Category Archives: Local News
Unemployment jumps in area counties
Unemployment was up across South Central Illinois in July. In Marion County, unemployment jumped six-tenths of a percent to 5.8 percent. That's 1.1 percent higher than a year ago. The numbers translat...
Aug 25, 2023 Innov8social / CC
St Peter Prairie Days This Weekend
Tonight is the first night of the 48th St Peter Prairie Days. The evening begins at the City Park at 5pm when the Beer Garden opens and the Fish and Rib-eye dinners are served. The Sand Volleyball Tou...
Aug 25, 2023
Centralia High School introduces program to monitor student e-mails
Centralia High School has introduced a monitoring service for student e-mail accounts. Superintendent Chuck Lane says it's another step to protect students. "Gaggle is a tool for our district to use t...
Aug 25, 2023 Brett Jordan / Unsplash
Sandoval woman receives six year prison term on theft and meth charges
A 26-year-old Sandoval woman has been sentenced to six years in prison for possession of 15 to 100 grams of meth as well as a petition to revoke her drug court probation on a prior felony theft convic...
Aug 25, 2023
Centralia High School Board approves positive tentative budget
Centralia High School Superintendent Dr. Chuck Lane presented the tentative budget for the coming fiscal year to the school board Thursday night. He's looking at a half-million dollar surplus. "It's i...
Aug 25, 2023
No serious injuries reported in two vehicle crash on West Main in Salem
Salem Police say both drivers involved in a crash on West Main Street escaped serious injury and were not transported to the hospital. Police report the crash occurred when an eastbound car driven by ...
Aug 25, 2023
Jury convicts Madigan's longtime chief of staff on perjury, obstruction of justice charges
Tim Mapes was charged with lying to a grand jury investigating Madigan and his inner circle By HANNAH MEISELCapitol News Illinoishmeisel@capitolnewsillinois.com CHICAGO - A federal jury has convicted ...
Aug 24, 2023 FILE - This Oct. 4, 2007 file photo shows Tim Mapes, chief of staff to Illinois House Speaker Madigan at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, Ill. A federal prosecutor has told jurors that evidence would show the former chief of staff lied to a grand jury to protect his boss. That assertion came during opening statements at the perjury and obstruction of justice trial in Chicago of Tim Mapes. He served for almost two decades as Madigan’s chief of staff. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)
Two congregate care facilities on lockdown for COVID-19
For the first time since winter, two Marion County congregate care facilities are listed on outbreak status due to COVID-19. Marion County Health Department Administrator Melissa Mallow says a facilit...
Aug 24, 2023
Jefferson City, MO resident allegedly flees police, eventually boxed in
A 49-year-old Jefferson City, Missouri woman has been arrested for resisting arrest as well as outstanding warrants when fleeing police Wednesday night. Salem Police say they initially tried to get Ma...
Aug 24, 2023
Police Beat for Thursday, August 24th, 2023
A 22-year-old Patoka man has been arrested by Marion County Sheriff's Deputies for misuse of 911 and resisting arrest. The sheriff's department reports William Lewis of East Bond had called 911 to rep...
Aug 24, 2023
