Category Archives: Local News
Indiana Governor Now Has Bill for Study of Annexation of Illinois Counties
The Indiana Senate has joined the Indiana House in passing a bill to create the 'Indiana-Illinois Boundary Adjustment Commission' that would study bringing 33 rural Illinois counties into the state th...
Apr 19, 2025 jetcityimage2 / Depositphotos.com
Police Beat for Saturday, April 19th, 2025
Salem Police arrested 26-year-old Jeremiah Meyer of Meachum Road in Kinmundy for felony criminal damage to property after he allegedly threw a landscape brick into one of the large plate glass windows...
Apr 19, 2025
Severe storms cross Marion County, causing heaviest damage in Salem and northeast Marion County (update 7 pm Saturday)
Damage is reported in both Salem and northeast Marion County from a fast-moving severe thunderstorm early Saturday morning that may have produced a tornado. In Salem, the tornado siren behind Taco Bel...
Apr 19, 2025 Damage to one of the barns at the 3 C Rodeo on Kinmundy Road southeast of Kinmundy. Photo by Angie Brubaker.
Jones testifies that FBI asked him to wear a wire on hospital CEO, other lawmakers
by Hannah Meisel, Capitol News Illinois April 18, 2025 CHICAGO - Federal agents asked state Sen. Emil Jones III to wear a wire against a politically connected hospital CEO and his fellow lawmakers in ...
Apr 18, 2025 State Sen. Emil Jones III leaves the Dirksen Federal Courthouse on Thursday, April 17, after finishing three days of testifying in his own defense at his corruption trial. Closing arguments are set for Monday. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Salem's Spring City Wide Cleanup will be next week
The City of Salem Public Works Department has announced that the City Wide Clean Up will be held next week. The City's residential trash hauler, Sunrise Sanitation, will collect items on your regularl...
Apr 18, 2025
117 seniors attend Salem Senior Fair
There were 117 who registered their attendance at State Representative Blaine Wilhour's Senior Fair that was held Thursday morning at the Salem Community Activity Center. That's up from the 90 that at...
Apr 18, 2025 Visitors at the Senior Fair. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Homeless person living in storage unit blamed for fire
Salem Assistant Fire Chief Bill Fulton says a homeless person living in a storage unit at Red Roof Storage at West Lake and South Broadway in Salem appears to have started a fire that damaged several ...
Apr 18, 2025
Illinois wheat referendum passes
Illinois wheat producers approved a measure to bring a wheat check-off program to the State of Illinois. By a vote of 207 to 69, producers passed a referendum to implement a voluntary wheat check-off ...
Apr 18, 2025 USDA NRCS Montana
Centralia home heavily damaged in early Friday morning fire
An investigation is underway to the cause of a fire that heavily damaged a home at 604 West 6th Street in Centralia early Friday morning. None of the three occupants of the residence were home at the ...
Apr 18, 2025
Police Beat for Friday, April 18th, 2025
Three people were taken to the Marion County Jail on outstanding warrants on Thursday. A 46-year-old Centralia man, Shaun Vaughn of South Locust, was arrested by Centralia Police on an outstanding Mar...
Apr 18, 2025
