Category Archives: Local News
Salem Mayor unveils SalemEclipse.com
Salem Mayor Nic Farley has unveiled a website designed as a one-stop website for everything about the April 8th total eclipse. The mayor used his IT and website-building skills to create SalemEclipse....
Feb 21, 2024 Maps page of Salem's new eclipse website.
Ahead of Pritzker's budget address, pressures that mounted last year intensify
Noncitizen health care costs derailed bipartisan budget hopes in Senate last year BY JERRY NOWICKI Capitol News Illinois jnowicki@capitolnewsillinois.com Republicans in the Illinois Senate indicated T...
Feb 21, 2024 Senate Minority Leader John Curran (center) appears with fellow GOP Sens. Chapin Rose (left) and Tom Bennett (right) at a Statehouse news conference on Tuesday. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Odin man sentenced to three years in prison for failure to register as sex offender
A 30-year-old Odin man has been sentenced to three years in prison for failure to register as a sex offender with a prior conviction. Roy Cochran of Folsom Street was charged with failure to register ...
Feb 21, 2024
Mt. Vernon man allegedly shot trying to forcibly enter home arrested for felony trespassing
Mt. Vernon Police and the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department reports a 44-year-old Mt. Vernon man has been arrested for felony criminal trespassing after allegedly being shot while trying to forcib...
Feb 21, 2024
SSM Health St. Mary's and Good Samaritan Hospitals receive 'Gold Seal of Approval'
SSM Health St Mary's Hospital in Centralia and Good Samaritan Hospital in Mt. Vernon have earned the Joint Commission's Gold Seal of Approval for Hospital Accreditation. The Gold Seal of Approval is a...
Feb 20, 2024 Top: St. Mary's Hospital; Bottom: Good Samaritan Hospital.
Pritzker to mull tightening fiscal landscape in budget address this week
Governor's budget office projects major surplus to give way to deficit without action By JERRY NOWICKI Capitol News Illinois jnowicki@capitolnewsillinois.com Gov. JB Pritzker will give his sixth state...
Feb 20, 2024 Gov. JB Pritzker is pictured during a previous State of the State address in the Illinois House
chamber. He’ll give his 2024 address – his sixth as governor – on Wednesday, Feb. 21. (Capitol News
Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
2022 US Census of Agriculture data released, number of Marion County farms drops by more than 12-percent
The 2022 US Census of Agriculture shows a more than 12 percent decline in the number of Marion County farms in the past five years. The new Census shows 881 farms in Marion County totaling 246,687 acr...
Feb 20, 2024 Tom Bower / CC
Ameren adds Mobile Command Center trailers to handle severe weather
If severe weather hits and results in major power outages, you may see a new piece of equipment come to town in the aftermath. Ameren has added two specially designed Mobile Command Center trailers to...
Feb 20, 2024 Ameren mobile command center.
Salem City Council Tuesday night to consider repairs to city hall from water damage
The Salem City Council will consider three bids at Tuesday night's meeting to repair damage from a small portion of the city hall roof that collapsed last month from water damage. Interim City Manager...
Feb 20, 2024
Police Beat for Tuesday, February 20th, 2024
A 30-year-old Marion man has been arrested by Marion County Sheriff's Deputies on two outstanding no bond Williamson County warrants. Clayton Holmes is being held in the Marion County Jail on the felo...
Feb 20, 2024
