Category Archives: Local News

Homeless Salem man charged with failure to register as sex offender and criminal trespass
A 51-year-old homeless Salem man has been charged in Marion County Court with felony failure to register as a sex offender and misdemeanor criminal trespass to real property. Clayton Worley was arrest...
Bruce Kropp Apr 30, 2024

Police Beat for Tuesday, April 30th, 2024
Wamac Police have made two arrests on no-bond warrants. 38-year-old Rhainnon Thompson of Veterans Drive in Effingham was arrested on an outstanding Effingham County felony warrant. 45-year-old John Jo...
Bruce Kropp Apr 30, 2024

Heavy rains cause low lying roads to flood
Heavy rains have caused low-lying roads to flood and at least two vehicles stalled in high water. The Salem Water Plant recorded an additional 87-hundredths of an inch of rain in the 24 hours ending a...
Bruce Kropp Apr 30, 2024 File photo of flooding on Brick Hill Road below the Raccoon Lake dam. Photo by Tim Ferguson.

Pool parties and swim lessons sign-ups open at ten Wednesday morning at Salem Family Aquatic Center
The City of Salem will open the signup for pool parties and swim lessons at ten on Wednesday morning. Pool parties and lessons are first come first serve. Everything has to be done online through the ...
Bruce Kropp Apr 30, 2024

Fire damages rural Mt. Vernon home
Jefferson Fire officials say a fire damaged the floor of a living room of a home under renovation east of Mt. Vernon Monday afternoon. Firemen were called to the Gary Elliott home in the 13,000 block ...
Bruce Kropp Apr 30, 2024 IgorVetushko / Depositphotos.com

Salem Police report no injuries in three-vehicle crash at Main and Broadway
Salem Police say all three drivers escaped injury in a three-vehicle crash at Main and Broadway during the noon hour on Monday. Police report the crash began when 19-year-old Christopher Harris-Byers ...
Bruce Kropp Apr 30, 2024

Centralia Police say rural Centralia woman escapes serious injury in one car crash
Centralia Police say a 71-year-old Centralia woman refused hospital treatment following a single-car crash in the 500 block of West McCord Street on Sunday afternoon. Reports indicate Esther Devore of...
Bruce Kropp Apr 30, 2024

State Police release results of two special April patrols in Marion County
State Police have released the results of alcohol countermeasure enforcement and distracted driving enforcement patrols conducted in April. The distracted driving patrol concentrated on Marion and Eff...
Bruce Kropp Apr 30, 2024

Election officials to weigh whether Darren Bailey and GOP operative Dan Proft illegally coordinated
Complaint brought by Democratic official likely to be decided this summer By ANDREW ADAMS & HANNAH MEISEL Capitol News Illinois news@capitolnewsillinois.com CHICAGO - A year and a half after Repub...
Bruce Kropp Apr 30, 2024 Conservative political operative Dan Proft (left) listens to testimony from former Republican gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey (right) in a hearing over allegations that the two illegally coordinated messaging campaigns in 2022. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)

Marion County weather warning sirens being tested this week
Marion County ESDA Coordinator Sheri Barter says all of the tornado warning sirens in the county as well as Centralia and Salem will be tested and where possible repaired this week. As a result, some ...
WJBD Staff Apr 30, 2024 Lake Street tornado siren. Photo by Bruce Kropp.