Category Archives: Local News
Marion County unemployment jumps in December
Unemployment was up four-tenths of a percent to 4.7 percent in Marion County from November to December. The rate is also up eight-tenths of a percent from a year ago. The December unemployment numbers...
Jan 26, 2024 Innov8social / CC
Illinois Department of Revenue and IRS to begin accepting returns next week
The Illinois Department of Revenue will begin processing 2023 tax returns next week, coinciding with the federal Internal Revenue Service beginning its tax filing season. "We encourage taxpayers to fi...
Jan 26, 2024
Centralia teen sentenced to five years in prison for Laura Leake Park shooting
An 18-year-old Centralia man has been sentenced to five years in prison in connection with a shooting last April in Laura Leake Park that sent two to St. Louis Hospitals for treatment of injuries. Dav...
Jan 26, 2024 Davion Meredith (Marion County Jail)
New estimate shows rural Americans and men are more likely to suffer from hearing loss
By DEVI SHASTRI AP Health Writer MILWAUKEE (AP) - A new estimate shows hearing loss affects approximately 37.9 million Americans and is more common in rural areas than urban ones and in men than women...
Jan 25, 2024 FILE - Passengers board a train at Union Square subway station, Jan. 13, 2024, in New York. A new estimate Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024, shows hearing loss affects approximately 37.9 million Americans and is more common in rural areas than urban ones and in men than women. (AP Photo/Peter K. Afriyie, File)
Mt. Vernon and Irvington get low-interest loans for water system improvements
Both the City of Mt. Vernon and the Village of Irvington are getting water infrastructure loans from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. Of the total $ 66 million investment throughout the s...
Jan 25, 2024
Police Beat for Thursday, January 25th, 2024
Centralia Police made two arrests on Wednesday for alleged aggravated domestic battery. 26-year-old Raymond Warren and 37-year-old Samuel Weibley of the same South Sycamore Street address in Centralia...
Jan 25, 2024
Sandoval man charged with drug offenses
A 34-year-old Sandoval man has been charged in Marion County Court with two meth related charges following an earlier arrest by Central City Police. Michael Olson Junior of Old US 51 has been given a ...
Jan 25, 2024 Blogtrepreneur / CC
Centralia man hurt in rural Iuka crash
A 57-year-old Centralia man was injured in a single vehicle crash Wednesday afternoon on the Iuka Road south of Calvert Road. The Marion County Sheriff's Department reports Gary Albert of Wabash Avenu...
Jan 25, 2024
Venedy woman killed in Washington County crash
Washington County Coroner Mark Styninger says a 63-year-old Venedy woman was killed in a rear-end crash on Illinois Route 127 at Holzhauer Auto Mall Drive in Nashville. Denise Dyck was pronounced dead...
Jan 24, 2024 Jo Naylor / CC
17-year-old St. Peter man charged as adult with 1st degree murder of 14-year-old Salem boy
A 17-year-old St. Peter boy has been charged as an adult in Fayette County with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, and aggravated discharge of a firearm in connection with the Saturda...
Jan 24, 2024 DPP Law / CC
