Category Archives: Local News
Illinois election officials to weigh recommendation to remove Trump's name from March primary ballot
CHICAGO (AP) - Former President Donald Trump should be removed from Illinois' primary ballot, but the decision should be left to the courts, a retired judge recommended Sunday to the state's election ...
Jan 29, 2024 The Illinois State Board of Elections building is pictured in Springfield. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)
Centralia Firemen called to two fires Saturday
Centralia City Firemen were called to two fires on Saturday. The first call was at the Don Rightnowar home on Estate Drive when a natural gas line to a gas fireplace insert broke and caught fire where...
Jan 28, 2024
Police Beat for Sunday, January 28th, 2024
A 31-year-old Centralia man has been arrested by Wamac Police on a felony failure to appear warrant in an aggravated DUI case. Artemio Carmona-Belesco of Wabash Avenue was taken to the Marion County J...
Jan 28, 2024
Panel of experts suggest legislative measures to reverse journalism decline
Potential solutions include tax breaks for subscribers, advertisers By ALEX ABBEDUTO Capitol News Illinois abbeduto@capitolnewsillinois.com A bipartisan task force of legislators and journalism indust...
Jan 28, 2024
Two receive minor injuries in crash on Route 37 South
Two people received minor injuries in a single-vehicle crash Friday night on Route 37 near the CJ Heck Road intersection south of Salem. Marion County Sheriff's Deputies say 22-year-old Austin Unsel o...
Jan 27, 2024
Police Beat for Saturday, January 27th, 2024
A 60-year-old Odin man has been arrested by Centralia Police for domestic battery. Donald Fowler of North Merritt was taken to the Marion County Jail. A 43-year-old Terre Haute, Indiana man was arrest...
Jan 27, 2024
Carbondale man sentenced to 40 years in prison for first-degree murder of daughter
A 47-year-old Carbondale man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for the first-degree murder of his daughter. Isaac Hill was found guilty of the charge following a bench trial in Jackson County C...
Jan 27, 2024 Issac Hill
A private prison health care company accused of substandard care is awarded new contract in Illinois
By JOHN O'CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois has awarded a more than $4 billion prison medical care contract to the same company it's used for three decades, despite multimil...
Jan 27, 2024 FILE - Security fences surround the Illinois Department of Corrections' Logan Correctional Center, Nov. 18, 2016, in Lincoln, Ill. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker's administration has retained a contentious choice for providing medical care to prison inmates, awarding Wexford Health Sources a 10-year, $4.16 billion contract despite high vacancy rates, complaints of substandard care and lawmakers' agitation to find a replacement. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)
Two teenage boys shot and killed leaving Chicago school
CHICAGO (AP) - Two teenage boys were shot and killed Friday afternoon while they were leaving school, authorities said. The boys, ages 16 and 17, were among a group of students walking out of the Inno...
Jan 27, 2024
Evacuations underway in northeast Illinois after ice jam break on river causes significant flooding
WILMINGTON, Ill. (AP) - Authorities were evacuating homes Friday in northeastern Illinois after an ice jam break along the Kankakee River led to major flooding that was threatening about 200 homes. A ...
Jan 27, 2024 File photo