Category Archives: Local News
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
Vernon man sentenced to 10 years in prison after drug court probation revoked
A 34-year-old Vernon man who has been arrested for residential burglary, possession of 5 to 15 grams of meth, and receiving stolen property since being placed on Marion County Drug Court has now been ...
Nov 16, 2023
Salem Community High grad returns home to take top position at SSM Health
SSM Health in Illinois has announced Salem Community High School graduate Dr. Jayanthi Suppiah has returned to the area to become Regional Chief Medical Officer and Medical Group President for the Sou...
Nov 16, 2023 Dr JJayanthi Suppiah
Small Marion County communities will have to pay to hold dogs at Centralia Animal Pound
Marion County Animal Control Officer Ken Ferguson will no longer be able to take dogs picked up in villages and cities to the Centralia Animal Pound. Representatives of the Marion County Board learned...
Nov 15, 2023
Odin loses power for two hours when combine brings down power pole and line
Odin residents lost power for about two hours late Wednesday morning and early afternoon after a combine hit a low-hanging cable line on Perkins Street in Odin. Odin Fire Protection District Chief Gre...
Nov 15, 2023
Hoffman Fire Protection District gets $120,000 revolving loan from state
The Hoffman Fire Protection District has been awarded a $120,000 revolving low-interest loan to help purchase a new fire truck. They are one of 19 communities to share in $ 7.2 million in no-interest ...
Nov 15, 2023
Police Beat for Wednesday, November 15th, 2023
A 29-year-old homeless Sandoval man is in the Marion County Jail for alleged fleeing and eluding police, domestic battery, and criminal damage to property. Sandoval Police Chief Joe Lyons said Joey Ev...
Nov 15, 2023
Father of July 4th parade shooting suspect turns himself in to begin jail sentence
By CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press/Report for America CHICAGO (AP) - The father of the suspect in a deadly Fourth of July parade shooting in suburban Chicago turned himself in Wednesday to begin a 60-d...
Nov 15, 2023 This image provided by the Lake County Sheriff's Office in Waukegan, Ill., shows Robert Crimo Jr., on Friday, Dec. 16, 2022, after turning himself in. Crimo Jr.,, the father of an Illinois man charged with killing seven people in a mass shooting at a July 4 parade in a Chicago suburb has been charged with seven felony counts of reckless conduct, prosecutors announced Friday. (Lake County Sheriff's Office via AP)
