Category Archives: Local News
Kaskaskia College gets $895,213 grant to continue Workforce Equity Initiative
Kaskaskia College Vice President of Student Services Amy Zanton has announced the college has been approved for an $895,213 grant to continue the Workforce Equity Initiative for a fifth year. The anno...
Jul 12, 2024 Pictured are students who completed certificates through the Workforce Equity Initiative program during past year at Kaskaskia College. Photo by Steven Stilt.
Kaskaskia College gets approval to offer new agriculture degree
Kaskaskia College officials have announced Illinois Community College Board approval to offer a third agriculture degree. College President George Evans says the new ag degree is technology heavy. "GP...
Jul 12, 2024 Kaskaskia College President George Evans provides an update on college activities at the Salem Education Center Community Engagement Meeting on Thursday. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum voted among top 10 percent of attractions worldwide
The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield has been recognized with a Travelers' Choice award from Tripadvisor because of its thousands of 5-star reviews from visitors. Tripadv...
Jul 11, 2024
Two enter guilty pleas in Marion County Court
Two people pleaded guilty in Marion County Court on Wednesday. 23-year-old Fredi Estebar-Valencia of South Sycamore in Centralia was sentenced to 30 months probation and 300 hours of public service wo...
Jul 11, 2024 File photo: Marion County Courthouse.
Illinois celebrates $1 Billion in cannabis retail sales so far in 2024
Governor JB Pritzker has announced that Illinois has reached $1 billion in cannabis retail sales for the year on July 1st. That includes $850 million in adult use cannabis sales and almost $150 millio...
Jul 11, 2024 manuel m. v. / CC
2 teen girls are killed when their UTV collides with a grain hauler in south-central Illinois
SHELBY COUNTY, Ill. (AP) - Two teen girls were killed and another is fighting for her life when their utility terrain vehicle crashed into a grain hauler in south-central Illinois. The crash happened ...
Jul 11, 2024
Menard prison staff picket, citing unsafe working conditions
Amid worker shortage, union says facility has seen a surge in violence By MOLLY PARKER Capitol News Illinois mparker@capitolnewsillinois.com Hundreds of Menard Correctional Center employees and their ...
Jul 11, 2024 Cutline: From right to left, Falynne Muzzy, a correctional lieutenant, and Hursel King, a correctional sergeant, both employed at Menard Correctional Center, and Michael Knope, a correctional sergeant at Pinckneyville Correctional Center, joined hundreds of other prison workers and their supporters in Chester on Monday to rally against unsafe working conditions. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Molly Parker)
Pritzker signs health insurance reform measures
New law bans practices aimed at lowering insurance payouts By PETER HANCOCK Capitol News Illinois phancock@capitolnewsillinois.com SPRINGFIELD - Gov. JB Pritzker signed legislation Wednesday that puts...
Jul 11, 2024 Gov. JB Pritzker holds up a pair of bills that were part of the Healthcare
Protection Act, which he signed into law Wednesday at Rush University Medical Center
in Chicago. Pritzker first outlined the insurance changes in his State of the State
address in February. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Dilpreet Raju)
Heavy rains in early July cause some concerns to area farmers
After a lengthy delay in spring planting due to wet weather, rains that have totaled 5 and a half inches across most of Marion County in the first nine days of July are causing additional problems for...
Jul 11, 2024 Tom Bower / CC
Police Beat for Thursday, July 11th, 2024
Centralia Police have arrested 19-year-old Alana Schmidt of Richview Road in Mt. Vernon for aggravated battery to a security guard. She allegedly became involved in an altercation with a security guar...
Jul 11, 2024
