Category Archives: Local News
Jefferson and Wayne County return to medium hospitalization level for COVID-19
There were six new hospitalizations for COVID-19 in Jefferson and Wayne Counties in the last reporting week putting the two counties at the medium level for COVID-19 hospitalization. The rest of South...
Feb 18, 2024
Marion County Sheriff's Deputy make arrest in garage burglary and car theft
Marion County Sheriff Kevin Cripps says with the help of the public they were able to identify and later arrest a 22-year-old St. Peter man in connection with a garage burglary and car theft from a ho...
Feb 18, 2024
Police Beat for Sunday, February 18th, 2024
Centralia Police have arrested a 27-year-old Centralia man for alleged domestic battery and interfering with the reporting of domestic violence. Jarrod Jolliff of South Hickory was taken to the Marion...
Feb 18, 2024
Southern Illinois home of Paul Powell, the 'Shoebox Scandal' politician, could soon be sold
By JOHN O'CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Paul Powell, the southern Illinois political powerhouse who died and left behind $800,000 in cash in the notorious "Shoebox Scandal," used...
Feb 18, 2024 FILE - A sign marks he Paul Powell Home and Museum, Oct. 8, 2020 photo in Vienna, Ill. For more than half a century, a Powell-established $250,000 trust sustained his legacy, for better or worse. But the account that maintained his birthplace as a museum will soon run dry. (AP Photo/John O'Connor, File)
State governments looking to protect health-related data as it's used in abortion battle
Some state governments and federal regulators were already moving to keep individuals' reproductive health information private when a U.S. senator's report last week offered a new jolt, describing how...
Feb 18, 2024 FILE - Supporters of Issue 1, the Right to Reproductive Freedom amendment, attend a rally in Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 8, 2023. Some state governments and a federal agency are moving to block companies from selling geolocation data that shows who's been to abortion providers, among other places. (AP Photo/Joe Maiorana, File)
5-year-old migrant boy who got sick at a temporary Chicago shelter died from sepsis, autopsy shows
CHICAGO (AP) - The cause of death for a 5-year-old Venezuelan boy who died in December after becoming ill at a temporary shelter for migrants in Chicago was sepsis and a bacterial infection that cause...
Feb 18, 2024 Taymaz Valley / CC
Salem Girls Bowling Team 10th in State
The Salem Girls Bowling Team took tenth place in State on Saturday in Rockford. The Salem girls totaled 11,164 points in the state championship series, 1,059 behind state champion Jolliet West. Salem'...
Feb 18, 2024 Salem Girls Bowling Team at State Tournament Saturday morning. (Coach Steve Ludwig Facebook page)
Heavy snow hits South Central Illinois Friday afternoon, leaving 4 inches on the ground in Salem and 3.3 in Centralia
A winter storm that crossed South Central Illinois officially left four inches of snow on the ground in Salem and 3.3 inches in Centralia. As temperatures dropped below freezing by early afternoon, po...
Feb 17, 2024 US 50 in front of the Richard Sinclair State Farm office during the height of the heavy snow Friday afternoon. Photo by Debby Carter.
South Central Transit getting 14 new busses valued at $1.7 million
The Illinois Department of Transportation has announced South Central Transit will be receiving 14 new paratransit vehicles valued at $1,732,000. The Managing Director of South Central Transit Sara No...
Feb 17, 2024
Church burglary under investigation in Junction City
An investigation is underway into a burglary at the 1st Baptist Church of Glenridge in Junction City. Sandoval Police first responded after a report was received at 2:12 Friday afternoon that a burgla...
Feb 17, 2024
