Category Archives: Local News
Centralia Firemen handle two minor fires on Friday
Centralia City Firemen handled two small fires on Friday. The first was a small fire along the outside of a garage wall in an alleyway in the 600 block of Gragg Street. The fire at the Kandice and Tim...
Feb 24, 2024
Police Beat for Saturday, February 24th, 2024
A 46-year-old Centralia man was arrested by Centralia Police early Friday for alleged domestic battery and obstructing/resisting a peace officer. Michael Brown of South Poplar was released from custod...
Feb 24, 2024
Illinois Department of Public Health allows schools to give medications to counter Opioid overdoses
The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) has issued an updated standing order allowing schools to keep a supply of medications like naloxone on hand, and also permitting school nurses or other ...
Feb 24, 2024 NEXT Distro / Unsplash
Illinois judge who reversed rape conviction removed from bench after panel finds he circumvented law
CHICAGO (AP) - An Illinois judge who sparked outrage by reversing a man's rape conviction involving a 16-year-old girl has been removed from the bench after a judicial oversight body found he circumve...
Feb 24, 2024 FILE - Cameron Vaughan, 18, poses for a photo on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023 in Chicago. Vaughan told The Associated Press that she was completely shocked when Adams County Judge Robert Adrian reversed his own guilty verdict for the man who sexually assaulted her two years ago, setting him free. The Illinois Courts Commission removed Adams County Judge Robert Adrian from the bench Friday, Feb. 24, 2024, after sustaining a complaint filed against him.(AP Photo/ Claire Savage, File)
Salem Grade School Board to explore construction of administration building
The Salem Grade School Board has given Superintendent Dr. Leslie Foppe permission to further explore the cost of constructing a separate administration building on property the school acquired in late...
Feb 23, 2024
Planned solar array project put on hold at Centralia High School
A planned solar array project at Centralia High School has been put on hold. Ross Calliott of Affordable Gas and Electric reported to the CHS Board of Education on Thursday that solar company NelNet h...
Feb 23, 2024
EPA approves year-round sales of higher ethanol blend in 8 Midwest states
By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Drivers in eight Midwestern states will be able to fuel up with a higher blend of ethanol throughout the year under a final rule announced ...
Feb 23, 2024 FILE - An American Ethanol label is shown on a NASCAR race car gas tank at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas, Nov. 1, 2014. Gasoline with higher blends of ethanol could be sold year-round in eight Midwestern states beginning in 2024 under a rule proposed Wednesday, March 1, 2023, by the Environmental Protection Agency. (AP Photo/Randy Holt, File)
Centralia High School moves forward on bonds for synthetic turf football field
The Centralia High School Board of Education approved a resolution Thursday evening to authorize the issuance of bonds to fund a new synthetic turf surface for Evers Field on the CHS campus. The resol...
Feb 23, 2024 Thomas Park / Unsplash
Police Beat for Friday, February 23rd, 2024
A 44-year-old Centralia man has been arrested by Centralia Police on new charges of possession with intent to deliver methamphetamine and on an Illinois Department of Corrections warrant. Randle Gille...
Feb 23, 2024
St. Louis man receives 39-year prison term for sex acts with underage Salem girl
A 37-year-old St. Louis man has been sentenced to a total of 39 years in prison on four counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse and one Class X count of child pornography in connection with acts co...
Feb 23, 2024 Courtney Buffkins