Category Archives: Local News

The two incumbents won election to another six-year term on the Kaskaskia College Board in Tuesday's election. With some small vote totals missing from small fragments of the college district in Metro...

Mt. Vernon Mayor John Lewis will serve another term after defeating Donte Moore in Tuesday's consolidated election. The final vote was Lewis 799 and Donte Moore 679. The winners in the Mt. Vernon City...

Here are the results of the contested township races in Marion County: Democrat Debbie Young won the race for Centralia Township Supervisor over Republican Timothy McCance. Young has 727 votes to McCa...

Marion County: https://www.platinumelectionresults.com/turnouts/county/18 Clinton County: https://www.platinumelectionresults.com/turnouts/county/10 Jefferson County: https://www.jeffersoncounty.illin...

Construction has started on a 35,000-square-foot building at 154 North Selmaville Road in Salem that will be the home of 618 Plastics. The concrete floor has been poured, and the building steel is sta...

Salem firemen were called out twice on Monday for fires that were quickly extinguished. The first fire was in two hay bales being hauled on a trailer coming into the west side of Salem. After those fo...

Seven people were injured Monday morning when two vehicles collided on U.S. 51 at Clinton Avenue in Patoka. Preliminary information from State Police indicates a vehicle driven by 25-year-old Austin B...

Two people were taken to the Marion County Jail on Monday on outstanding no bond warrants. 27-year-old Tyler Faith of Norton Road in Odin was returned from the Fayette County Jail at Vandalia on a no ...

Kaskaskia College administrators came to the Centralia Correctional Center gymnasium on Friday for a graduation ceremony, recognizing fifty-five inmates who received certificates through the college's...

An estimated 2,000 visited the Centralia Home and Community Expo over the weekend. Chamber Membership Director Matt Packman is pleased with the turnout. "I think it was a great year for the home show,...