Category Archives: Local News
Carbondale faces legal battle over protest restrictions outside abortion clinics
Pro-life group challenges city's now-repealed 'buffer zone' law, potentially reshaping protest laws nationwide By CARLY GIS Saluki Local Reporting Lab for Capitol News Illinois cgist@dailyegyptian.com...
Nov 14, 2024 Darlene Blumenstock (right) and Bob Owens (left), both of Marion, Illinois, wave at passing cars on a rainy morning Wednesday, Nov. 13, in front of CHOICES Center for Reproductive Health in Carbondale. CHOICES provides abortions, which Blumenstock and Owens oppose. “They have a lot of choices when they come here, they just don’t know it,” Owens said. (Photo by Carly Gist, Saluki Local Reporting Lab)
Salem Community High School Theater Presents "One Stoplight Town"
By. Cole Wimberly Salem Community High School Theater is putting on the play "One Stoplight Town" at the Community Theater. Opening night is this Thursday, November 14th! The engaging show follows a s...
Nov 14, 2024 Jaci Gammon, Cole Wimberly, Hannah Teitsort, Olivia Howe, Alek Vaughn, Elara Brubaker, Mallory Hopkins, Kinley Montgomery, and Gabby Pineda all standing beneath the broken stoplight.
Police Beat for Thursday, November 14th, 2024
A 33-year-old Oakville, Missouri man has been returned to the Marion County Jail on an outstanding failure to appear warrant. Todarrius Guyton is being held without bond pending a first appearance in ...
Nov 14, 2024
'You agreed to wear wires against your ComEd family': Star witness in Madigan trial grilled on cross-examination
Defense attorneys try to undercut Fidel Marquez's credibility after gun purchase attempt By HANNAH MEISEL Capitol News Illinois hmeisel@capitolnewsillinois.com CHICAGO - Before the sun rose on a cold ...
Nov 14, 2024 Fidel Marquez, a former Commonwealth Edison executive-turned-cooperating witness, leaves the Dirksen Federal Courthouse with his attorney on Tuesday, Nov. 12, after his fifth day of testimony in the bribery and racketeering trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Marion County Board to end animal control contract with Centralia
The Marion County Board has unanimously agreed to end its contract with the City of Centralia to house dogs picked up in unincorporated parts of the county. The decision comes when Centralia doubled t...
Nov 13, 2024 Marion County Board Community Relations Committee discussing animal control.
Centralia City Council approves liability insurance, workers' comp proposals
By Steven Stilt The Centralia City Council on Tuesday evening approved proposals for the city's insurance coverage services, accepting a proposal from Illinois Counties Risk Management for liability i...
Nov 13, 2024
Jefferson and Marion County top counties for fall firearm wild turkey season
Fall firearm turkey hunters harvested 292 bids in the late October season. That's up ten percent from the previous harvest but well below the record harvest of 1,218 birds in 2005. Jefferson County wa...
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Marion County Board approves 3.4 percent tax levy increase
The Marion County Board has approved a 3.4 percent increase in its tax levy that would result in a $230,000 increase in property tax collections next year. Finance Committee Chair Chris Krupp said the...
Nov 13, 2024 File photo: Marion County Courthouse.
Centralia school district names next assistant superintendent
Centralia City Schools District 135 officially hired Beth Hollenkamp, current assistant principal at Centralia Junior High School, as assistant superintendent beginning in the 2025-26 school year. Hol...
Nov 13, 2024 Incoming assistant superintendent Beth Hollenkamp (middle), after signing her contract, stands with school board president Ron Johnson (left) and next superintendent Christina Becker (right).
Centralia man charged with firing shotgun near Hubbard Woods home
The Marion County Sheriff's Department has arrested a 67-year-old rural Centralia man for allegedly firing a shotgun near two homes and initially refusing to put the gun down and move away as ordered ...
Nov 13, 2024
