Category Archives: Local News
Farina man pleads guilty to unlawful dissemination of private sex images
A 21-year-old Farina man has pleaded guilty in Marion County Court to a charge of non-consensual dissemination of private sex images. Diego Barradas was sentenced to two years probation and ordered to...
Oct 25, 2023
Marion County Board discusses health department; COVID-19 response
Marion County Health Department Administrator Melissa Mallow provided an overview of the operations of the health department and its board members at Tuesday night's county board meeting. The presenta...
Oct 25, 2023 Marion County Health Department Administrator Melissa Mallow (center) explains the role of the health department at an earlier board meeting. Looking on is County Clerk Steve Fox (left) and Health Board member Keith Kessler (right). Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Two selected to join Centralia High School Distinguished Alumni
Two Centralia High School graduates have been selected to join the Centralia High School Alumni Association's Distinguished Alumni. They are engineer Dave Clement of the Class of 1957 and Dr. Clara Co...
Oct 25, 2023 Alumni of the Year Dr. Clara Coleman Rouse Voss and Dave Clement.
House approves framework allowing legislative staff to unionize
Bill faces uncertain future in Senate By HANNAH MEISEL Capitol News Illinois news@capitolnewsillinois.com SPRINGFIELD - Democrats in the Illinois House on Wednesday approved a measure to allow certain...
Oct 25, 2023 Brady Burden, a member of the Illinois Legislative Staff Association organizing committee, is pictured with House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch in a Tuesday morning committee hearing. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Police Beat for Wednesday, October 25th, 2023
A 49-year-old Centralia woman has turned herself in at the Marion County Jail on a Marion County misdemeanor warrant. Bond on the warrant for Chandala Clark of East 3rd was set at $5,000. 56-year-old ...
Oct 25, 2023
Centralia man pleads guilty to six of ten child pornography charges pending against him
A 19-year-old Centralia man has pleaded guilty in Marion County Court to six of ten child pornography charges pending against him. Brent Morris of East Calumet is scheduled to be sentenced on January ...
Oct 25, 2023
Iuka man receives three-year prison term on felony drug charge
A 37-year-old Iuka man has been sentenced to three years in prison after his probation was revoked on an original conviction for possession of under five grams of methamphetamine. Alan Snow of Metcalf...
Oct 25, 2023
Marion County Board approves tentative budget and new union contract with highway department
The Marion County Board Tuesday night approved its tentative budget. The $12.9-million budget is balanced with the county anticipating starting the fiscal year on December 1st with $ 5.2 million in th...
Oct 25, 2023 Investment Zen / CC
Northbound Interstate 57 in Marion County to reopen
The Illinois Department of Transportation has announced that northbound Interstate 57 between the Jefferson County line and seven-tenths of a mile north of Illinois 161 is scheduled to reopen, weather...
Oct 25, 2023
Investigation underway on how Salem man had a finger severed
A 35-year-old Salem man was airlifted to a St. Louis Hospital for treatment of a hand injury where one finger was severed and another sustained some damage. What led up to Brant Renfrow of Lovell Stre...
Oct 25, 2023
