Category Archives: Local News
Police Beat for Friday, March 28th, 2025
Centralia Police have arrested 25-year-old Josephine Johnson of Randolph Drive in Centralia for aggravated domestic battery. She was taken to the Marion County Jail. 50-year-old Tracy Howe of Macedoni...
Mar 28, 2025
Salem Township Hospital passes budget; gets construction update
The Salem Township Hospital Board has passed its fiscal year budget that begins April first. Hospital CEO James Timpe says the budget is balanced and includes $3-million in net income of which $2-mill...
Mar 27, 2025 Salem Township Hospital President/CEO James Timpe. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Salem Township Hospital sets spring date for purchasing low cost blood test vouchers
Salem Township Hospital has set Thursday, April 24th for the next wellness program where you will be able to purchase low cost blood test vouchers. The program will work the same as in the fall when y...
Mar 27, 2025
Ft Wayne Indiana man who entered rural Salem home ordered held pending fitness hearing
A 42-year-old Fort Wayne Indiana man has been ordered held in the Marion County Jail until a fitness hearing is completed after being formally being charged Wednesday with felony criminal trespass to ...
Mar 27, 2025 Andrew Walker
Xenia man injured in I-57 crash north of Salem
A 42-year-old Xenia man was injured Wednesday morning when losing control of his pickup truck while driving northbound on I-57 five miles north of the Salem exit. Michael Burdine of Hackberry Road was...
Mar 27, 2025
SCHS Play Beetlejuice Junior opens Thursday night at Salem Theatre
The Salem Community High School performance of Beetlejuice Junior opens Thursday night at the Salem Community Theatre. Director Drew Johnson says this is the first year licenses have been issued for p...
Mar 27, 2025
Centralia man dies from medical issue following single-vehicle crash in Centralia
A 62-year-old Centralia man died at SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital in Centralia after his vehicle ran off the road near Broadway and Lincoln in Centralia and hit a sign before coming to a stop. Marion...
Mar 26, 2025
Carlyle Woman Dies in US 50 Crash at Jolliff Bridge Road (updated 6 pm 3-26)
A 26-year-old Carlyle woman died in an early Wednesday morning crash on U.S. 50 at the Jolliff Bridge Road west of Sandoval. Clinton County Coroner Phil Moss says Hazel Huels was pronounced dead on th...
Mar 26, 2025
Rural Kell Home Escapes Damage in Flue Fire
The Kell Fire Protection District reported no damage in a flue fire at the Jerry Devore home in the 5100 block of Walnut Hill Road in rural Dix Tuesday morning. Fire was coming out the flue of the hom...
Mar 26, 2025 Kell firefighters responding to a flue fire on Walnut Hill Road.
Sandoval mobile home heavily damaged in early Tuesday morning fire
A fire heavily damaged the Andrew Cranford mobile home at 409 North Orange Street in Sandoval early Tuesday morning. Sandoval Fire Chief Scott Towler says Cranford woke up smelling smoke and was able ...
Mar 26, 2025 Mobile home fire on Orange Street in Sandoval.
