Category Archives: Local News

With the start of the new year, all police recruits in Illinois will have to take a course on avoiding wrongful convictions. This is a new requirement but was developed several years ago and used by M...

A 44-year-old rural Kell man was taken to the Marion County Jail on an outstanding failure to appear misdemeanor warrant on a battery conviction. James Garner was being held in lieu of a $2,500 bond. ...

There were only four building permits issued in the City of Centralia during January and they totaled only $8,000. The largest permit was for a sign for a business at 806 South Poplar requested by Kel...

A fire at a mobile home in Wamac Wednesday afternoon was confined to a bathroom. Centralia Fire Protection District Chief Ross Boshera says the fire at the mobile home in the Brookside Mobile Home Par...

Salem Police arrested a 36-year-old Centralia man for unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon and unlawful use of a weapon after they received a report of an employee at a business having a gun. Re...

Two Centralia residents were arrested after a burglary to a shed in rural Central City was broken up in progress. 32-year-old Stephen Bryant of North Cherry and 41-year-old Christopher Frakes of East ...

While total oil production was down, Marion County remained the number two oil producing county in Illinois in 2022. The figures tabulated by the Illinois Petroleum Resource Board show the county prod...

A 67-year-old rural Iuka man was airlifted from the scene of a one vehicle crash on the Route 161 extension about a half mile east of Route 37 Thursday night. The driver is identified as David William...

This is identify theft awareness week and Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul's office has some tips to protect yourself. Identity theft can happen to anyone, so it's important to safeguard your per...

The Carlyle Lake Main Dam will be closed to pedestrians while contractors are painting the dam machinery, stop logs, and bridge deck. The parking lots located on the south side of the dam will also be...