Category Archives: Local News
Maddox Robb wins Senior Master Showmanship Award
17-year-old Maddox Robb of Kinmundy is the winner of the Marion County 4H Senior Master Showmanship Award. The winner is judged best overall in handling beef, swine and sheep. Robb says he's been show...
Jul 29, 2024 Senior Master Showmanship winner Maddox Robb with Reserve Hallie Borcherding and other contestants Kinlee Thompson, Chase Thompson, and Jonathan Wilkins as well as Fair Queen Kaitlyn Banning and Jr. Miss Aubri Landreth. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
1st installment of Marion County Property Tax Bills is due Tuesday
Marion County Treasurer Gary Purcell is reminding everyone the first installment of the 2023 Payable 2024 Marion County property taxes are due on Tuesday, July 30th. Purcell reports there are a number...
Jul 29, 2024
Fire destroys vacant home in Wamac
Fire destroyed a vacant home in Wamac Sunday morning. Centralia Fire Protection District Chief Ross Boshera says flames were showing from all sides of the home at 101 South Wall Street upon their arri...
Jul 28, 2024 A vacant mobile home at 101 South Wall in Wamac is destroyed by fire Sunday morning. Photo by Tim Ferguson.
Mobile home damaged by fire in rural Ina
A fire at a mobile home in rural Ina on Sunday morning was confined to one bedroom and its contents. The fire was at the Luke Tennant residence in the 13,000 block of East Wheaton Road. Jefferson Fire...
Jul 28, 2024 liz west / CC
Kids Day at the Marion County Fair celebrates 20th Year Monday
Kids Day at the Marion County Fair is Monday. This is the 20th year for the program that offers free activities to kids who come to the fairgrounds between nine am and two pm. One of the organizers is...
Jul 28, 2024 Earlier Kids Day at the Marion County Fair.
State Police report more details on Thursday afternoon crash on Route 37 south of Salem
State Police have released the names of those involved in a two pickup truck crash on Route 37 at the Church Road intersection south of Salem Thursday afternoon. State Police report the driver of the ...
Jul 27, 2024
Centralia man faces five charges after woman falls from top of his car
A 54-year-old Centralia man has been charged in Marion County Court with five offenses following a Thursday evening incident where a 21-year-old Centralia woman fell off the top of his car following a...
Jul 27, 2024
Motorcyclist involved in chase with Kinmundy Police gets away
Kinmundy Police report a motorcyclist they were trying to stop late Friday afternoon fled instead and led them on a lengthy chase around the Kinmundy and Alma area. The motorcycle eventually was laid ...
Jul 27, 2024 telas1020@gmail.com / Depositphotos.com
Police Beat for Saturday, July 27th, 2024
Three people were taken to the Marion County Jail on Friday on no bond failure to appear warrants. 31-year-old Zachary Moore of South Locust in Centralia was arrested by Centralia Police on a felony w...
Jul 27, 2024
Autopsy confirms Sonya Massey died from gunshot wound to head, as attorney calls shooting senseless
By JOHN O'CONNOR and RICK CALLAHAN Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Autopsy findings released Friday on Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman fatally shot in her Illinois home by a now-fire...
Jul 27, 2024 Ben Crump, the civil rights attorney representing the family of Sonya Massey, stands next to a diagram from the slain woman's autopsy on Friday, June 26, 2024, in Springfield, Ill., and gestures to show the downward angle in which Sangamon County Sheriff's Deputy Sean Grayson shot Massey in the face early on July 6. Massey had called 911 with suspicions of a prowler near her Springfield home. Grayson has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and other charges. (AP Photo/John O'Connor)
