Category Archives: Local News
Brothers accuse prominent Chicago priest of sexual abuse
CHICAGO (AP) - Two brothers in their 60s have described what they say was years of sexual abuse by a firebrand priest who gained fame speaking out on national politics and for taking on drug dealers i...
Jan 25, 2021
Centralia Grade School looks towards Schiller School addition
The Centralia Grade School Board’s building committee is looking at a $1 to $1.5-million addition of a multipurpose room to the northeast side of Schiller Grade School. Superintendent Craig Clar...
Jan 25, 2021 Schiller Elementry School
Birds nest blamed for setting off flue fire at home east of Salem
The Salem Fire Protection District reports a bird’s nest built in a flue set off a fire in the chimney of a home east of Salem Sunday night. Firemen were called to the Rusty Courson home at 4923...
Jan 25, 2021
Centralia Fire Department deals with 5th suspicious fire in two weeks
Centralia City Firemen work to battle a fire at 701 Johnson that destroyed a 30 by 50 metal garage building with two cars inside. Photo by Tim Ferguson. The Centralia City Fire Department reports a se...
Jan 25, 2021
Central City 2nd Grade Teacher is WJBD-WSIQ Teacher of the Week
Central City 2nd grade teacher Cassie Stover is this week’s WJBD-WSIQ Teacher of the Week. Stover is in her 6th year as a teacher at Central City after starting as an aide in the Centralia City ...
Jan 25, 2021
Centralia City Council to be asked to move forward on five demolition projects; sell vacant property
The Centralia City Council Monday night will be asked to direct the demolition or repair of five dangerous and dilapidated homes. With the council’s concurrence, letters will be sent to the prop...
Jan 25, 2021
Centralia City Council to approve new Cemetery Advisory and Parks and Recreation Committees and name first members
The Centralia City Council Monday night will be asked to approve the new structure and the first members of the Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee and the Cemetery Advisory Commission. The two co...
Jan 25, 2021
Chicago teachers vote to teach from home, defying district
CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago teachers have voted to defy the school district's order to return to their classrooms for the resumption of in-person instruction despite not being vaccinated against the corona...
Jan 24, 2021
Highland woman sentenced to 18 months prison in medical hoax
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) - A 36-year-old southern Illinois woman has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison in a medical hoax that tricked people who gave her money and other benefits. Sarah D...
Jan 24, 2021
Sole bank in southern Illinois town on brink of closure
DESOTO, Illinois (AP) - The only bank in the small southern Illinois community of DeSoto will close later this year. That’s left village officials scrambling to draw another bank to the town of ...
Jan 24, 2021
