Category Archives: Local News
Kids Day at the Marion County Fair celebrates 20th Year Monday
Kids Day at the Marion County Fair is Monday. This is the 20th year for the program that offers free activities to kids who come to the fairgrounds between nine am and two pm. One of the organizers is...
Jul 28, 2024 Earlier Kids Day at the Marion County Fair.
State Police report more details on Thursday afternoon crash on Route 37 south of Salem
State Police have released the names of those involved in a two pickup truck crash on Route 37 at the Church Road intersection south of Salem Thursday afternoon. State Police report the driver of the ...
Jul 27, 2024
Centralia man faces five charges after woman falls from top of his car
A 54-year-old Centralia man has been charged in Marion County Court with five offenses following a Thursday evening incident where a 21-year-old Centralia woman fell off the top of his car following a...
Jul 27, 2024
Motorcyclist involved in chase with Kinmundy Police gets away
Kinmundy Police report a motorcyclist they were trying to stop late Friday afternoon fled instead and led them on a lengthy chase around the Kinmundy and Alma area. The motorcycle eventually was laid ...
Jul 27, 2024 telas1020@gmail.com / Depositphotos.com
Police Beat for Saturday, July 27th, 2024
Three people were taken to the Marion County Jail on Friday on no bond failure to appear warrants. 31-year-old Zachary Moore of South Locust in Centralia was arrested by Centralia Police on a felony w...
Jul 27, 2024
Autopsy confirms Sonya Massey died from gunshot wound to head, as attorney calls shooting senseless
By JOHN O'CONNOR and RICK CALLAHAN Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Autopsy findings released Friday on Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman fatally shot in her Illinois home by a now-fire...
Jul 27, 2024 Ben Crump, the civil rights attorney representing the family of Sonya Massey, stands next to a diagram from the slain woman's autopsy on Friday, June 26, 2024, in Springfield, Ill., and gestures to show the downward angle in which Sangamon County Sheriff's Deputy Sean Grayson shot Massey in the face early on July 6. Massey had called 911 with suspicions of a prowler near her Springfield home. Grayson has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and other charges. (AP Photo/John O'Connor)
Quantum business park coming to Chicago, backed by $700M from state of Illinois
Former U.S. Steel plant will host 'quantum campus' development By ANDREW ADAMS Capitol News Illinois aadams@capitolnewsillinois.com CHICAGO - A California-based quantum computing company wants to buil...
Jul 27, 2024 Gov. JB Pritzker, a self-professed “quantum geek,” announces the development of a quantum business and research park at the former site of a U.S. Steel plant on Chicago’s southeast side. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Salem Community Theatre celebrates Harry Potter's Birthday Saturday evening
The Salem Community Theatre celebrates Harry Potter's Birthday on Saturday. Kathy Garren has put together the program. "This year we are entering Hogwarts for the fifth time. We are to the Order of Ph...
Jul 27, 2024 Harry Potter Christmas scene for 2023 Birthday Celebration at the Salem Community Theatre. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Kombs Koture cuts the ribbon in downtown Centralia
The Centralia Chamber of Commerce welcomed the Kombs Koture boutique into the Centralia business community at a ribbon cutting ceremony on Friday. Business owner Olivia Pearce thanked friends and fami...
Jul 26, 2024
Centralia woman injured when falling off moving car; driver arrested
Centralia Police arrested a 44-year-old Centralia man on multiple charges early Thursday night after he allegedly drove off while a female was on top of his car who later fell off at Maulding and Jack...
Jul 26, 2024
