Category Archives: Local News
Electrical fire damages Kinmundy home
An electrical fire is blamed for damaging the second story of a Kinmundy home late Thursday afternoon. Kinmundy-Alma Fire Chief Kevin Day says the fire was at the David Smith-Gibbson home in the 100 b...
Feb 22, 2025
Marion County Drug Court Participant Sent to Prison After Failing Program
A 27-year-old Centralia man who failed to complete the Marion County Drug Court program has been sentenced to three years in prison. Zechariaha Pigg of County Highway 18 had pleaded guilty to two coun...
Feb 22, 2025 Blogtrepreneur / CC
Two arrested on felony drug charges by Nashville Police
Two people were taken to the Washington County Jail in Nashville on felony drug charges following a traffic stop in Nashville late Thursday night. Nashville Police arrested the driver, 36-year-old Jes...
Feb 22, 2025
Police Beat for Saturday, February 22nd, 2025
Wamac Police arrested 53-year-old John Willis of North Poplar in Centralia for alleged aggravated battery. He was taken to the Marion County Jail. No other details are currently available. 43-year-old...
Feb 22, 2025
SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital achieves Bronze Level Safe Sleep Certification
SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon has received the Bronze Cribs for Kids National Safe Sleep Hospital certification. The certification recognizes the hospital's Women's Center and Level ...
Feb 22, 2025
Lawmakers weigh whether to legalize 'medical aid in dying'
Doctors, disability activists split on support for the controversial procedure By ANDREW ADAMS Capitol News Illinois aadams@capitolnewsillinois.com CHICAGO - Lawmakers are considering legalizing a con...
Feb 22, 2025 Deb Robertson, a Lombard woman facing a terminal cancer diagnosis, speaks in favor of legislation that would allow doctors to prescribe lethal medication to dying patients. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Committee advances bill to ban vehicle searches based on smell of cannabis
Legislation comes after state Supreme Court ruled burnt, raw cannabis odors are governed by different laws By BEN SZALINSKI Capitol News Illinois bszalinski@capitolnewsillinois.com An Illinois Senate ...
Feb 22, 2025 A Senate committee advanced a bill that would end the state’s law requiring cannabis to be transported in an odor-proof container. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Campbell)
School insurance trust drops $7 million in the red
An insurance trust utilized by 80 school districts in the state, mostly in Southern Illinois, has fallen $7 million in the red due to higher-than-expected medical claims and drug costs. The Salem Grad...
Feb 21, 2025 Marco Verch Professional Photographer / CC
More renovation work planned this summer at Franklin Park Middle School
More renovation work is planned this summer at Franklin Park Middle School in Salem. Salem Grade School Superintendent Dr. Leslie Foppe says 30,000 square feet of carpeting in the 6th, 7th, 8th grade,...
Feb 21, 2025 Members of Fraklin Park Girls State Basketball Championship team visit the Salem Grade School Board Meeting Thursday night. Left to right: Coach Ashley Bolton, Kennedi Simmons, Lilli Meyers, Serenity Lund, Madi Spencer, Brynn Kessler, Braelan Knaak, Kenna Benjamin, Maci Susmena
Condemned mobile home destroyed by fire in Centralia
A condemned vacant mobile home was destroyed by fire Friday morning in Centralia. Centralia City Firemen say flames were coming through the roof of the home at 1403 South Elm upon their arrival just b...
Feb 21, 2025 Remains of a mobile home destroyed by fire in the 1400 block of South Elm. Photo by Tim Ferguson.
