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There will be early voting on Saturday at the Marion County Courthouse for the Tuesday, April 4th, consolidated election. Voting will take place in the Marion County Clerk's office on the second floor...
Bruce Kropp Mar 31, 2023
Five area fire departments fought a fire that burned seven acres of woods late Thursday afternoon. Centralia Fire Protection District Chief Ross Boshera says the fire was on the Charles Rash property ...
Bruce Kropp Mar 31, 2023
A 43-year-old Walnut Hill woman has been arrested on a no-bond warrant for escape. Reda Allen of Post Oak Road had the warrant issued when not returning on time to the jail to begin serving her two-ye...
Bruce Kropp Mar 31, 2023
The National Weather Service says South Central Illinois is a large band where there is a moderate risk of severe weather activity late Friday afternoon. The most likely time for severe storms is from...
Bruce Kropp Mar 31, 2023
The Salem Township Hospital Board has approved a $43.6-million budget that includes $2.7-million for capital improvements and money for reconstruction of the A-wing into three doctor's offices. Hospit...
WJBD Staff Mar 31, 2023
Environmental, anti-nuclear groups oppose the legislation By ANDREW ADAMSCapitol News Illinoisaadams@capitolnewsillinois.com SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois Senate approved a measure on Thursday that would...
Bruce Kropp Mar 31, 2023 Sen. Sue Rezin, R-Morris, speaks on the Senate floor Thursday in favor of her bill to lift a statewide moratorium on new nuclear power construction. The measure passed with bipartisan support. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
In intense courtroom moment, government's star witness accused of saving his own skin By HANNAH MEISELCapitol News Illinoishmeisel@capitolnewsillinois.com CHICAGO - About an hour before sunrise on a m...
Bruce Kropp Mar 31, 2023
Just the smell of marijuana would not give police officers probable cause to search a vehicle under a bill passed by the Illinois Senate Thursday. There have already been court rulings on the matter b...
WJBD Staff Mar 31, 2023 Dale Cruse / CC
By JOHN O'CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Three former Illinois prison guards will spend years behind bars for fatally punching, kicking and stomping a 65-year-old inmate after dra...
Bruce Kropp Mar 30, 2023 Gregory K. Harris, U.S. attorney for the Central District of Illinois, explains on Tuesday, March 28, 2023 the reasoning behind the sentences his office sought in the cases of three former Illinois Department of Corrections officers who were convicted of federal civil rights violations and obstruction charges in the beating death of inmate Larry Earvin, 65, at Western Illinois Correctional Center in May 2018. Prosecutors sought life sentences for Alex Banta, 31, and Todd Sheffler, 54, for their roles in the incident but they were each sentenced to 20 years in federal prison. The third defendant, Willie Hedden, 44, pleaded guilty and testified against Banta and Sheffler. The government sought a sentence of 10 years for him, but he was sentenced to six years. (Associated Press/John O'Connor)
A 24-year-old Salem man has been arrested by Kinmundy Police for burglary. Alexander Russell of West Elm was taken into custody in connection with a burglary to a mobile home in the 600 block of State...
Bruce Kropp Mar 30, 2023