Category Archives: Local News
Ten to seek Marion County Fair Queen title this year, 18 seeking Junior Miss title
The field of contestants is set for the 2024 Marion County Fair and Junior Miss contestants. The ten seeking the Miss Marion County title are Bailey Maas, Gabriella Curtner, Madelyn Dailey, and Celest...
Jun 19, 2024 FAIR QUEEN CONTESTANTS.
Pictured in order of contestant number is #1 Bailey Maas, #2 Gabriella Curtner, # 3 Abigail Evans, #4 Madelyn Dailey,
#5 Preslee Harris, #6 Katelyn Beigeleisen, #7 Mariah Williams, #8 Celeste Marshall, #9 Ella Douglas, and #10 Lydia Donoho. Also pictured is 2023 Marion County Fair Queen Kaitlyn Banning
St. Mary's Hospital's Jeanne Collier receives DAISY Lifetime Achievement Award
Jeanne Collier, RN, Regional Manager of Palliative Care and Manager of Medical/Surgical Units at SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Centralia, was recently honored with the DAISY Lifetime Achievement Aw...
Jun 19, 2024 Jeanne Collier with her Lifetime Achievement Award.
IDPH Warns Illinoisans to Protect Themselves from Dangerous Heat
With heat index forecasts approaching 100 degrees across the state in the coming days, the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) is warning Illinoisans to take preventive actions to avoid heat-r...
Jun 19, 2024
12-year-old rural Louisville boy killed in side-by-side accident
A 12-year-old rural Louisville boy has died from injuries sustained in a Friday night side-by-side accident in the rural Sailor Springs area. The boy is identified as Caide Weidner. State Police say h...
Jun 19, 2024
Mt Vernon Police make arrest in Tuesday shooting, seeking second person
Mt. Vernon Police have arrested one person and are looking for a second in connection with a shooting Tuesday afternoon in an alley in the 2000 block of Logan Street. The adult male victim was taken t...
Jun 19, 2024
Salem Police make arrest in aggravated assault and criminal damage case
Salem Police have made an arrest for aggravated assault and criminal damage to property in connection with an incident that occurred in the Salem Walmart parking lot on May 11th. Police say Brian Need...
Jun 19, 2024
Police Beat for Wednesday, June 19th, 2024
A 44-year-old Centralia man has been arrested by Marion County Sheriff's Deputies on a felony failure to appear warrant on pending charges of aggravated battery to a pregnant person, home invasion and...
Jun 19, 2024
Sandoval Village Board approves TIF disbursement, deals with late audit
The Sandoval Village Board has authorized a $38,805 payment from its tax increment financing district to reimburse for part of the renovation costs to convert the old Bill's Cafe on Main Street into a...
Jun 19, 2024 Sandoval Village Board (file photo)
Collecting sex-crazed zombie cicadas on speed: Scientists track a bug-controlling super-sized fungus
By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer LISLE, Illinois (AP) - With their bulging red eyes and their alien-like mating sound, periodical cicadas can seem scary and weird enough. But some of them really a...
Jun 19, 2024 West Virginia University mycology professor Matt Kasson and his son Oliver Kasson, 9, confirm a periodical cicada infected with the Massospora cicadina fungus is still alive immediately before field processing at Morton Arboretum on Thursday, June 6, 2024, in Lisle, Ill. Kasson is tracking the fungus, the only one on Earth that makes amphetamine. It takes control over the cicada, makes them hypersexual, looking to spread the parasite as a sexually transmitted disease. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Major road improvements planned on US 51 in northern Marion County
The Illinois Department of Transportation will begin work on a $14.6-million dollar resurfacing and bridge reconstruction program on US 51 in northern Marion County in the state's new fiscal year that...
Jun 19, 2024
