Category Archives: Local News
Impaired driving threatens holiday joy: IDOT, ISP aim for safer roads to conclude the year
Illinois State Police and the Illinois Department of Transportation are joining with nearly 200 law enforcement agencies for the annual 'Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over' campaign this holiday season. T...
Dec 23, 2023 ISP FILE PHOTO: An Illinois State Police squad car is pictured in a file photo.(Capitol News Illinois file photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Illinois Payroll Jobs Increase, Unemployment Rate Up in November
The unemployment rate in Illinois increased one-tenth of a percent in November to 4.7 percent. The Illinois Department of Employment Security is reporting at the same time the number of nonfarm jobs i...
Dec 23, 2023 Alachua County / CC
Federal judge declines to stay assault weapons ban ahead of Jan. 1 registration deadline
McGlynn previously issued an injunction that was overturned by appellate court By BETH HUNDSDORFER Capitol News Illinois bhundsdorfer@capitolnewsillinois.com A southern Illinois federal judge official...
Dec 22, 2023
Oldest Salem family-owned business dating back to 1800's is closing
The oldest Salem family-owned business has closed its doors. Larimer Abstract has been an institution in Salem since 1879. The closure comes as the fourth-generation owner Mark Larimer is retiring wit...
Dec 22, 2023
Salem Chamber of Commerce has new President
A new President has taken over at the Greater Salem Chamber of Commerce. The HR manager at Bettendorf-Stanford Laura Daugherty, who also owns her own business Laura's Crafty Things, has taken the gave...
Dec 22, 2023 Salem Chamber of Commerce incoming President Laura Daugherty (left) with Executive Director Jessiyka Coleman
Centralia man held for aggravated battery to two customers inside Dollar General Store
A 47-year-old Centralia man has been charged in Marion County Court with two counts of aggravated battery in a public place after allegedly striking two people inside the Dollar General Store on East ...
Dec 22, 2023 File photo: Marion County Courthouse.
Police Beat for Friday, December 22nd, 2023
Three people were brought to the Marion County Jail on Thursday on outstanding warrants. 20-year-old Tyrese Fleener of East Rasback in Centralia was arrested on a Marion County no bond warrant for fai...
Dec 22, 2023
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
