Category Archives: Local News
State of Illinois earns Aetna Workplace Well-being Platinum Award for fourth consecutive year
The Illinois Department of Central Management Services (CMS) announced it has received the 2025 Aetna Workplace Well-being Platinum Award, the highest level of recognition offered by Aetna. This marks...
Oct 13, 2025
Two Candidates for Governor in Salem for Marion County Republican Women's Ronald Reagan Tribute Dinner
Two of the Republican candidates for Governor spoke at the Marion County Republican Women's Ronald Reagan Tribute Dinner on Saturday at the Marion County Fairgrounds Exhibit building. Ted Dabrowski wa...
Oct 13, 2025 Gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey speaks to the audience at the Ronald Reagan Tribute Dinner. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Rural Kell Man refuses hospital treatment following rollover crash
A 33-year-old rural Kell man declined hospital treatment for minor injuries sustained in a pickup truck rollover crash early Monday morning on the South Hotze Road south of the Red Stripe Road interse...
Oct 13, 2025
Squirrel blamed for power outage on part of Woodland Drive in Salem
Salem Fire Chief Jim Cerny says a report of an explosion that knocked out power to parts of the 200 and 300 blocks of Woodland Drive late Monday morning apparently was the result of a squirrel touchin...
Oct 13, 2025
Centralia City Council to discuss extension of TIF 3
The Centralia City Council Tuesday night will be asked to support a 12-year extension of the downtown TIF 3 district. The Centralia Railroad Corridor Redevelopment Plan TIF #3 was first put into place...
Oct 13, 2025
Police Beat for Monday, October 13th, 2025
Marion County Sheriff's Deputies arrested 31-year-old Christopher Budds of West Schwartz in Salem on an outstanding Marion County no bond felony warrant. He was taken to the Marion County Jail to awai...
Oct 13, 2025
Salem Man Airlifted to St. Louis Hospital Following Four Wheeler Crash
A 33-year-old Salem man was injured in a side-by-side rollover in rural Iuka on Saturday afternoon. Marion County Sheriff's Deputies say Rocky Robinette of South Franklin was lying on Quail Run Road n...
Oct 12, 2025 Air Evac Medical Helicopter.
Police Beat for Sunday, October 12th, 2025
Centralia Police arrested 40-year-old Richard Burkett of South Poplar in Centralia on Saturday for felony criminal trespass to property with a person present and misdemeanor criminal trespass. He was ...
Oct 12, 2025
Court: National Guard troops sent to Illinois by Trump can stay but can't be deployed for now
CHICAGO (AP) - National Guard troops sent to Illinois by President Donald Trump can stay in the state and under federal control, but can't be deployed to protect federal property or go on patrol for n...
Oct 12, 2025 Illinois State Police stand guard as people including members of the Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership (CSPL) gather outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Ill., Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)
Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, Loyola Chicago's beloved chaplain, dies at 106
By ANDREW SELIGMAN and TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writers CHICAGO (AP) - Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the chaplain for the men's basketball team at Loyola Chicago who became a beloved international celebr...
Oct 12, 2025 FILE - Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the Loyola University men's basketball chaplain and school celebrity, sits for a portrait in The Joseph J. Gentile Arena, on Monday, Jan. 23, 2023, in Chicago. T(AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski, file)
