Category Archives: Local News

Centralia Police Department Sergeant Gary Denton has retired. Centralia Police say Denton joined the department in 2002 and served as a Patrol Officer, Community Police Officer, and School Resource Of...

Centralia Police have arrested a 25-year-old Centralia man on two counts of possession of a controlled substance and possession of a narcotic instrument. Zachariah Pigg of County Highway 18 was taken ...

Governor JB Priztker has signed a handful of new state laws that will help soldiers, veterans and their families. One of the laws makes it easier for victims of military sexual assault to get a civil ...

Bond has been set at $25,000 for a 25-year-old Centralia man who is accused of entering a Centralia home without permission on July 12th. Joshua Scott was formally charged in Marion County Court Thurs...

A final call is going out for artists who would like to participate in Salem's first Sidewalk Chalk Art Contest next Saturday, August 12th. One of the organizers is Michelle Barbee who hopes to make t...

A 33-year-old Kinmundy woman was arrested on multiple charges following an early Thursday evening traffic crash and two later altercations with Salem Police. Vanessa Wooden of Freemont Street is being...

Both drivers were treated on the scene but refused hospital treatment following a crash late Thursday morning on US 50 near the Iuka-Omega Road intersection. Initial reports from the Marion County She...

The Marion County Fair has a new Junior Miss. Aubri Landreth of Patoka won the title over the other 14 girls in the competition. "I screamed really loud because I know my grandmother would be really p...

EFFINGHAM, Ill. (AP) - A 5-year-old southern Illinois girl has died after a starting gate being hauled by a car prior to a harness race struck her while she was sitting in the grandstand at a county f...

Some isolated locations in South Central Illinois recorded nine or more inches of rain from the heavy thunderstorms that rolled through late Wednesday night and early Thursday morning. The largest rai...