Category Archives: Local News
'Omnibus' health care bill passed amid criticisms
Wide-ranging law put popular, controversial measures into a single package By PETER HANCOCKCapitol News Illinoisphancock@capitolnewsillinois.com SPRINGFIELD - A law recently signed by Gov. JB Pritzker...
Jan 28, 2023 Jim Bowen / CC
All of South Central Illinois now in low category for COVID-19 transmission
The weekly CDC tracker puts all South Central Illinois counties in the low transmission level for COVID-19 with a significant drop in new cases. Marion County saw a 32-percent drop in COVID-19 cases t...
Jan 28, 2023
Centralia man charged with unlawful restraint in Marion County Court
A 37-year-old Centralia man has been formally charged with unlawful restraint and misdemeanor domestic battery in Marion County Court on Friday. Blake Bender of Hester Street had the public defender a...
Jan 28, 2023 Marion County Courthouse with old flag poles that have now been removed due to structural problems.
Police Beat for Saturday, January 28th, 2023
Four people were taken to the Marion County Jail on Friday on outstanding warrants. 32-year-old Dustin Marshall of Melrose Drive in Centralia was arrested for a drug court violation in a possession of...
Jan 28, 2023
$2M bond for Illinois man who stabbed Michigan teen over sex
SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - A judge set bond at $2 million Friday for an 18-year-old Illinois man who is accused of traveling to Michigan to meet a teenager and then stabbing her for refusing t...
Jan 28, 2023 gt8073a / CC
Recreational Vehicle destroyed by fire in Iuka
A 1998 Coachman Recreational Vehicle was destroyed by fire late Friday morning in Iuka. Iuka Fire Chief Kenny Eagan says the RV was parked near the home of Guy Lambert of 710 Thomas Street. Eagan repo...
Jan 27, 2023 Iuka Fire Station
Evansville, IN man gets 50 year prison term for murder of Fairfield teen
An Evansville, Indiana man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for the murder of a Fairfield teenager. Attorney General Kwame Raoul's office prosecuted 27-year-old Brody Murbarger for the 2014 mu...
Jan 27, 2023 Brody Murbarger
Fire destroys half of large pole barn on southwest side of Wamac
Fire destroyed about half of a 60 by 100-foot pole barn in the southwest corner of Wamac Thursday night. Centralia Fire Protection District Chief Ross Boshera says flames were already coming through t...
Jan 27, 2023
Marion County Sheriff's Department says they are not calling people offering to take care of warrants
The Marion County Sheriff's Department number and an officer's name is being used in a scam. The sheriff's department reports their phone number shows up on the phone ID and the name of an actual offi...
Jan 27, 2023
Unemployment drops slightly in Marion County
Unemployment was down slightly in Marion County in December. Figures being released by the Illinois Department of Employment Security places the county's unemployment at 4.3-percent. That's a drop of ...
Jan 27, 2023 Innov8social / CC
