Category Archives: Local News

The Marion County Sheriff's Department with citizen help and new technology has been able to track down two 17-year-old Salem area male juveniles who had allegedly seen transporting multiple stolen ro...

Centralia Police arrested a 26-year-old homeless Centralia woman for disorderly conduct, criminal trespass to a residence and aggravated assault. Sharesa Houser was taken to the Marion County Jail. A ...

Due to rescheduling because of bad weather, the SCHS FFA Club moved their "Drive your tractor to school day" to Tuesday, March 12th. Members parked their tractors Infront of the school for the entire ...

Auditions have been scheduled for the upcoming performance of Barefoot in the Park at the Salem Community Theatre. The play written by Neil Simon is a story about two newlyweds, Paul and Corie Bratter...

The Salem Tourism Board has agreed to pick up all the expenses to exhume the unidentified victim of the 1971 Tonti Train Wreck in hopes of learning his or her identity through new DNA technology. Sale...

Centralia city manager Galen Mahle announced at Monday night's city council meeting that job openings have been listed for Centralia's Director of Economic Development and Recreation Coordinator. Thos...

Centralia Police are looking for a woman who allegedly held up a Centralia man she accused of stealing her drugs and a drug scale. Police say the incident occurred outside a house in the 1100 block of...

Centralia Police handled two injury crashes Monday afternoon. The first occurred in the 100 block of South Hickory where the driver of an electric bicycle collided with a car. The bicyclist, 58-year-o...

A 34-year-old Belleville man was injured in a motocross accident Sunday afternoon on private property in the 3000 block of Farthing Road south of Odin. Odin Fire Chief Greg Smith says Joshua Wagner wa...

Windy conditions, low humidity and dry vegetation continued to fuel fires across the area on Monday. Jefferson Fire had a total of five grass fires. The largest covered five acres off Chestnut Lane so...