Category Archives: Local News
Centralia woman charged with January hatchet attack on another woman
A 34-year-old Centralia woman has been formally charged in Marion County Court with aggravated battery and obstructing identification following a January incident where she allegedly hit another woman...
Mar 12, 2024
Centralia City Council approves new management program for police evidence
The Centralia City Council Monday night approved a new evidence management software and equipment program for the police department. The program from Porter Lee Corporation will cost $10,266. City Man...
Mar 12, 2024 Centralia City Manager Kory Smith.
Bill that threatens jobs at sheltered workshops moving through state house
State Representative Charlie Meier is leading a charge to oppose legislation that would require sheltered workshops like the Kaskaskia Workshop to pay minimum wage to their clients with intellectual a...
Mar 11, 2024 News conferences from left to right: State Sen. Chapin Rose (R-Mahomet), State Rep. CD Davidsmeyer (R-Murrayville), State Rep. Charlie Meier, State Rep. Mike Coffey (R-Springfield), State Senator Chapin Rose (R-Mahomet, Doug McDonald, CEO of Sparc, a 14c workshop located in Springfield and including three of their clients.
Graphic Packaging International agrees to $997,000 settlement over violation of State's Biometric Information Privacy Act at Centralia plant
Graphic Packaging International has agreed to pay more than $997,000 as part of a Class Action federal lawsuit to resolve claims it violated Illinois's Biometric Information Privacy Act at its Central...
Mar 11, 2024
Police Beat for Monday, March 11th, 2024
A 30-year-old Iuka man has been arrested on an outstanding Fayette County small claims warrant. Aaron Williams of South Avenue was released after posting $200 bond.
Mar 11, 2024
Salem Firemen say burnouts and flue fire cause of two fire calls Sunday night
The Salem Fire Protection District received two calls within seven minutes of each other Sunday night. Fortunately, a report of a house fire was confined to a flue and a restaurant fire was actually a...
Mar 11, 2024
Centralia City Council Monday night to consider more demolitions and sale of surplus property
The Centralia City Council Monday night will be asked to move forward on demolition of 15 additional homes the city intends to declare as derelict structures to reduce blight in the impacted neighborh...
Mar 11, 2024
Four hurt in head on crash in Clinton County
Four people were injured when a car and pickup truck collided head on at the intersection of two rural roads in Clinton County Friday afternoon. The crash occurred at the intersection of Boulder and C...
Mar 10, 2024
Police Beat for Sunday, March 10th, 2024
A 25-year-old Sandoval man has been arrested by Sandoval Police for alleged domestic battery. Kobe Light of Mulberry Street was taken to the Marion County Jail to await a decision on formal charges.
Mar 10, 2024
How do animals react during a total solar eclipse? Scientists plan to find out in April
By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - When a total solar eclipse transforms day into night, will tortoises start acting romantic? Will giraffes gallop? Will apes sing odd notes? Rese...
Mar 10, 2024 A gorilla family is observed by people visiting the Fort Worth Zoo in Fort Worth, Texas, Friday, Feb. 23, 2024. Researchers will be standing by to observe how animals’ routines at the zoo are disrupted when skies dim on April 8. They previously detected other strange animal behaviors in 2017 at a South Carolina zoo that was in the path of total darkness. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
