Category Archives: Local News
Police Beat for Saturday, March 30th, 2024
Salem Police arrested 43-year-old Tina Camp of Salem Mobile Home Park on an outstanding Marion County no-bond misdemeanor warrant. She was taken to the Marion County Jail to await a visit before the j...
Mar 30, 2024
Centralia Community Youth Center Executive Director steps down
This is the final week on the job for Centralia Community Youth Center Executive Director Herb Williams. Williams says the past ten years has been a good journey and very worthwhile, but he feels it i...
Mar 29, 2024 Herb Williams address the crowd during his Wall of Honor induction. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Centralia area Easter Egg Hunt set for Wamac Park on Sunday
Wamac Mayor Butch Mathus is preparing for a large number of kids for the annual Easter Egg Hunt at the Wamac Park on Sunday. Mathus says he wants no kid to go away empty handed with gift bags prepared...
Mar 29, 2024 Wamac Mayor Butch Mathis announcing the winners of 67 bicycles and 84 Easter Baskets at a past Easter Egg Hunt at the Wamac City Park. Photo by Pat Hodges.
Unemployment drops across South Central Illinois in February
After a jump in January, unemployment numbers have come back down for area counties in February. Marion County had an unemployment rate of 5.1-percent. That's down a half percent from January and up a...
Mar 29, 2024 maxxyustas / Depositphotos.com
Magnitude 2.8 earthquake Thursday night near Germantown; no damage or injuries reported
GERMANTOWN, Ill. (AP) - An earthquake of magnitude 2.8 has been reported north of Germantown in Clinton County. The U.S. Geological Survey reported the earthquake was detected about 6:55 Thursday nigh...
Mar 29, 2024
Salem woman formally charged with leaving threatening voice mail against Salem Grade School bus
A 33-year-old Salem woman was formally charged in Marion County Court Thursday with felony intimidation and disorderly conduct in connection with a voice mail left threatening the driver and students ...
Mar 29, 2024 Blogtrepreneur / CC
Salem Mayor looks at accomplishments and upcoming projects in State of the City Message
Salem Mayor Nic Farley says job growth has returned to the city and looked back at a number of accomplishments during the past year in his annual State of the City Message. Farley told those in attend...
Mar 29, 2024 Salem Mayor Nic Farley delivers the State of the City message at A Fair Barn on Thursday afternoon.
Belleville man receives 40 years for Washington County murder
A 45-year-old Belleville man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for his role in a Washington County murder. Kevin Loucks is one of three men charged with the July 2023 murder of 44-year-old Mont...
Mar 28, 2024 (left to right) Kevin Loucks, Milton Robinson and Arrion Sanders.
Suspect charged with murder, attempted murder in a series of stabbings in Rockford, Illinois
By KATHLEEN FOODY, RICK CALLAHAN and COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) - A 22-year-old man has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder in a frenzied stabbing rampage that kille...
Mar 28, 2024 This photo provided by Winnebago County, Illinois, jail shows Christian Ivan Soto. Soto, 22, of Rockford, Ill., was charged Thursday, March 28, 2024 with first-degree murder in a stabbing rampage that killed four people in northern Illinois, Winnebago County State’s Attorney J. Hanley said. (Winnebago County, Illinois, jail via AP)
Salem Township Hospital approves $8.8-million budget for coming fiscal year
The Salem Township Hospital Board on Wednesday passed an $8.8-million budget for the coming fiscal year that begins April 1st. Hospital Interim President Lisa Ambuehl says a 20-percent net profit is f...
Mar 28, 2024 Lisa Ambuehl
