Category Archives: Local News
All of South Central Illinois at low level of hospitalizations for COVID-19 as cases grow statewide
All of South Central Illinois is currently listed in the low category for COVID-19 hospitalizations. However, statewide the number of hospitalizations is growing and more than half of the counties in ...
Jan 07, 2024
Most of South Central Illinois remains in severe drought
There has been little change in the severe drought conditions for most of South Central Illinois. The latest report with data through last Tuesday puts all of Marion, Jefferson, Washington, Clay, and ...
Jan 07, 2024
Police Beat for Sunday, January 7th, 2024
A 30-year-old Centralia man has been arrested by Centralia Police on multiple charges. Jacob Farranti of West Noleman Street is being held in the Marion County Jail for alleged unlawful restraint, agg...
Jan 07, 2024
Salem woman escapes injury when SUV overturns after hitting parked car on North Shelby Street
A 19-year-old Salem woman escaped injury when her SUV hit a parked car in the 500 block of North Shelby Street and overturned on its side. Salem Police say Emily Smith of West Locust was working as a ...
Jan 06, 2024 An SUV turns on its side after hitting a parked car on North Shelby Street in Salem Friday night. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Salem Police ticket driver of SUV that struck SCHS bus Thursday afternoon
Salem Police Chief Kyle Ambuehl says a 25-year-old Centralia man who crashed into the rear of a Salem Community High School bus taking students home Thursday afternoon has been issued two citations. J...
Jan 06, 2024 A car apparently unable to stop runs underneath an SCHS bus Thursday afternoon on West Main at Baldridge Lane. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Centralia man gets five-year prison term on weapons charge
A 42-year-old Centralia man has been sentenced to five years in prison after entering a negotiated plea to a charge of unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon. As part of the plea, Robert Jones of ...
Jan 06, 2024
Sandoval man graduates from Marion County Drug Court
A 60-year-old Sandoval man has graduated from Marion County Drug Court. Michael Flanagan of Isle Street had pleaded guilty before entering drug court to a June 2022 burglary. With the successful compl...
Jan 06, 2024 File photo: Marion County Courthouse.
Police Beat for Saturday, January 6th, 2024
A 37-year-old Salem man has been arrested by Centralia Police on new drug charges as well as on an outstanding Marion County traffic warrant. Matthew Nehrt of West Main Street was taken to the Marion ...
Jan 06, 2024
Amid record overdoses and drug counselor shortage, workforce expansion program aims to fill gap
Joint program offers funds, tuition assistance and stipends for future alcohol and drug counselors By DILPREET RAJU Capitol News Illinois draju@capitolnewsillinois.com Amid five straight years of reco...
Jan 06, 2024
Illinois man charged in Fourth of July parade shooting rehires lawyers weeks after dismissing them
By CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press/Report for America WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) - The man charged with killing seven people at a Fourth of July parade in suburban Chicago asked to again be represented by pub...
Jan 06, 2024 Robert E. Crimo III., listens to Judge Victoria A. Rossetti during a case management conference at the Lake County Courthouse Friday, Jan. 5, 2024, in Waukegan, Ill. A case management conference is scheduled for a suspect in a mass shooting that left seven people dead during a July 4 parade in Highland Park, Illinois. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, Pool)
