Category Archives: Local News
Police Beat for Monday, April 29th, 2024
Centralia Police arrested 42-year-old Jacklin Tate of Centralia for resisting arrest and criminal trespass to railroad property. She is being held in the Marion County Jail pending a first appearance ...
Apr 29, 2024
Former New Baden Grade School teacher sentenced to 10 years for asking minors for explicit images on Snapchat
A US District Court Judge has sentenced a former teacher at the New Baden Grade School to ten years imprisonment for soliciting child abuse material from minors. 26-year-old Jonathan C. Villmer, Jr. o...
Apr 28, 2024
Kell Fire Department gets $26,000 grant for equipment improvements
The Kell Fire Protection District has received a $26,000 Office of State Fire Marshal Small Equipment Grant. The funds will allow the purchase of a breathing air compressor to fill self-contained brea...
Apr 28, 2024
Another big year for SCHS Green Team electronic recycling drive
There was another large turnout on Friday for the Salem Community High School Green Team Electronic Recycling Drive. Noah Slater is the President of the student recycling effort. "We've had a pretty c...
Apr 28, 2024 Some of the boxes of recycled electronics collected during Friday's community drive. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Students from Sandoval, Odin and Patoka get firsthand look at consequences from intoxicated and distracted driving
Story and photos by Steven Stilt With prom season in full swing and graduation just around the corner, students from Sandoval, Odin, and Patoka high schools saw firsthand the dangers of intoxicated an...
Apr 28, 2024 Firefighters and Marion County Coroner Troy Cannon surround a student portraying a crash victim. Photo by Steven Stilt.
Police Beat for Sunday, April 28th, 2024
Salem Police arrested 44-year-old Billy Smith of Butler, Illinois for felony domestic battery following an altercation at a residence he has been staying on East Bryan Street in Salem. Police report t...
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FEC fines ex-Congressman Rodney Davis $43,475 for campaign finance violations
By JOHN O'CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The Federal Election Commission has fined the campaign fund of a former Illinois congressman $43,475 for failing to refund excess contribu...
Apr 28, 2024 FILE - U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis, R-Ill., right, speaks during a House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 18, 2022. The Federal Election Commission has fined the campaign fund of former Illinois Congressman Davis and its treasurer $43,475 for failing to refund excess contributions in a timely manner. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)
3 children in minivan hurt when it rolled down hill, into baseball dugout wall in Illinois
WOODSTOCK, Ill. (AP) - Three children were hurt when the minivan they were in rolled down a hill Saturday morning into a concrete baseball dugout in northern Illinois' Woodstock. The children, ages 12...
Apr 28, 2024
State Police release names of those involved in one-car crash on Selmaville Road
State Police have released more details on those involved in a single-vehicle crash Friday morning on Selmaville Road near the Scout Road intersection southwest of Salem. The driver of the car was 47-...
Apr 27, 2024 ISP FILE PHOTO: An Illinois State Police squad car is pictured in a file photo.(Capitol News Illinois file photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Salem juvenile girl injured in single car wreck on Iuka Road
A 16-year-old Salem juvenile girl was injured when losing control of her car when swerving to avoid a deer on the 2100 block of Iuka Road in rural Iuka Friday night. Marion County Sheriff's Deputies s...
Apr 27, 2024