Category Archives: Local News
Large pole barn destroyed by fire north of Texico
A 30 by 60 foot pole barn used as a garage and machine shop in rural Texico with a large number of items inside was destroyed by fire on Thursday. Jefferson Fire reports the building on North Toll Roa...
Oct 25, 2024
Unemployment drops again in South Central Illinois
Unemployment dropped again across South Central Illinois in September. The Illinois Department of Employment Security reported 4.9-percent of the labor force in Marion County was without a job. That's...
Oct 25, 2024
Salem City Hall being closed three days next week for maintenance
Salem City Hall will be closed next Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. City Manager Annette Sola says Cenpro will be utilizing a chemical to remove bird feces and other build up on the third floor of the...
Oct 25, 2024
'My client is the speaker': Jury hears wiretapped calls of Madigan co-defendant, longtime friend
Prosecutors paint picture of Mike McClain's extreme loyalty to ex-Illinois House speaker By HANNAH MEISEL Capitol News Illinois hmeisel@capitolnewsillinois.com CHICAGO - By early 2019, Mike McClain ha...
Oct 25, 2024
Trick or Treat night in Centralia Friday night filled with activities
Centralia is among the communities holding Trick or Treat on Friday evening. Mayor Bryan Kuder is wishing everyone a fun and safe Halloween and Fall Festival weekend. The downtown trick or treating wi...
Oct 24, 2024
Marion County Republicans open headquarters
The Marion County Republican Party has opened a campaign headquarters in downtown Salem. The headquarters at 207 East Main will be open from one to five Thursday through Friday and from one to five th...
Oct 24, 2024
Gateway Regional Water Company to change disinfectant process November 8th
Beginning November 8, 2024, Gateway Regional Water Co. will begin a modified disinfection process using Free Chlorine instead of Chloramines for its predominant water disinfectant. Beginning December ...
Oct 24, 2024
Salem Police make unusual retail theft arrest
A 33-year-old Salem man has been arrested for felony retail theft after allegedly found hiding in a bathroom at Farm Fresh Market on East Main Street eating product taken from the store. Salem Police ...
Oct 24, 2024 Adam Durham
ComEd exec testifies utility prepared for bankruptcy before 2011 law threw it a lifeline
First portion of Madigan corruption trial a repeat of 2023's 'ComEd Four' case By HANNAH MEISEL Capitol News Illinois hmeisel@capitolnewsillinois.com CHICAGO - In 2006, electric utility Commonwealth E...
Oct 24, 2024 A Commonwealth Edison-branded manhole cover sits outside the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago, where former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is on trial for allegedly taking bribes from ComEd, along with other alleged acts of corruption. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Hannah Meisel)
Fire heavily damages rural Mt. Vernon mobile home
Fire caused heavy damage to a rural Mt. Vernon mobile home Wednesday afternoon. Jefferson Fire officials say the fire was at the Michelle Johnson residence at 14,862 McCulley Lane. She was home, but d...
Oct 24, 2024
