Category Archives: Local News

The Salem Tourism Board has agreed to pick up all the expenses to exhume the unidentified victim of the 1971 Tonti Train Wreck in hopes of learning his or her identity through new DNA technology. Sale...

Centralia city manager Galen Mahle announced at Monday night's city council meeting that job openings have been listed for Centralia's Director of Economic Development and Recreation Coordinator. Thos...

Centralia Police are looking for a woman who allegedly held up a Centralia man she accused of stealing her drugs and a drug scale. Police say the incident occurred outside a house in the 1100 block of...

Centralia Police handled two injury crashes Monday afternoon. The first occurred in the 100 block of South Hickory where the driver of an electric bicycle collided with a car. The bicyclist, 58-year-o...

A 34-year-old Belleville man was injured in a motocross accident Sunday afternoon on private property in the 3000 block of Farthing Road south of Odin. Odin Fire Chief Greg Smith says Joshua Wagner wa...

Windy conditions, low humidity and dry vegetation continued to fuel fires across the area on Monday. Jefferson Fire had a total of five grass fires. The largest covered five acres off Chestnut Lane so...

A modular home was damaged by fire in Sandoval late Monday night. Sandoval Fire Chief Chad Parson says initial reports indicate a fire with explosions and possible entrapment. Upon arrival, firemen fo...

The Hiram Masonic Lodge #503 recognized Frank Payne with a certificate and pin for 50 years of membership.

The Illinois Department of Revenue has added a 2.62-percent multiplier to the 2024 Marion County property tax bills that are expected to be mailed in June. The multiplier is on top of a 7-percent mult...

Salem Fire Protection District officials say two storage buildings sustained minor damage in a grass fire Sunday afternoon. The small 20 by 20 foot fire on the Pat Williams property on Country Club Es...