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Salem's new Police Chief Todd Boles first once to get to know the department and then look at several improvements. Boles has spent the last 17 years on the Charleston Police Department where he will ...

Salem Community High School's new Assistant Principal is looking forward to having a bigger role at the school. Kelsey Pogue has been a special education teacher at SCHS for 12 years after growing up ...

A detached garage at the David Branch, Sr. home at 307 North College was destroyed and his home six to eight feet away was damaged in an early Monday morning fire. "When we got there, we had a fully i...

Kaskaskia College will once again host Explore KC Day on Friday, April 4. The event gives high school students an opportunity to learn more about what KC has to offer, meet with faculty, take tours of...

A 37-year-old Salem woman was arrested for aggravated battery to a police officer after allegedly getting into an altercation after they gave her a ride home. Salem Police say they were initially call...

The City of Centralia will hold a public meeting on an Illinois Department of Transportation Safe Roads to Schools Grant prior to its regular meeting Monday night. The $250,000 grant will help the cit...

A controlled burn in set aside acres southwest of Patoka spread out of control from the wind late Saturday morning. Patoka Fire Chief Blake Hyde says the fire was on property owned by Kevin Chambers o...

Unemployment was up across South Central Illinois in January from December but is still lower than a year ago. In Marion County, unemployment is now at 5.2 percent, a full percent above December. A ye...

A 54-year-old Mt. Vernon woman was hurt in a single-vehicle crash Friday afternoon on the Iuka Road in rural Iuka. Marion County Sheriff's Deputies say Sabra England of Logan Street believes she fell ...

Two graduated from Marion County Drug Court on Friday. 45-year-old Michael Swickard of Centralia had been charged with delivery of meth, possession with intent to deliver, and possession of 15 to 100 ...