Category Archives: Local News
New member of Marion County Health Board willing to sign orders to keep health department services in place
Marion County Health Department Administrator Melissa Mallow is breathing a sigh of relief. She told WJBD-WSIQ that a newly appointed member of the health board has agreed to become the department's m...
Nov 17, 2023 Marion County Health Department Administrator Melissa Mallow (center) explains the role of the health department at an earlier board meeting. Looking on is County Clerk Steve Fox (left) and Health Board member Keith Kessler (right). Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Advocates hail regulatory 'earthquake' as state slashes requested gas rate increases from Ameren and others
Company profits cut, low-income customers set to receive new discounts By ANDREW ADAMS Capitol News Illinois aadams@capitolnewsillinois.com CHICAGO - Regulators at the Illinois Commerce Commission on ...
Nov 16, 2023 PROTEST: Pastor and environmental activist Veronica Johnson speaks to protestors at an Oct. 19 rally to pressure the Illinois Commerce Commission into rejecting utilities’ requested gas rate increases. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
All Centralia City Grade Schools building move to 'commendable' designation
By Austin Williams The Centralia City School Board discussed several committee reports at its meeting Tuesday night, along with a curriculum report that shows all buildings in the district receiving a...
Nov 16, 2023 Blake Griffin is sworn in to rejoin the Centralia City Grade School Board by Board President Ron Johnson. Photo by Austin Williams.
South Central School Board to keep tax levy increase under 4.99-percent
The South Central School Board has decided to keep any tax levy increase under 4.99 percent avoiding a Truth in Taxation hearing. Superintendent Kerry Herdes says because of the large increase in asse...
Nov 16, 2023
Police Beat for Thursday, November 16th, 2023
Centralia Police arrested 61-year-old Robert Jones of South Perrine in Centralia for aggravated domestic battery. He was taken to the Marion County Jail. A 35-year-old homeless Centralia man was arres...
Nov 16, 2023
State Supreme Court weighs constitutionality of lifetime restrictions on child sex offenders
Decades after conviction, man says limits on where he can live serve no valid purpose By PETER HANCOCK Capitol News Illinois phancock@capitolnewsillinois.com SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois Supreme Court i...
Nov 16, 2023 The Illinois Supreme Court building is pictured in Springfield. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Pritzker designates additional $160M for migrant response as winter approaches
New spending focused on building Chicago's shelter capacity, getting migrants to permanent housing By HANNAH MEISEL & JERRY NOWICKI Capitol News Illinois news@capitolnewsillinois.com CHICAGO - As ...
Nov 16, 2023
Chicago commuter train crashes into rail equipment, nearly 40 injured, some seriously
CHICAGO (AP) - A Chicago commuter train collided with rail equipment Thursday morning, injuring nearly 40 people, some of them critically, fire officials said. The Chicago Transit Authority train cras...
Nov 16, 2023 Aaron Volkening / CC
Thousands of Starbucks workers go on a one-day strike on one of the chain's busiest days of year
By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Workers at more than 200 U.S. Starbucks locations walked off the job Thursday in what organizers said was the largest strike yet in the 2-year-old ...
Nov 16, 2023 A coalition of unions and supporters join Starbucks workers at a rally outside a midtown Manhattan Starbucks coffee store calling for a "fair schedules and wages," Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
Two Salem men plead guilty to additional burglaries
Two Salem men who face burglary charges in Marion and other counties have been sentenced to prison time for a burglary last September to a semi-truck belonging to 618 Motorsports in Nashville. 42-year...
Nov 16, 2023 Eric DeWitt
