Category Archives: Local News
Fire heavily damages Salem home Sunday morning
A fire that started in the bedroom of a home occupied by Nathan Nelson at 305 West Olive was heavily damaged by fire and smoke Sunday morning. Salem Assistant Fire Chief Bill Fulton says no one ended ...
Oct 15, 2023 Smoke pours from a home after Salem Fire Protection District Firemen quickly knock down flames showing from a bedroom window Sunday morning. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Pritzker Administration on Heightened Alert for Illinois Threats in Wake of Middle East Conflict
CHICAGO - Governor JB Pritzker, the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and Office of Homeland Security (IEMA-OHS), and the Illinois State Police (ISP) are closely monitoring the conflict in the Midd...
Oct 15, 2023 Gov. JB Pritzker is pictured at a news conference in his Capitol office earlier this year. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Booze, beads and art among unclaimed gifts lavished upon billionaire Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has so many fans and friends that he receives a $30 gift at the rate of one every three days, but because of his job, he accepts none of them, and ...
Oct 15, 2023 Gov. JB Pritzker (Capitol News Illinois file photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Ex-Illinois child welfare worker guilty of endangerment after boy beaten to death by mom
WOODSTOCK, Ill. (AP) - A judge convicted a former state child welfare worker Friday of child endangerment in connection with the 2019 beating death of a 5-year-old suburban Chicago boy by his mother, ...
Oct 15, 2023
Advocates push for guns to be taken from domestic abusers when the order of protection served
Bill named for Chicago domestic violence victim allegedly shot and killed by husband this summer By HANNAH MEISEL Capitol News Illinois hmeisel@capitolnewsillinois.com CHICAGO - As lawma...
Oct 14, 2023 Flanked by domestic violence advocates and a pair of state senators, State Rep. Maura Hirschauer, D-Batavia, speaks at a Chicago news conference on Thursday announcing intentions to run a gun-related proposal during the General Assembly’s fall veto session later this month. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Hannah Meisel)
Police Beat for Saturday, October 14th, 2023
A 44-year-old Mattoon woman remained in the Marion County Jail Saturday for alleged failure to appear in court on a domestic violence case. Laycee Yarbrough was returned to Marion County by prisoner t...
Oct 14, 2023
An Illinois mom and daughter are missing in Israel. Their family says Hamas is holding them hostage
By MELISSA PEREZ WINDER and CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press/Report for America EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) - Judith Raanan and her teenage daughter, Natalie Raanan, were excited to travel to Israel to celebrat...
Oct 14, 2023 Sigal Zamir, left, and her husband Avi holds hands as they attend a prayer vigil for Judith Raanan and her daughter Natalie on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023, in Evanston, Ill. Judith and Natalie are missing while visiting relatives in Nahal Oz for Simchat Torah, a festive Jewish holiday that marks the conclusion of the annual reading of the Torah. Sigal is the sister of Natalie's father Uri. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Marion County Jury finds Ricky Norwood guilty of murder of Dustin Rhynes (updated 5:45 pm Friday)
A Marion County Jury deliberated about four hours before finding Ricky Norwood of Centralia guilty of the August 2015 first-degree murder of Dustin Rhynes of Centralia. Rhynes was found lying near a g...
Oct 13, 2023
Report: Illinois' educator workforce weathered pandemic, but persistent issues remain
Shortages still exist in select regions, teaching specialties By PETER HANCOCK & ANDREW ADAMS Capitol News Illinois news@capitolnewsillinois.com SPRINGFIELD - The supply of education professionals...
Oct 13, 2023 Ann Whalen, director of policy for Advance Illinois, speaks to the crowd at the City Club of Chicago about her organization's recently released report on the education workforce in Illinois. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Mobile home destroyed by fire north of Mt. Vernon
A mobile home in the Rolling Meadows Mobile Home Park on Route 37 four miles north of Mt. Vernon was heavily damaged by fire on Thursday. Jefferson Fire reports the rear of the mobile home was engulfe...
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