Category Archives: Local News
Police Beat for Friday, July 5th, 2024
Two people remain in the Marion County Jail Friday morning following separate domestic battery arrests. Marion County Sheriff's Deputies arrested 32-year-old Kyle Obermeier of North Everett in Odin, w...
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The July Fourth parade shooting paralyzed a boy. His life remains shattered 2 years later, mom says
By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) - Keely Roberts counts the days, not years, since a deadly shooting at an Independence Day parade in 2022 injured her and left one of her twin boys paral...
Jul 05, 2024 FILE - Law enforcement search after a mass shooting at the Highland Park Fourth of July parade in downtown Highland Park, Ill., a Chicago suburb, July 4, 2022. Keely Roberts, the mother of the youngest victims of the Fourth of July parade shooting, which left one of her twin sons — now 10 — paralyzed from the waist down, will talk to the media Wednesday, July 3, 2024, about what it means to survive the horror two years later. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)
Dean's List | President's List | Radiology
Kaskaskia College announces 2024 Spring Dean's List CENTRALIA, IL - Congratulations to the full- and part-time students on the Kaskaskia College Dean's List for the spring 2024 semester. This list inc...
Jul 05, 2024
Odin man receives minor injuries in motorcycle crash in Omega
A 24-year-old Odin man received apparent minor injuries in a motorcycle crash on the Omega Road near the Omega General Store late Tuesday afternoon. Marion County Sheriff's Deputies say Cameron Hodge ...
Jul 03, 2024
Global War on Terror Wall of Remembrance in Flora for 4th of July
The Global War on Terror Wall of Remembrance will be on display in Charlie Brown Park in Flora for the Fourth of July. After spending the night in Kinmundy, the wall led by police, fire, ambulance, Fr...
Jul 03, 2024 The full length of the Global War on Terror - Wall of Remembrance. Photo provided.
Major improvements coming to Forbes State Park
Major improvements are coming to Forbes State Park over the next two years. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources and the Illinois Department of Transportation have budgeted $8.45-million to re...
Jul 03, 2024
Police Beat for Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024
Marion County Sheriff's Deputies arrested 34-year-old Joshua Benjamin on an Illinois Department of Corrections warrant. Benjamin told jail officials he was homeless. Salem Police arrested 27-year-old ...
Jul 03, 2024
Pritzker signs election bill to increase party power in primary elections
Measures also include reforms to Electoral College electors and voter registration data By ANDREW ADAMS Capitol News Illinois aadams@capitolnewsillinois.com Changes to primary election fundraising, th...
Jul 03, 2024 Marion County Clerk Steve Fox with one of the Marion County voting machines. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
13th Annual Greater Centralia Area Veterans Parade set for one Thursday afternoon; see parade line-up
The 13th Annual Greater Centralia Area Veterans Parade is set to step off at one Thursday afternoon. Butch Mathus who sets up the parade each year says it will follow the same route as past years from...
Jul 03, 2024 Members of the Centralia Elks present the large US Flag in front of the reviewing stand of the 2021 Centralia 4th of July parade. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Fire causes minor damage to rural Shattuc home
Sandoval Firemen report minor damage in a fire at the Beverly Pingsterhaus home on Hintz Road in rural Shattuc early Tuesday morning. Fire Chief Chad Parson says upon arrival the owner had most of the...
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