Category Archives: Local News
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.
Odin School Board puts off school consolidation study until state funding available
The Odin School Board 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 believes s...
Sep 12, 2025 File: Odin High School. Photo by Sam Snodsmith.
Home used for storage heavily damaged in Thursday morning fire
A person who entered a burning vacant two-story home used for storage was taken to Salem Township Hospital for treatment of smoke inhalation on Thursday morning. Sandoval Fire Chief Scott Toler says t...
Sep 12, 2025 Firefighters responding to the house fire in rural Odin.
Fire destroys car and part of fence in Salem
A fire destroyed a car and a part of a fence on South Marion Street near Locust Street in Salem late last night. Salem Fire Protection District firemen report the car was fully engulfed upon their arr...
Sep 12, 2025
Life Star Ambulance and Centralia City Firefighters deliver baby
Mother and son were reported to be doing well after the mother gave birth in a Life Star Ambulance Thursday afternoon outside her home on Circle Drive in Centralia. Centralia City Firemen say the moth...
Sep 12, 2025
Police Beat for Friday, September 12th, 2025
Centralia Police have arrested 30-year-old Nikkita Campbell of South Locust in Centralia on a no bond felony failure to appear warrant and a new charge of criminal trespass to land. 29-year-old Kaitly...
Sep 12, 2025
