the north...

Bond has been set at $75,000 for a 32-year-old Mt. Vernon man who was formally charged in Jefferson County Court at Mt. Vernon on Wednesday with possession of between 100 and 400 grams of heroin. Jeff...