Category Archives: Local News
Nascote Industries employee revisits plant where fellow employees saved his life
A Nascote Industries employee who experienced a life-threatening medical event while on the job last May is back on his feet again. Mike Borowiak, an employee of Nascote Industries for over twenty-fou...
Jun 07, 2024 Nascote Industries employees (L to R): Adam Brammeier, Mike Borowiak, Scott Smith, and Jeff Stern.
Police Beat for Friday, June 7th, 2024
Centralia Police have arrested a 60-year-old Centralia man on drug charges. Kenneth Thornton of South Elm was taken to the Marion County Jail on two counts of manufacture or delivery of between 1 and ...
Jun 07, 2024
One taken to hospital following crash at West Main and I-57
One person was taken to the hospital following a two-vehicle rear end collision on West Main Street at the southbound off ramp to I-57. Salem Police say a car driven by 84-year-old Shirley Parkinson o...
Jun 07, 2024
One receives hospital treatment following East Main Street crash in Salem
Salem Police say a rear end collision in the 1500 block of East Main Street Thursday afternoon sent one of the drivers to the hospital for treatment. Police say a delivery van driven by 26-year-old Dy...
Jun 07, 2024
Centralia gets $883,702 for raw water line project
The City of Centralia has received an $883,702 Community Development Grant from the state of Illinois to help pay for some of the cost of the city's new raw waterline to Carlyle Lake. City Manager Kor...
Jun 07, 2024
Stalled bills: 'Dignity in Pay Act,' Prisoner Review Board changes fail to move
While more than 460 measures passed, several highly publicized bills stalled By ALEX ABBEDUTO, COLE LONGCOR & DILPREET RAJU Capitol News Illinois news@capitolnewsillinois.com A bill eliminating th...
Jun 07, 2024 Construction vehicles are pictured outside of the Illinois State Capitol last month. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
'Home Alone' house being sold. Swinging paint cans not included
WINNETKA, Ill. (AP) - The home of Kevin McCallister's hijinks is changing hands. And if the new owner wants to watch "Home Alone," there's a movie theater inside, one of many upgrades since the suburb...
Jun 07, 2024 FILE - This brick house in Winnetka, Ill., seen Friday, May 6, 2011, was featured in the 1990 movie "Home Alone". The home of Kevin McCallister's hijinks is changing hands. And if the new owner wants to watch "Home Alone," there's a movie theater inside, one of many upgrades since the suburban Chicago property was renovated and expanded in 2018. Sale of the house, portrayed in the film, is underway, only days after being listed for $5.25 million. (AP Photo/ Nam Y. Huh File)
SSM Health acquires new radiology equipment
SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital has acquired an advanced computed tomography (CT) scanner to enhance cardiology, emergency medicine, and oncology clinical capabilities. This scanning device generat...
Jun 06, 2024
Planned power outage planned in part of Salem early Friday morning
Ameren Illinois has announced a planned electrical outage in the area of South College and West Lake Street in Salem early Friday morning. About 170 customers will be without power in the area of Sout...
Jun 06, 2024
Five arrested Wednesday across Marion County on no bond warrants
Five people were taken to the Marion County Jail on Wednesday on no bond failure to appear in court warrants. 35-year-old Colleen Stokes of South Locust in Centralia was arrested by Centralia Police o...
Jun 06, 2024
