Category Archives: Local News
Police Beat for Sunday, December 29th, 2024
Centralia Police arrested a 45-year-old Centralia man on multiple counts on Saturday. Jarcus Croft of North Elm was taken to the Marion County Jail on new counts of domestic battery, violation of pre-...
Dec 29, 2024
Unemployment drops slightly in South Central Illinois in November
Unemployment dropped slightly in Marion County and South Central Illinois in November. The latest unemployment numbers for Marion County show a 4.6-percent unemployment rate, down two-tenths of a perc...
Dec 28, 2024 Jkirsch13 / Depositphotos.com
Discarded live Christmas trees to be collected for fish habitat
Several Illinois Department of Natural Resources facilities have announced they will collect discarded live Christmas trees for fish habitat. Centralia and Salem City Officials have also announced the...
Dec 28, 2024 HeyingPhoto / Depositphotos.com
Salem man charged with felony improper passing of an emergency vehicle
A 22-year-old Salem man was charged in Marion County Court on Friday with a Class 4 felony of improper passing of an emergency vehicle. Andrew Peak of South College is accused of approaching a station...
Dec 28, 2024 File photo: Marion County Courthouse.
Salem woman charged with four counts of aggravated DUI
A 34-year-old Salem woman has been charged with four counts of aggravated driving under the influence for allegedly having four persons under the age of 16 in her vehicle when stopped on a reckless dr...
Dec 28, 2024
Centralia man charged with aggravated battery and felony domestic battery
A 49-year-old Centralia man was charged in Marion County Court Friday with aggravated battery and felony domestic battery for allegedly striking a pregnant woman in the shoulder with his hand. Central...
Dec 28, 2024 Blogtrepreneur / CC
Police Beat for Saturday, December 28th, 2024
A 32-year-old Odin man has been arrested for violation of pre-trial release. Marion County Sheriff's Deputies took Kyle Obermeier of North Everett to the county jail until he is brought before a judge...
Dec 28, 2024
Winning ticket for $1.22 billion lottery jackpot sold in California, Mega Millions says
ATLANTA (AP) - At least one Mega Millions player has plenty of dough to ring in the New Year after drawing the winning number. After three months without anyone winning the top prize in the lottery, a...
Dec 28, 2024
Nearly 300 new Illinois laws take effect in 2025
by Ben Szalinski, Capitol News Illinois December 23, 2024 Time to study up, Illinois. When the clock hits midnight on New Year's Day, 293 new state laws will take effect. Those include some of the def...
Dec 27, 2024 (Capitol News Illinois file photo by Andrew Adams)
Illinois' minimum wage to increase to $15 on Jan. 1, completing 6-year transition
By Ben Szalinski, Capitol News Illinois December 26, 2024 The minimum wage in Illinois will increase to $15 an hour on Jan. 1, completing a six-year transition period since the increase was approved i...
Dec 27, 2024 Visual: Gov. JB Pritzker holds a shirt commemorating the movement to raise the minimum wage to $15 after signing the bill on February 20, 2019. The wage hits $15 in 2025. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
