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Contractors working on ten million dollars in improvement projects at Salem Community High School this summer brought in a helicopter Friday to lift new heating and air conditioning units to the roof ...
Bruce Kropp Jul 08, 2022 The helicopter with an HVAC unit attached on its way from the front SCHS parking lot where the units have been stored to the roof of the school where they are being installed.
The Salem Community Theatre performance of Biloxi Blues opens this Friday, Saturday and Sunday and continues next weekend. Michelle Barbee directs the play. "It is a show that is poignant, it's a comi...
WJBD Staff Jul 08, 2022 Biloxi Blues cast. Front row left to right: Kristin Bailey as Daisy Hannibal, Jeff Crow as Sgt. Toomey, and Kathie Garren as Rowena. Back Row left to right: Adam Alexander as Eugene Jerome, Zach Torbeck as Don Carney, Donvan Gatren as James Hennessy, Dawson Deckard as Roy Seldridge, Connor Lorrence as Joseph Wykowski and Austin Williams as Arnold. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
A mobile home south of the Centralia City Limits was damaged in a Wednesday afternoon fire. Centralia Fire Protection District Chief Ross Boshera says the fire was at a home owned by Roger Downen at 2...
WJBD Staff Jul 08, 2022 Centralia Fire Protection District firemen fight a fire in a bedroom at a mobile home at 2321 South Pine. Photo by Tim Ferguson.
Salem Police reported all those involved in a three vehicle crash Thursday afternoon at West Main and Kinney Boulevard refused hospital treatment. Police report the crash occurred when 41-year-old Ste...
WJBD Staff Jul 08, 2022
A fire damaged two apartments and resulted in smoke damage to the other six inside an apartment building at 2020 Broadway in Mt. Vernon early Friday morning. Mt. Vernon Fire Chief Kevin Sergeant says ...
WJBD Staff Jul 08, 2022
A 22-year-old Centralia man has been charged with aggravated battery and criminal damage to property in connection with a June 20th incident. Jalon Bowen-Hamilton of Maulding Drive is accused of strik...
WJBD Staff Jul 08, 2022 Marion County Courthouse
A 23-year-old Centralia man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison when pleading guilty to one of two Class X predatory criminal sexual assault to a victim under 13 charges pending against him. Adam...
Bruce Kropp Jul 07, 2022
Tickets go on sale Monday morning for grandstand events at the 82nd annual Marion County Fair. As in the past, tickets will only be sold in person at the fair box office from nine to noon on Monday. P...
Bruce Kropp Jul 07, 2022
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The first Black woman to serve on the Illinois Supreme Court has been sworn in. Lisa Holder white took the oath Thursday. The 54-year-old Decatur Republican had previously sat...
Bruce Kropp Jul 07, 2022 Rita Holder White was sworn in as Illinois Supreme Court Justice, becoming the first Black woman to serve in that capacity.
Cleanup is underway in the Centralia City Council chambers where a storm drain pipe clogged during the heavy overnight rain and water came through the ceiling above the area where the city council sit...
Bruce Kropp Jul 07, 2022