Category Archives: Local News

Centralia High School Homecoming King and Queen are crowned
Photos by Pat Hodges It is Homecoming Weekend at Centralia High School. Anija Moffett was crowned as Queen and William Graham as King. The rest of the homecoming court was senior candidate Ciara Newco...
Bruce Kropp Sep 25, 2022

Police Beat for Sunday, September 25th, 2022
Centralia Police arrested 25-year-old Nicholas Cook of Granite City for possession of methamphetamine. He was taken to the Marion County Jail. Centralia Police arrested 48-year-old Justin Brake of Ric...
Bruce Kropp Sep 25, 2022

Breese man killed in Lebanon crash
A 27-year-old Breese man has died in the aftermath of a single vehicle rollover crash in Lebanon early Friday morning. St. Clair County Coroner Calvin Dye Sr. identifies the victim as Tyler Gartside. ...
Bruce Kropp Sep 24, 2022

Another COVID-19 related death reported in Marion County which remains at medium level for community spread
The Marion County Health Department has reported another COVID-19-related death. Health Department Administrator Melissa Mallow says a female in her 80s who was not a long-term care resident and not v...
Bruce Kropp Sep 24, 2022

Police Beat for Saturday, September 24th, 2022
Centralia Police have arrested 33-year-old Travis Cooksey of Centralia for possession of methamphetamine, possession of drug paraphernalia, and deceptive practice. He was taken to the Marion County Ja...
Bruce Kropp Sep 24, 2022

Illinois lawmaker enters plea in red-light camera scandal
CHICAGO (AP) - A Chicago state senator pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of lying to the FBI and seeking a bribe to oppose legislation that would have required a statewide evaluation of red-light c...
Bruce Kropp Sep 24, 2022 State Senator Emil Jones (from website)

4 die in domestic disturbance where house caught fire
OAK FOREST, Ill. (AP) - Police in suburban Chicago responding to a domestic incident early Friday found three gunshot victims who were mortally wounded outside a house and later the body of another pe...
Bruce Kropp Sep 24, 2022

Man who was 1 of 8 injured in Chicago apartment blast dies
CHICAGO (AP) - A man who was one of eight people injured in an explosion that tore through the top floor of a Chicago apartment building has died, and authorities have determined the blast resulted fr...
Bruce Kropp Sep 24, 2022 Arvell Dorsey Jr. / CC

Jefferson County Sheriff's Deputies make arrest in child pornography investigation
An investigation into alleged child pornography activity has led to the arrest of a 23-year-old Mt. Vernon man. Owen Capogreco of South 19th Street was taken into custody Wednesday on a Jefferson Coun...
WJBD Staff Sep 23, 2022

Unemployment drops in Marion County
Unemployment dropped two-tenths of a percent in Marion County in August to 5.2 percent. The Illinois Department of Employment Security reports the rate was down a full percent from August a year ago. ...
WJBD Staff Sep 23, 2022 Innov8social / CC