Category Archives: Local News
Police Beat for Saturday, January 21st, 2022
Marion County Sheriff's Deputies have arrested a 44-year-old Centralia woman for aggravated battery. Angela Moats of South Cherry is accused of striking another female when they were playing slots at ...
Jan 21, 2023
Centralia High School announces May Fete Court and 2023 King and Queen
This year's Centralia High School May Fete Queen and King will be Jeh'Chys Brown and Raelyn Dearing. The King and Queen along with the rest of the May Fete court were released on Friday. Senior attend...
Jan 20, 2023
Mt. Vernon man receives 14-year prison term for child porn
A 68-year-old Mt. Vernon man has been sentenced to a total of 14 years in prison in Jefferson County Court on two counts of possession of child pornography. Roy Staley had been charged with a total of...
Jan 20, 2023
Effingham County Judge issues order blocking Illinois semiautomatic gun ban
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - A judge issued a temporary restraining order Friday blocking the new Illinois law banning assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines. Effingham County Judge Joshua Morr...
Jan 20, 2023 FILE - Assault weapons are seen for sale at Capitol City Arms Supply on Jan. 16, 2013 in Springfield, Ill. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)
One injured in room fire at Super Eight in Salem
One person received apparent minor injuries in a fire at the Super Eight Motel in Salem early Friday morning. Salem Assistant Fire Chief and Fire Marshal Bill Fulton says fire was in a first-floor roo...
Jan 20, 2023
Illinois paramedics, ambulance company sued for man's death
By KATHLEEN FOODY The Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) - The family of an Illinois man whose death prompted murder charges against two paramedics who strapped him facedown on a stretcher has filed a laws...
Jan 20, 2023 This combination of photos provided by the Sangamon County Sheriff's Dept. shows Peter J. Cadigan, left, and Peggy Jill Finley on Jan. 9, 2023, in Springfield, Ill. The two paramedics face first-degree murder charges, accused of strapping a patient facedown on a stretcher while taking him to a hospital in response to police concerns. Illinois authorities announced the charges on Jan. 10, 2023, nearly a month after Earl L. Moore died on Dec. 18. (Sangamon County Sheriff's Dept. via AP)
Lawsuit: Illinois agency wrongfully imprisoned children
By CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press/Report for America CHICAGO (AP) - Illinois Department of Children and Family Services wrongfully incarcerated hundreds of children in juvenile detention after a court...
Jan 20, 2023 Attorney Russell Ainsworth, right, encourages 18-year-old Janiah Caine, who was previously in the care of Illinois Department of Children and Family Services as a minor, to "speak from the heart" during a press conference announcing a class action lawsuit alleging the DCFS has wrongfully incarcerated minors in its care. Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023, at the offices of Loevy & Loevy Attorneys at Law in Chicago. Caine spoke about the consequences of being locked up for so long, and about losing her grandmother while she was incarcerated. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)
Drugs, other risks ruled out at prison where dozens got sick
By JOHN O'CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Testing to determine the reason two dozen employees at a state prison this week needed medical treatment for dizziness, nausea and vomitin...
Jan 20, 2023 Jobs For Felons Hub / CC
Kindergartners at Hawthorn School now get physical education
Kindergartners in the Salem Grade School District are having physical education for the first time. Hawthorne Grade School Principal Marty Adams says now that the multi-purpose building in front of Ha...
Jan 20, 2023
Odin Village Board approves liquor expansion
The Odin Village Board on a 4-2 vote Thursday night approved an expansion of liquor licenses to include two for video gaming and one for a restaurant where more than 51-percent of sales has to be from...
Jan 20, 2023 About two dozen turned out at the Odin Village Board meeting to try and convince the board not to approve new liquor licenses.
