Category Archives: Local News
June Centralia building permit report led by 15 residential solar projects
The city of Centralia issued building permits for 15 residential solar projects during June, more than half the total permits issued. The total construction value is $752,376 on the 27 permits issued ...
Jul 07, 2024 MAXSHOT / Depositphotos.com
Tropical Storm Beryl could bring heavy rains to South Central Illinois
The National Weather Service is watching the track of Tropical Storm Beryl very closely. By Tuesday-Tuesday night, the remnants of Beryl may bring the region some impacts, though there is some uncerta...
Jul 07, 2024
Salem mobile home destroyed by fire Saturday morning
A fire that destroyed a mobile home on the south side of Salem is under investigation by the Illinois State Fire Marshall's office. Salem Assistant Fire Chief Bill Fulton says flames were shooting fro...
Jul 06, 2024 Firemen battle a mobile home fire at 800 South Washington Street in Salem. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Centralia man gets 4-year prison term for criminal trespass and aggravated battery
A 26-year-old Centralia man has been sentenced to four years in prison for criminal trespass to a residence and aggravated battery to another inmate while being held in the Marion County Jail. Joshua ...
Jul 06, 2024
Governor signs bill to help Illinois with large medical debt
Governor JB Pritzker has signed a pair of bills aimed at helping Illinoisans get out from under medical debt. Capitol News Illinois reports lawmakers passed the legislation - which allows the state to...
Jul 06, 2024 digicomphoto / Depositphotos.com
Illinois switching to ACT exams for state assessments for high school students
High school students to start new exams in spring 2025 By PETER HANCOCK Capitol News Illinois phancock@capitolnewsillinois.com SPRINGFIELD - When Illinois high school students sit down to take their a...
Jul 06, 2024 (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Campbell)
Pritzker meets with Biden, Dem governors concerned about president's campaign
Meeting comes after calls for Biden to step down as Democratic candidate By HANNAH MEISEL Capitol News Illinois hmeisel@capitolnewsillinois.com Gov. JB Pritzker traveled to the White House to meet wit...
Jul 06, 2024 Gov. JB Pritzker is pictured in a file photo in his Illinois State Capitol office. The governor traveled to the White House on Monday to meet with the president and many of the nation’s other Democratic governors. (Capitol News Illinois file photo by Jerry Nowicki)
July Fourth violence nationwide kills at least 33, Chicago 'in state of grief,' mayor says
By JOHN RABY Associated Press Shootings and other violence during the extended Fourth of July weekend have left at least 33 people dead, including 11 in Chicago, and injured dozens more nationwide, au...
Jul 06, 2024
A green flag for clean power: NASCAR unveils its first electric racecar
By JENNIFER McDERMOTT and JAY COHEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) - Part of the experience of a NASCAR race is hearing the engine roar, the rumble of each car's approach and the zip when it whizzes pa...
Jul 06, 2024 CJ Tobin, senior engineer of vehicle systems, cleans a prototype of the first electric racecar at the NASCAR R&D Center in Concord, N.C., Monday, July 1, 2024. The top motorsports series in North America partnered with Chevrolet, Ford, Toyota and electrification company ABB to demonstrate a high-performance electric vehicle and gauge fan interest in electric racing. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond)
Police Beat for Saturday, July 6th, 2024
A 52-year-old Junction City man has been arrested by Salem Police on a felony failure to appear warrant in a domestic battery case. Henry Rowcliff was taken to the Marion County Jail on a bond warrant...
Jul 06, 2024
