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The Centralia City Council Monday night will be asked to pass an ordinance to sell its animal control facility at 853 Woods Lane to Marion County for their new animal shelter. The county will pay the ...

Centralia Police arrested a 28-year-old Salem woman on an Effingham County warrant on Sunday. Sharesa Howser of Foxville Road was initially taken to the Marion County Jail and later transferred to the...

The Salem Fire Protection District evacuated the Grace Church on North Broadway in Salem Sunday morning after a strong smell of gas filled the church and drifted out into the parking lot. The fire dep...

Three outbuildings were destroyed in a late Saturday afternoon fire on the Gary White property at 6003 Sinclair Road east of Kinmundy. Kinmundy-Alma Fire Chief Kevin Day says White had been burning of...

Two people were arrested in separate domestic battery cases. Salem Police arrested 38-year-old Ricky Webb of Deer Path Drive in Salem early Sunday morning. Marion County Sheriff's Deputies arrested 31...

Centralia has a new fire chief. Captain Blake Perez is a more than 20-year veteran of the department and was one of three internal candidates for the position. "We're a great department, and I've alwa...

A 43-year-old Salem man was injured in a deer-motorcycle crash late Friday night on Green Street Road near the Odin Road intersection south of Odin. Marion County Sheriff's Deputies say Jason Lewis of...

A 53-year-old Junction City man was arrested by Salem Police early Friday evening for aggravated domestic battery and on a Marion County no-bond felony failure to appear warrant. Henry Rowcliff was ar...

The Salem Historical Commission will celebrate William Jennings Bryan's birthday with an open house and program on Saturday. Bryan was born on March 19th, 1860. He was a three-time presidential nomine...

A mobile home at 2710 Queens Avenue in the Royal Lakes neighborhood south of Odin was destroyed by fire Thursday night. The fire was at a home engulfed in flames upon the arrival of the Odin Fire Depa...