Category Archives: Local News
Pritzker signs bill enacting immigrant protections in courthouses
by Brenden Moore, Capitol News Illinois December 9, 2025 Article Summary State lawmakers worked behind the scenes for weeks to craft a package to respond to the federal immigration campaign known as "...
Dec 10, 2025 Jose Jeronimo Guardian, 48, was detained for deportation in the Clinton County Courthouse on Monday, October 27, 2025, in Carlyle, as his daughter watched. The men who arrested Guardian declined to identify themselves and took him out of the courthouse in handcuffs. Guardian is undocumented and was attempting to go to a Spanish-language traffic court for charges unrelated to his immigration status. (Illinois Answers Project photo by Janelle O’Dea)
Sandoval man sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty to drug and driving charges
A 52-year-old Sandoval man has been sentenced to a total of six years in prison after pleading guilty in Marion County on Tuesday to two separate possession of methamphetamine charges and driving on a...
Dec 10, 2025
Police Beat for Wednesday, December 10th, 2025
Central City Police arrested 31-year-old Zachary Roper of North Morrison in Central City for alleged domestic battery. He was taken to the Marion County Jail. Three others are being held on no bond fe...
Dec 10, 2025
Centralia City Schools Board supports TIF 3 extension
The Centralia City Schools Board of Education approved a resolution to support a twelve-year extension of Centralia's Tax Increment Financing District Three. Economic Development Director Rob Jackson ...
Dec 10, 2025
Body Found in Rural Centralia in October Is Positively Identified as Homeless Centralia Man
Clinton County Coroner Phillip Moss says the decomposed body found in rural Centralia on October 10th has been identified as 57-year-old John Hunt of Centralia. Moss believes Hunt had been dead about ...
Dec 09, 2025
Public libraries across Illinois to stock, administer opioid overdose reversal agents
The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) has issued an updated standing order which adds Illinois public libraries to the list of locations that are permitted to keep a supply of opioid overdos...
Dec 09, 2025
Illinois winter disconnection rule in effect through March
The Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) is reminding customers that the state's winter weather rule is in effect from December 1 - March 31. The winter weather rule limits utilities from disconnecting ...
Dec 09, 2025
Boundary maintenance work at Carlyle Lake begins December 15
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Carlyle Lake will be performing boundary maintenance work from December 15, 2025, through January 9, 2026, on multiple sections of the boundary line at Carlyle Lake...
Dec 09, 2025
Marion County joins Major Case Squad
Marion County has joined the Downstate Major Case Squad. Sheriff Kevin Cripps asked the Marion County Board to approve the memorandum of understanding which sets out the guidelines of how the squad wo...
Dec 09, 2025
Centralia Correctional Center continues HVAC certification program
As part of the vocational school program at the Centralia Correctional Center, approved inmates have been given the chance to receive HVAC certification by receiving instruction in a newly established...
Dec 09, 2025 Instructor Zachary Miller with several of his students who completed the HVAC certification on Monday. Photo by Austin Williams.
