Category Archives: Local News

The Centralia City Council Monday night will consider implementation of a 1-percent Municipal Grocery Retailers' Occupation sales tax. The 1-cent is currently being collected by the state and distribu...

Marion County Sheriff Kevin Cripps has announced he will be seeking a second term as sheriff in the Republican primary next March. Cripps says he has worked day and night to be a Sheriff you can be pr...

Centralia Police have arrested a 48-year-old Centralia man for possession of methamphetamine. Aaron Finley of East Green was taken to the Marion County Jail. 21-year-old Zachariah Herbert of South Lin...

A 47-year-old Mt. Vernon man has been airlifted to a St. Louis Hospital for injuries he sustained in a motorcycle crash just outside of Mt. Vernon on Tuesday night. Jefferson County Sheriff Jeff Bulla...

Jefferson Fire reports a gutted single-wide mobile home at the Rolling Meadows Mobile Home Park north of Mt. Vernon was destroyed in a Friday night fire. The mobile home was fully engulfed upon the de...

Centralia Fire Protection District Chief Ross Boshera says a hay baler being pulled behind a tractor east of Walnut Hill caught fire in a wheat stubble field and was destroyed. The baler was owned by ...

By Cole Wimberly The 100th anniversary Scopes Monkey Trial was held in the Bryan Memorial Park for two performances at the band stage on Saturday, July 12th. Both performances drew good crowds, and or...

A beloved and highly respected nurse at SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital in Centralia has been recognized as the hospital's 2025 DAISY Lifetime Achievement Award. Brenda Kunick was honored for dedicatin...

The Illinois Department of Public Health has declared the Southern Illinois measles outbreak over. There were eight total cases that were all linked to one another in April and May in the Williamson C...

Clay County will celebrate its Bicentennial Celebration on Saturday. The celebration will be on the Courthouse square in Louisville beginning at four on Saturday afternoon. Organizers say the square w...