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COVID-19 cases continue to increase statewide, with 88 of the 102 counties now at an increased risk of transmission. That's up from 86 counties last week, although fewer counties are considered at hig...
Bruce Kropp Dec 24, 2022 Erica Firment / CC
A rural Dix home was destroyed by fire Friday afternoon. The home was fully involved in flames and was already starting to structurally collapse when firemen arrived at the scene on Snap Dragon Lane e...
Bruce Kropp Dec 24, 2022
Firemen quickly extinguished a fire blamed on heat tape at an Odin mobile home Friday night. Odin Fire Chief Greg Smith says the fire was at a home occupied by Alexander Russell at 414 Perkins Street....
Bruce Kropp Dec 24, 2022 Firemen investigate a small fire started by heat tape at a fire at 414 Perkins Street in Odin late Friday night.
A car caught fire as it was leaving the drive-through at the east side McDonald's restaurant in Centralia Friday night. The driver and owner Selena Fleener of Rasback Street in Centralia was alerted b...
Bruce Kropp Dec 24, 2022 Fire engulfs a car as it leaves the drive-through at the East Side McDonalds in Centralia. Photo by Tim Ferguson.
Centralia City Firemen were called to the woman's clinic at SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital Friday night after a sprinkler fire alarm was activated. Upon arrival, firemen found the sprinkler head had b...
Bruce Kropp Dec 24, 2022
A 50-year-old Rosiclare man has been arrested by Marion County Sheriff's Deputies for violation of the sex offender registration act. Terry Tolbert was taken to the Marion County Jail. Marion County S...
Bruce Kropp Dec 24, 2022
The Illinois Department of Employment Security reports unemployment in Marion County fell to 4.8 percent in November. That compares to an even five percent in October and 4.6 percent a year ago. The 4...
Bruce Kropp Dec 23, 2022 Ernie Journeys / Unsplash
Winter is starting to settle in and the Illinois Commerce Commission is offering some tips to help save on home energy costs. The I-C-C recommends scheduling maintenance on your heating system and sea...
Bruce Kropp Dec 23, 2022 Ben Simpson / CC
Marion County Sheriff Kevin Cripps has named Sandoval Police Officer Jake Delcour as a new deputy. The additional deputy position was added to this year's county budget to provide a deputy to work alo...
Bruce Kropp Dec 23, 2022 Marion County Sheriff Kevin Cripps (left) welcomes Sandoval Police Officer Jake Delcour as a new sheriff's deputy.
A 20-year-old Irvington woman was injured in a single-vehicle crash Thursday morning in the 24-hundred block of South Perrine Street just outside the southeast Centralia City Limits. Deputies say Aust...
Bruce Kropp Dec 23, 2022