Category Archives: Local News
Police Beat for Sunday, July 25th, 2021
Two people are in custody at the Marion County Jail on Sunday following separate arrests for domestic battery. Both 40-year-old Mindi Slater of West Case in Kinmundy and 52-year-old William Powell of ...
Jul 25, 2021
U of Illinois to open offices in India to recruit students
URBANA, Ill. (AP) - The University of Illinois system is setting up offices in India to help recruit students and build relationships with academic and corporate partners. India already is one of the ...
Jul 25, 2021
Chicago tracking July increase in Legionnaires' disease
CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago public health officials say cases of Legionnaires' disease have increased this month. The Chicago Department of Public Health is tracking the cases. Legionnaires' disease is cau...
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Illinois accountant given 8 years for $1.1 million fraud
CHICAGO (AP) - Federal prosecutors say an accountant from suburban Chicago has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud last year. According to the stateme...
Jul 25, 2021
Bond set at $250,000 for Centralia man charged with Class X drug offense
A 50-year-old Centralia man has been formally charged in Marion County Court with a Class X offense of possession with intent to deliver between 15 to 100 grams of meth. Jackie Scanlan of Wabash Avenu...
Jul 24, 2021
Centralia man faces charges in connection with stolen car
A 22-year-old Centralia man has been charged in Marion County Court with two counts related to damage and theft of a vehicle. Christian McClelland of Linden Street is accused of unlawful possession of...
Jul 24, 2021
Salem Police make arrest in car burglary case
The Salem Police Department has made an arrest in connection with a June 26th pickup truck burglary at the Salem Huck's store on West Main Street. Police say based on video surveillance and investigat...
Jul 24, 2021
Sandoval Police arrest two on felony drug charges
Sandoval Police have arrested two persons on drug charges. 26-year-old Trevor Langford of Norton Road in Odin was taken to the Marion County Jail for alleged possession of a controlled substance, poss...
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Police Beat for Saturday, July 24th, 2021
Salem Police arrested a rural Kell man for criminal trespass to a residence early Saturday morning after receiving a complaint of a man trying to climb through a window of a home. Beau Morton of Morto...
Jul 24, 2021
Salem firemen stand by after a gas line is ruptured
Salem Fire Protection District officials were called Friday afternoon to the Donald Helm home at 126 Woodland where a natural gas line had been ruptured. Fire officials say Helm was doing landscape wo...
Jul 24, 2021
