Category Archives: Local News
Police Beat for Friday, June 18th, 2021
Salem Police arrested two persons wanted on warrants and later took one of them into custody for possession of methamphetamine. Police located 37-year-old Robert Garney of Selmaville Road and 34-year-...
Jun 18, 2021 Jobs For Felons Hub / CC
Police: 4 slain in Chicago mass killing all shot in head
CHICAGO (AP) - A police report says a mass shooting that left four people dead and four others wounded at a house on Chicago's South Side was believed to have been carried out by two people who shot a...
Jun 18, 2021 Arvell Dorsey Jr. / CC
Biden's silence on executions adds to death penalty disarray
CHICAGO (AP) - Activists widely expected Joe Biden to take swift action against the death penalty as the first sitting president to oppose capital punishment, but the White House has been mostly silen...
Jun 18, 2021
Illinois governor signs $42B state spending plan into law
CHICAGO (AP) - Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed a $42 billion spending plan for Illinois that includes $2.5 billion in spending from a multi-year federal relief package. The budget came together after Pr...
Jun 18, 2021
Foam containing 'forever chemicals' used against plant fire
Government officials say a company hired to extinguish a fire that gutted a northern Illinois chemical plant used foam containing toxic compounds that have contaminated many U.S. waters. The U.S. Envi...
Jun 18, 2021 Forest Service, USDA
South Central School Board finalizing plans for spending $839,000 in first federal COVID relief funding
South Central School Superintendent Kerry Herdes says they will be able to address numerous issues and improve air quality with their first $839,000 in COVID relief money granted to the school. Herdes...
Jun 17, 2021
Governor announces COVID-19 vaccination lottery
Governor JB Pritzker is announcing a new COVID-19 vaccination lottery with ten million dollars in prizes. The lottery is called 'All In For The Win'. "Illinois residents who have received at least one...
Jun 17, 2021 Governor Pritzker announcing lottery for those who have received their COVID-19 vaccinations.
More than 60 show up at Salem Job Fair
More than 60 people met with potential employers at the Salem Job Fair held at the Kaskaskia College Salem Education Center Wednesday morning. Salem Economic Development Director Tabitha Meador was un...
Jun 17, 2021 One of the two rooms filled with employers talking to interested job applicants at Wednesday's Salem Job Fair. Photo by Tyler Perkins.
Survey: strong growth continues in rural parts of 10 states including Illinois
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A new monthly survey of bankers suggests strong growth continues across rural parts of 10 Plains and Western states. The overall Rural Mainstreet economic index slipped to 70 June f...
Jun 17, 2021
Two sentenced to prison in Marion County Court on drug charges
Two people have been sentenced to prison in Marion County Court after pleading guilty to drug possession charges. 35-year-old David Wells of Centralia received a two-and-a-half-year prison term after ...
Jun 17, 2021 David Wells and Paul Wright.
