Category Archives: Local News

Clinton County Coroner Phillip Moss has identified a man whose body was recovered from a pond near the Best Western Motel in Centralia. He’s 37-year-old Jeffrey Downs of Swansea. An autopsy is s...

A fire gutted a back room of the Five Brothers Cafe at 2053 West Main late Sunday night after the restaurant had closed for the evening. Salem Fire Protection District officials say the fire was disco...

Salem Fire Protection District Firemen say a fire at the Hardee’s Restaurant on Sunday night was confined to a deep fryer where it started. Firemen say the employees had evacuated prior to their...

The third-grade teacher at Patoka School is the WJBD-WSIQ Teacher of the Week. Erica Hyde has taught third grade at Patoka for five years and is in her ninth year as a teacher. She was nominated for t...

A 32-year-old Centralia man has posted bond and was released after being arrested by Wamac Police on an outstanding Marion County felony warrant. Nicolas Hatfield of West 6th Street posted $500 cash b...

Salem Police Chief Sean Reynolds says an investigation is underway into a body found in a creek flowing through vacant land in the Westside industrial park. Reynolds is not aware of any identification...

Chicago and Illinois Public Health officials are announcing the first case of the more infectious Brazil variant of COVID-19 has been detected in a Chicago resident. The infected person told contact t...

A search is underway for a missing Mt. Vernon man. Sunday was Cory Horn Junior’s 38th birthday, but his family wasn’t celebrating as Cory has now been missing since Wednesday of last week....

A Belleville area man was found dead beneath the water in a pond near the Best Western Motel on the west side of Centralia on Sunday. The name of the man has not yet been released by the Clinton Count...

Firemen from three departments fight a fire that spread to more than 40 hay bales in Junction City on Saturday. Photo by Tim Ferguson. More than 40 hay bales burned in a yard fire Saturday afternoon a...