Category Archives: Local News
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...
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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.
Police Beat for Friday, January 20th, 2023
Four people were brought to the Marion County Jail on Thursday on outstanding warrants. 50-year-old Jerrie Pfister of New Prep Lane in Centralia was arrested by Wamac Police on a Marion County felony ...
Jan 20, 2023
Governor talks to reports from Switzerland on efforts to overturn ban on assault weapons
Lawsuits against Illinois' new ban on assault weapons are being filed in state and federal courts but Governor JB Pritzker says he remains confident the law will be upheld. Speaking on a media call fr...
Jan 20, 2023
Federal and State lawsuits challenge recent Illinois semiautomatic gun ban
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Legal challenges to Illinois' semiautomatic weapons ban began Wednesday with a federal complaint that the 8-day-old law prohibits "commonly possessed" and constitutionally pro...
Jan 19, 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)
'Unknown substance' sickens Graham Correctional Center staff, inmates
By JOHN O'CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Several employees of a central Illinois prison were treated at hospitals Wednesday after they became sickened while responding to one or m...
Jan 19, 2023
Police Beat for Thursday, January 19th, 2023
A 35-year-old Iuka man was arrested by Marion County Sheriff's Deputies Wednesday night for illegal possession of a weapon by a felon and driving on a suspended or revoked license. Ryan McCarty of Fro...
Jan 19, 2023
Salem man pleads guilty to eight car burglaries
A 19-year-old Salem man has pleaded guilty to eight car burglaries on a single night in Salem last September. Branden Powell of South Franklin was placed on 30 months second chance probation, with dru...
Jan 19, 2023
Fire destroys vacant rural Salem home
A fire destroyed a vacant home in the Dolores Reed estate at 5000 England Road southeast of Salem late Wednesday night. Salem Firemen say they could see the fire from the south side of Salem when head...
Jan 19, 2023 Five area fire departments battle a fire that destroyed a fire on the England Road southeast of Salem late Wednesday night.
