Category Archives: Local News
First male and female baby of 2024 honored at SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital
SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital in Mt. Vernon is honoring the first baby boy and girl of the new year. The first arrival was Dywon Antonio Dixon, Junior of Nashville. The son of Dywon Dixon and Han...
Jan 03, 2024 First baby of the New Year at SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital. Dywon Antonio Dixon Junior with parents Hannah Goza and Dywon DIxon.
Alma man arrested for drug delivery with some sales taking place at Salem business
A 21-year-old Alma man has been arrested on drug delivery charges some of which took place while he was employed at a Salem business. Hayden Harper of Public Highway was arrested at his home Tuesday b...
Jan 03, 2024
Police Beat for Wednesday, January 3rd, 2024
Centralia Police have arrested a 44-year-old Centralia woman on an outstanding warrant for failure to appear on a possession of methamphetamine case. April Gowen of McKee Street is currently on probat...
Jan 03, 2024
Central City man arrested on 10 counts of child pornography
A 30-year-old Central City man has been arrested by Centralia Police on an arrest warrant charging ten counts of possession of child pornography. Jason Howard of South Harrison was taken to the Marion...
Jan 03, 2024
More details released on New Year's morning shooting in Salem, man arrested ordered held without bond
More details have emerged about the early New Year's morning shooting of a Salem juvenile as Marion County State's Attorney Tim Hudspeth presents his probable cause statement in Marion County Court on...
Jan 03, 2024
Salem to celebrate Independence Day on July 4th, will keep music program
The Salem City Council Tuesday night voted to celebrate Independence Day on Thursday, July 4th. They also decided to keep the fireworks display and the afternoon music program at the Bryan Park Band S...
Jan 03, 2024 Salem City Clerk Tabitha Meador receives approval for change in promoter for 4th of July music program in Bryan Memorial Park. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Wamac City Council approves cannabis grow facility
By Austin Williams The Wamac City Council gave its approval Tuesday night to the establishment of a cannabis grow facility in an existing property by Emerald Valley Industries, following the recommend...
Jan 03, 2024 Emerald Valley CEO Dameon Johnson speaks to the Wamac Board Tuesday night on plans for a cannabis grow facility. Photo by Austin WIlliams.
HSHS St. Joseph's Hospital Breese Welcomes New Year's Baby
HSHS St. Joseph's Hospital Breese is welcoming Jemma Marie Von Hatten as the 2024 New Year's baby. She arrived on Monday, January 1, weighing 8 pounds 3 ounces and 21 inches long. Jemma's proud parent...
Jan 02, 2024 Courtney and Justin Von Hatten proudly introduce their daughter, Jemma Marie Von Hatten, HSHS St. Joseph’s Hospital Breese’s New Year’s Baby of 2024. They are joined by nurses from the Women and Infants Center. (back row: left to right) Ruth Rainey, RN; Teresa Haake, RN; and Jill Witte, RN.
A missing person with no memory: How investigators solved the cold case of Seven Doe
By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) - Buried at the edge of a Chicago Catholic cemetery are an elderly person's remains marked only by a cement cylinder deep in the ground labeled with the ...
Jan 02, 2024 Cook County, Ill., Sheriff's Commander Jason Moran, who leads the sheriff's missing persons initiative stands in silhouette and points to a round cylinder that marks a grave of a person who self-identified as Seven, at the Mount Olivet Cemetery on Chicago's Far South Side Monday, Nov. 13, 2023. “That’s a horrible circumstance that someone could die and no one knows who they are. That’s why we pursue these cases so strongly, out of dignity,” says Moran, who oversees the sheriff’s missing persons unit. “A person deserves a name.” (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Salem Police release details on Friday night crash that sent one to hospital
Salem Police have released details on a Friday night traffic crash at West Main and Hotze Road that sent one person to the hospital for treatment. Police say a car driven by 68-year-old James Nash of ...
Jan 02, 2024