Category Archives: Local News
Governor not planning to back down on masking requirements at schools
Governor JB Pritzker is making his stance on school masking clear. Several school districts are on probation with the state for not following a mandate for all staff and students to wear a mask, wheth...
Aug 26, 2021 Governor Pritzker gives mask update at Wednesday news conference.
Salem Township Hospital feeling impact of COVID-19
Salem Township Hospital is seeing a jump in inpatients and greater outpatient usage as a result of the growing number of COVID-19 cases across the area. Hospital President and CEO Alex Nazarian says w...
Aug 26, 2021
DNA on cigarette leads to arrest in Salem burglary case
Salem Police say DNA recovered from a cigarette has led to the arrest of a 24-year-old Salem man for a burglary in April of last year. 24-year-old Dustin Taylor of Hotze Road was taken into custody fo...
Aug 26, 2021
Sandoval man arrested in connection with Salem and Marion County burglaries
A 33-year-old Sandoval man has been arrested in connection with three burglary cases, one at Little Egypt Golf Cars on South Broadway in Salem and at two currently unoccupied homes in rural Odin and S...
Aug 26, 2021
Police Beat for Thursday, August 26th, 2021
Salem Police have arrested 41-year-old Ricky McIntosh on an outstanding warrant for failure to appear in court on a dangerous drugs case. He was located at a home in the 200 block of North Pearl where...
Aug 26, 2021
Marion County Health Department reports seven new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday
The Marion County Health Department is reporting seven new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday. There are no new COVID-19 related deaths to report. Five of the seven cases are in school-age children. None ...
Aug 25, 2021
BCMW Receives Farmers Market Coupons For Seniors
BCMW Project BREAD, in conjunction with Midland Area Agency on Aging and the Department on Aging, will be taking applications for coupons redeemable at the Farmer's Markets in Centralia, Mt Vernon and...
Aug 25, 2021 Jeremy Keith / CC
Governor warns stricter measures may be put back into place if COVID numbers don't improve
Governor JB Pritzker is warning that significantly stricter measures will be put back into place if COVID-19 numbers don't improve. With cases on the rise, the Governor says his office is looking at a...
Aug 25, 2021
Iuka Grade School on probation, Patoka and South Central have meetings with State Board of Education
The Iuka Grade School has been placed on probation by the State Board of Education for not requiring students to wear masks while inside the school. Superintendent Sam Alli says the state board of edu...
Aug 25, 2021 Tomash Devenishek / CC
Rural Odin man gets 5 year prison term for unlawful restraint
A 24-year-old rural Odin man has been sentenced to five years in prison to be followed by a year of parole after pleading guilty in Marion County Court to an unlawful restraint charge. Daniel Johnston...
Aug 25, 2021
