Category Archives: Local News
Frederick Goss found guilty of three of four charges involving attempted escape from Jefferson County Jail
A 57-year-old Mt. Vernon man was found guilty of three of four charges brought against him in connection with an October 2021 struggle and gunfire during a failed attempt to escape during an earlier t...
Aug 31, 2023
Home just south of Centralia used for storage burns in Thursday morning fire
Fire damaged a home used for storage just south of the Centralia city limits early Thursday morning. Centralia Fire Protection District Chief Ross Boshera says flames were shooting through the roof of...
Aug 31, 2023 Fire engults a home on South Pine Street used for storage. Photo by Brady Toennies.
Patoka Fall Festival is Labor Day Weekend
The Patoka Fall Festival is this weekend. The event starts Friday evening with the carnival and food booths opening at five pm. The main event will be the Equestrian Fun Show featuring Dusti Crain-Dic...
Aug 31, 2023
Police Beat for Thursday, August 31st, 2023
Centralia Police have arrested 21-year-old Briana Monroe of North Lincoln in Centralia for alleged domestic battery. She was taken to the Marion County Jail to await a decision on formal charges. 47-y...
Aug 31, 2023
North American Lighting celebrates 40 years in Salem
North American Lighting celebrated the 40th anniversary of the operation of its Salem plant with activities on Wednesday. President/Chief Operating Officer Kishore Ahuja spoke to employees who have be...
Aug 31, 2023 NAL employees with 25 or more years on the job celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the start of the NAL Plant in Salem. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Salem Township Hospital has new Chief Financial Officer
Salem Township Hospital has a new Chief Financial Officer. Amy Gray who comes to Salem Township Hospital from the same position at Fairfield Memorial Hospital made her first financial report to the ho...
Aug 31, 2023 Salem Township Hospital new Chief Financial Officer Amy Gray. (provided photo)
Salem Township Hospital Board gets update on two major projects
The Salem Township Hospital Board Wednesday afternoon learned the A-wing renovation into a facility for three medical providers would not be completed as soon as originally hoped. Hospital President A...
Aug 31, 2023 work continues on the new raised parking lot at the front entrance to Salem Township Hospital. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Pritzker, state leaders call on Biden to allow Illinois to sponsor work permits for migrants
Business executives float easier work permit process as a solution to ongoing worker shortage By HANNAH MEISELCapitol News Illinoishmeisel@capitolnewsillinois.com CHICAGO - A coalition of elected offi...
Aug 31, 2023
Belleville woman among 3 US Marines killed in Australian aircraft crash
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - The bodies of three U.S. Marines killed in a tiltrotor aircraft crash during a training exercise in Australia were retrieved from the crash scene while another Marine remain...
Aug 31, 2023 Marine V-22B Osprey pilot Capt. Eleanor V. LeBeau from the Belleville area. The U.S. Marine Corps on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023, released the names, including Beau, of three Marines killed in a fiery tiltrotor aircraft crash on a north Australian island this week. (U.S. Marines Corps via AP)
5 people shot and wounded, 2 critically, in central Illinois city of Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) - Five people were shot and wounded, two of them critically, in a hail of bullets in the central Illinois city of Peoria, authorities said. The shooting happened at around 9 p.m. Wed...
Aug 31, 2023
