Category Archives: Local News
With influx of state and federal funding, Illinois looks to add enough chargers to support 1 million EVs
State EV coordinator says 30,000 more charging ports needed to reach energy goals By COLE LONGCOR Capitol News Illinois clongcor@capitolnewsillinois.com Illinois' electric vehicle charging infrastruct...
Feb 19, 2024 Two electric vehicles are pictured at a charging station in Springfield. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Campbell)
Pritzker commits another $182 million to migrant response, details to come this week
Despite funding from state and county, roughly $70 million gap remains By ANDREW ADAMS Capitol News Illinois aadams@capitolnewsillinois.com CHICAGO - The state and Cook County announced last week a ro...
Feb 19, 2024 Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson presides over a Chicago City Council meeting on
Thursday. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Four inducted into Centralia Community Youth Center Wall of Honor
There were four inductees into the Centralia Community Youth Center Wall of Honor over the weekend. The guest speaker was the Reverend Ron Johnson who center his comments around the theme of the progr...
Feb 19, 2024 Wall of Honor inductees Traci and Tom Macz, Herb Williams, Shawn Monken-Hartmann representing her brother Wes and Bette Simmons-Young. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Missoula Children's Theater being expanded to two sessions this year; registration is open
Due to the success and sellout of the Missoula Children's Theater, it will be expanded to two sessions this summer at the Salem Community Theatre. The program will be overseen again by Kendra Herman w...
Feb 19, 2024 A practice session for those attending the Missoula Theatre camp last year at the Salem Community Theatre. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Police Beat for Monday, February 19th, 2024
A 70-year-old Centralia woman has been arrested on a no-bond Marion County warrant on a pending possession of methamphetamine case. Laura Mitchell of North Beech was taken to the Marion County Jail to...
Feb 19, 2024
Monday is President's Day Holiday
Monday is the President's Day Holiday. Most local, state, and federal government offices are closed. That includes all area courthouses, as well as Salem and Centralia City Halls. However, garbage col...
Feb 18, 2024 John Bakator / Unsplash
Jefferson and Wayne County return to medium hospitalization level for COVID-19
There were six new hospitalizations for COVID-19 in Jefferson and Wayne Counties in the last reporting week putting the two counties at the medium level for COVID-19 hospitalization. The rest of South...
Feb 18, 2024
Marion County Sheriff's Deputy make arrest in garage burglary and car theft
Marion County Sheriff Kevin Cripps says with the help of the public they were able to identify and later arrest a 22-year-old St. Peter man in connection with a garage burglary and car theft from a ho...
Feb 18, 2024
Police Beat for Sunday, February 18th, 2024
Centralia Police have arrested a 27-year-old Centralia man for alleged domestic battery and interfering with the reporting of domestic violence. Jarrod Jolliff of South Hickory was taken to the Marion...
Feb 18, 2024
Southern Illinois home of Paul Powell, the 'Shoebox Scandal' politician, could soon be sold
By JOHN O'CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Paul Powell, the southern Illinois political powerhouse who died and left behind $800,000 in cash in the notorious "Shoebox Scandal," used...
Feb 18, 2024 FILE - A sign marks he Paul Powell Home and Museum, Oct. 8, 2020 photo in Vienna, Ill. For more than half a century, a Powell-established $250,000 trust sustained his legacy, for better or worse. But the account that maintained his birthplace as a museum will soon run dry. (AP Photo/John O'Connor, File)
