Category Archives: Local News
Salem Community Thanksgiving Dinner set for Saturday, November 16
The Salem Community Thanksgiving Dinner has been set for Saturday, November 16. The dinner was created 8 years ago as a time for everyone in the community to share in a dinner. One of the organizers f...
Nov 08, 2024 File photo: volunteers prepare dinners at the 2022 Salem Community Thanksgiving Dinner.
Marion County Sheriff's Deputies investigate two burglaries
The Marion County Sheriff's Department is investigating two burglaries. The department reported a shed and basement at a residence on the 2700 block of Old U.S. 51 near Bethel Road was entered with al...
Nov 08, 2024
Centralia man pleads guilty to felony theft charge
A 19-year-old Centralia man has pleaded guilty in Marion County Court to a felony theft charge in exchange for a residential burglary charge being dropped. Isaac Tate of Devonia Drive had originally b...
Nov 08, 2024 Blogtrepreneur / CC
Salem woman pleads guilty to reduced charge on phone threat to Salem Grade School bus driver
A 34-year-old Salem woman has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge in connection with a threatening voice mail left on the voice mail of a Salem Grade School Administrator. Marisa Starnes of South Lacke...
Nov 08, 2024 halfpoint / Depositphotos.com
Salem woman pleads guilty to reduced drug charge
A 35-year-old Salem woman has pleaded guilty in Marion County Court to possession of between 15 and 100 grams of methamphetamine. As part of the plea, Whitley Mulvaney of Meadow Lane had a Class X cha...
Nov 08, 2024 Whitley Mulvaney
ICC approves improvements to Kinmundy railroad crossing
The Illinois Commerce Commission has approved a $130,000 improvement to the West 4th Street railroad crossing in Kinmundy. The improvements will be to the approaches and curbing. The entire cost will ...
Nov 08, 2024
Temporary closure of the James Hawn Wetland Area
The James Hawn Wetland Area at Carlyle Lake will be closed for the 2024/25 waterfowl hunting season to allow for essential levee repairs. During this closure, hunters may still access Blind 3 and Pit ...
Nov 07, 2024
Illinois State Police arrests wife of judge for murder
Illinois State Police agents arrested 44-year-old Megan S. Valentine of Albion, IL in connection with the fatal shooting death of her husband, Illinois Second Judicial Circuit Court Judge Michael J. V...
Nov 07, 2024 Megan Valentine
Nigerian National Sentenced to Federal Prison for Defrauding Seniors through Manipulation, Romance Scams
A U.S. District judge at Benton sentenced a Nigerian national to seven years in federal prison for conducting a romance scam that stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from at least a dozen identifie...
Nov 07, 2024 Blogtrepreneur / CC
Two escape injury when car misses curve and runs into ditch in rural Salem
The Marion County Sheriff's Department reports no one was injured when the driver of a car failed to negotiate a curve and ran off the 8700 block of Baker Road northeast of Salem early Wednesday night...
Nov 07, 2024
