Category Archives: Local News
Multiple fire departments called to roof fire at Continental Tire
Multiple fire departments responded to an early Friday morning fire on the roof of one of the buildings at Continental Tire in Mt. Vernon. Jefferson Fire officials say the fire was spotted from the pa...
Dec 22, 2023
Longtime Chicago Alderman Ed Burke found guilty of corruption
CHICAGO (AP) - A federal jury convicted former Alderman Ed Burke on 13 corruption counts Thursday after hearing allegations the longest-serving City Council member in Chicago history with a 54-year te...
Dec 22, 2023 MK Feeney / CC
Chicago man exonerated in 2011 murder case where legally blind eyewitness gave testimony
By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press Darien Harris spent more than 12 years in an Illinois prison, convicted of murder in part on the testimony of an eyewitness who was legally blind. Harris, who was re...
Dec 22, 2023 Blogtrepreneur / CC
Texas begins flying migrants from southern border to Chicago. The 1st plane carried over 120 people
By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas sent a plane with more than 120 migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border to Chicago in an escalation of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's busing op...
Dec 21, 2023 FILE - Immigrants from Venezuela are reflected in a marble wall while taking shelter at the Chicago Police Department's 16th District station on May 1, 2023. Chicago officials have signed a nearly $30 million contract with a private security firm to relocate migrants seeking asylum from police stations and the city’s two airports to winterized camps with massive tents before cold weather arrives. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, FIle)
Centralia man injured in single car crash just south of Centralia
A 35-year-old Centralia man has been injured in a single vehicle crash on US 51 south of Wabash Avenue just south of Centralia. Marion County Sheriff's Deputies say Travis Brinkmann of Sassafras Road ...
Dec 21, 2023
Man apparently seeking shelter falls through floor at shuttered Langenfeld Hotel
Centralia City Firemen were called late Wednesday night to a man apparently seeking shelter falling through the floor on the first floor into the basement of the old Langenfeld Hotel in the 100 block ...
Dec 21, 2023 Old Langenfeld Motel. Photo by Pat Hodges.
Marion and Washington County now at medium level for COVID hospitalizations
Marion and Washington Counties have jumped up to the medium level for COVID-19 hospitalizations. The latest weekly report from the Centers for Disease Control Marion County has had 10 COVID-19 hospita...
Dec 21, 2023
Government offices announce holiday schedules and trash collection changes
Salem and Centralia officials have announced closures and trash pickup schedules for the Christmas and New Year's holidays. Salem City Hall will be closed both Monday and Tuesday of next week for Chri...
Dec 21, 2023 Christmas tree lit on Sweney Corner in December 2023. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
All South Central School students to get free lunch and breakfast another four years
South Central School Superintendent Kerry Herdes told the school board this week that after a successful School Nutrition Audit, the district will be able to continue the free breakfast and lunch prog...
Dec 21, 2023
Expanded Angel Elf program in Centralia expands to serve 300 kids
More than 300 kids in the Centralia area will have Christmas gifts thanks to the expanded Angel Elf program held for the first time this year at the Calumet Street Christian Church. Sharon Hall has co...
Dec 21, 2023
