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The Marion County Sheriff's Department has released more information on a one-vehicle rollover crash early Thursday night on Route 161 Extension at Buchanan Road in rural Iuka. Sheriff's Deputies say ...

A 27-year-old Centralia man has been sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty in Marion County Court Friday to aggravated fleeing or attempting to elude police. Brady Collins of Shattu...

A 65-year-old Salem man was ordered by Judge Joel Powless on Friday to remain in the Marion County Jail without bond following an assault on two Salem Police officers on Wednesday. Charles Huggins had...

A 46-year-old Sandoval man has been charged in Marion County Court with aggravated domestic battery and domestic battery following a July 27th incident. Jason Yarbrough of North Vine is accused of int...

Salem Police arrested a 44-year-old Salem man for aggravated domestic battery, interfering with the reporting of domestic battery, and on a Lawrence County no bond failure to appear warrant on a felon...

The City of Centralia issued 13 building permits in July totaling $247,725. Seven of them were for rooftop solar arrays. Those projects total $231,225. Other permits included one for Mission Centralia...

The Environmental Protection Agency is issuing an emergency fuel waiver to help alleviate gasoline shortages in four Midwest states after the shutdown of an refinery in Illinois. Exxon Mobil shut down...

More severe thunderstorms crossed Marion, Clay and Wayne Counties late Thursday morning. The storms also dumped an additional 1.17 inches of rain at the Salem Water Plant and 88-hundredths of an inch ...

Sandoval Police have arrested 46-year-old Jason Yarbrough of North Vine in Sandoval for aggravated domestic battery. He was taken to the Marion County Jail. Three others were brought to jail on no bon...

The champions of the various categories of competition in the Marion County Exhibit building have been named. They include Sherry Hargis of Salem for Champion Handicraft, Morgan Robb of Alma Champion ...