Category Archives: Local News
Boil Orders Continue to be Lifted Following Major Thursday Water Main Break
Six of the water companies under a boil order following the large break on the Gateway Water System on Thursday now have test results back indicating the water is safe to drink. The six are FMC Water ...
Sep 14, 2025
Odin School Board Puts Off School Consolidation Study Until State Funding Available
The Odin School Board, on Thursday night, decided to wait for state funding to be available for a consolidation study with the Sandoval and Patoka School Districts. Superintendent Quinton Marcum belie...
Sep 14, 2025 Odin High School. Photo by Sam Snodsmith.
Overturned semi traps driver underneath on I-57 Northbound Exit Ramp at Dix
A semi truck driven by a 50-year-old Tucson, Arizona man lost control when leaving I-57 on the northbound exit ramp at the Dix exit and overturned. State Police say preliminary information indicates t...
Sep 14, 2025
Mt. Vernon Teen Airlifted from Scene of Overturned Pickup East of Town
An 18-year-old Mt. Vernon man had to be extricated from his pickup truck after it ran off Dartmouth Road west of Duncan Road east of Mt. Vernon late Saturday night. Initial information from the Jeffer...
Sep 14, 2025 Air Evac Medical Helicopter.
Juvenile Driver Flees Scene, Four Injured in Van Crash East of Mt. Vernon
The driver of a van that crashed on East Liberty Road east of Mt. Vernon fled from the scene Saturday night, leaving five passengers behind. Jefferson Fire reports that four of the five juvenile passe...
Sep 14, 2025
Abandoned Home Burns South of Mt. Vernon
The cause of a fire that burned an abandoned home south of Mt. Vernon early Saturday morning has not been determined. The fire on Triton Lane had already burned through the metal roof and had spread t...
Sep 14, 2025 liz west / CC
Police Beat for Sunday, September 14th, 2025
Three people were taken to the Marion County Jail on Saturday night, but all were later released on notices to appear. State Police arrested 37-year-old Joseph Rogers of East McMackin in Salem for all...
Sep 14, 2025
Conservative researcher Ted Dabrowski enters Illinois GOP primary for governor
Dabrowski joins race with more than $1 million raised so far Article Summary Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski officially announced he will run for the Republican nomination for governor in 2026. The...
Sep 14, 2025 Ted Dabrowski talks to fellow Republicans at a State Central Committee
meeting in Springfield on Aug. 14, 2025.
Lane closures scheduled on US 50 and Illinois 37 in Marion County
The Illinois Department of Transportation has announced that pavement evaluations on U.S. 50 and Illinois 37 in Marion County will take place on Tuesday, Sept. 16, weather permitting. The work will re...
Sep 12, 2025
Kinmundy to wait a year to try for state park grant
The Kinmundy Board of Alderman Thursday night decided to wait a year before applying for up to a $600,000 state OSLAD grant for park improvements. Mayor Angie Diss says Kinmundy has lost its distresse...
Sep 12, 2025 File: Kinmundy City Hall. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
