Category Archives: Local News
One person killed, another injured in rural Bluford house fire
One person died and a second was injured when fire engulfed a home north of Bluford Monday night. Jefferson Fire reported heavy fire at the rear of the single story home and heavy smoke showing from t...
Oct 10, 2023
Salem Community High School volleyball team hopes to raise over $6,000 to help cancer patient
The Salem Community High School volleyball team hopes to raise more than $6,000 to assist Faith Evans with medical costs associated with her battle against breast cancer. Assistant Coach Suzanne Brown...
Oct 10, 2023
Illinois State Police and IDOT combine efforts to reduce crashes in I-70 corridor
Illinois State Police are teaming up with the Effingham County Sheriff's Office to build upon its increased traffic enforcement efforts along the I-70 corridor due to an increase in crashes. One of th...
Oct 10, 2023 lorenz.markus97 / CC
Southern Illinois State Rep co-sponsors bill to protect private data of law-abiding gun owners
State Representative Dave Severin is co-sponsoring legislation that would require Illinois State Police to destroy gun-registry upon a court decision ruling the assault rifle ban unconstitutional. He ...
Oct 10, 2023
Time running out to order fish during soil and water conservation district fish sale
Time is limited to order fish from the Marion County Soil and Water Conservation District Fall Fish Sale. All species of fish are still available, but Grass Carp orders must be received on or before W...
Oct 10, 2023
Powerball jackpot up to $1.73 billion as lottery losing streak continues
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The Powerball jackpot climbed to an estimated $1.73 billion after no one matched the game's six numbers Monday and won the giant prize. The winning numbers announced were: 16, ...
Oct 10, 2023 Henita May / CC
Centralia City Council asked to take action to move two projects forward
The Centralia City Council will be asked to approve two resolutions at Tuesday night's meeting to move two projects forward. The first resolution would approve utilizing Fehr Graham to prepare a Commu...
Oct 10, 2023
96 vehicles take part in Little Egypt Car Show
The beautiful weather on Saturday brought out a large number of vehicles to the Little Egypt Festival Car Show. Organizer Ken Carpenter reports 90 vehicles registered to be judged and another six were...
Oct 10, 2023 Some of the 96 entries in last year's Little Egypt Festival Car Show.
Hails & Podergois Named Homecoming King & Queen
The Salem Community High School Student Council announced the king and queen of the Homecoming Court at Friday night's football game versus Columbia. The Homecoming Queen was Miranda Podergois and Kin...
Oct 10, 2023 King Dyson Hails and Queen Miranda Podergois.
Salem sets City Wide Clean Up for coming week, October 16th to 20th
The City of Salem Public Works Department has announced that the City Wide Clean Up will be held from October 16th to the 20th on your normal trash collection day. The City's residential trash hauler ...
Oct 09, 2023
