Category Archives: Local News
Solar array, pole barn projects at Centralia High School advancing
By Steven Stilt Two construction projects taking place on the Centralia High School campus are on track to wrap up around the end of the school year, Superintendent Chuck Lane reported at Thursday nig...
Jan 24, 2025
Police Beat for Friday, January 24th, 2025
Centralia Police have arrested 65-year-old Joel Firebaugh of South James for criminal trespass to a building. He was taken to the Marion County Jail. 40-year-old Christy Hamburg of South Brookside in ...
Jan 24, 2025
Kaskaskia College Fall 2024 Dean's List and President's List
Kaskaskia College President's List for Fall 2024 Centralia, IL - Congratulations to the full- and part-time students on the Kaskaskia College Dean's List for the fall 2024 semester. This list includes...
Jan 24, 2025
SCHS Honor Roll
Attached are the 2024-2025 Semester 1 Honor Roll and High Honor Roll for Salem Community High School. Seniors Aaron, Anneliese R. Arnold, Savannah D. Austin, Lillian G. Baltimore, Isaac E. Bass...
Jan 24, 2025
In closing arguments, prosecutor alleges Madigan was driven by 'power and profit'
by Hannah Meisel, Capitol News Illinois January 23, 2025 CHICAGO - As prosecutors began their closing arguments Wednesday in the trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, they accused th...
Jan 23, 2025 Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan leaves the Dirksen Federal Courthouse on Jan. 7, 2025, after his first day of surprise testimony in his corruption trial. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Ismael M. Belkoura)
Five Big Obstacles to Opening Child Care Facilities in Rural Illinois
by Molly Parker, Capitol News Illinois ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Sixty percent...
Jan 23, 2025 Heather Casner with Raydyan Taylor, 2, at Our World of Learning Child Development Center. Casner and her husband started the day care center in rural Anna, Illinois. (Julia Rendleman for ProPublica)
Salem man pleads guilty to dissemination of a sex image
A 20-year-old Salem man has pleaded guilty in Marion County Court to nonconsensual dissemination of a sexual image. In exchange for the plea, Dru Willhoite of the Selmaville Road had a count of child ...
Jan 23, 2025
Rural Odin man pleads to one of four gun charges
A 20-year-old rural Odin man has pleaded guilty in Marion County Court to one of four weapons charges pending against him. Tyler Davis of East Norton Road admitted to possession of a firearm without r...
Jan 23, 2025 Blogtrepreneur / CC
Salem man receives three-year prison term after drug court probation is revoked
A 24-year-old Salem man has been sentenced to three years in prison after he failed to complete the drug court program. Anthony Dickerson of West Lake received the three year prison term on three sepa...
Jan 23, 2025 Anthony Dickerson
Police Beat for Thursday, January 23rd, 2025
A 34-year-old Centralia man has been arrested on warrants from three counties. Centralia Police arrested Nathan Watts of East 11th on outstanding Marion and Clinton County no bond felony warrants and ...
Jan 23, 2025
