Category Archives: Local News
Two injured in hit and run crash on I-64
A father and son from Collinsville were injured in a hit and run crash on I-64 six miles east of Mt. Vernon late Saturday night. While reports are not yet available from State Police, Jefferson County...
Oct 04, 2020
Police beat for Sunday, October 4th, 2020
Centralia Police have arrested a 29-year-old Centralia man for criminal trespass to land and resisting a peace officer. Joshua Lucas of South Pine was arrested following an early Sunday morning incide...
Oct 04, 2020
Kitchen of Centralia home damaged by fire
The kitchen of a Centralia home was damaged in an early Saturday morning fire. Centralia city firemen say the fire apparently started from a pan of grease left on the stove at the Jeff Slusher home at...
Oct 03, 2020
Salem man receives five-year prison term on burglary and drug charges
A 32-year-old Salem man was sentenced to five years in prison in Marion County Court Friday after earlier pleading guilty to three felony charges. Cory Hodge received a five-year sentence for burglary...
Oct 03, 2020
Bond set at $150,000 for Salem man charged with predatory criminal sexual assault to a child
Bond has been set at $150,000 for a 57-year-old Salem man charged with predatory criminal sexual assault of a child. Rayvon Garner of South Rotan is accused in the charge of inappropriately touching a...
Oct 03, 2020
Police beat for Saturday, October 3rd, 2020
Centralia Police arrested two people on drug charges following a traffic stop at McCord and Pleasant early Saturday morning. The driver, 33-year-old Andrew Barringer of South Pine in Centralia, is bei...
Oct 03, 2020
Florida man killed in head-on crash near Dieterich
A 65-year-old Davenport, Florida man has died in a head-on crash near Dieterich in Southern Effingham County. State Police say preliminary investigative details indicate a pickup driven by Michael Sch...
Oct 02, 2020
Construction starting on Dakota Access pipeline pump station
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - A North Dakota official says construction on a new pump station to help push more oil through the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota to the Patoka Oil Tank Farm in northwest ...
Oct 02, 2020
Centralia swears in new police officer
Centralia Police Chief Greg Dodson (right) welcomes the city’s newest probationary patrolman Elliot Brinkmeyer. Photo by Pat Hodges. The Centralia Police Department Friday morning swore in Ellio...
Oct 02, 2020
Two Centralia retail establishments cited for selling e-cigarettes to underage persons
Centralia Police Chief Greg Dodson says the latest check of retailers found two that sold E-Cigarettes to underage buyers. He reports none sold package alcohol. The clerks given citations for sale of ...
Oct 02, 2020
