Category Archives: Local News
Police Beat for Tuesday, October 25th, 2022
Salem Police have arrested a 53-year-old Centralia woman for felony retail theft. Police say Cindy Britt of South Wabash allegedly left the store with a cart with items valued at $1,194 on October 4th...
Oct 25, 2022
Brush fire spreads to backyards of two homes southeast of Centralia
A wind-whipped brush fire got out of hand in the backyard of a home at 1138 Meadowlark near the Schwartz Road intersection Monday night. Centralia Fire Protection District Chief Ross Boshera says upon...
Oct 25, 2022 Centralia Fire Protection District at Monday night grass fire. Photo by Tim Ferguson.
School gunman had AR-15-style weapon, 600 rounds of ammo
By MICHAEL PHILLIS and JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) - The 19-year-old gunman who killed a teacher and a 15-year-old girl at a St. Louis high school was armed with an AR-15-style rifle an...
Oct 25, 2022 The outside of Central Visual and Performing Arts High School in St. Louis, on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022. A fatal shooting just after 9 a.m. at the high school forced students to barricade doors and huddle in classroom corners, jump from windows and run out of the building to seek safety. (AP Photo/Michael Phillis)
BCMW/WJBD Adopt A Family Program
The BCMW/WJBD Adopt-A-Family Christmas Program will begin taking applications for disadvantaged families in Marion County beginning Tuesday, November 1, 2022. Applications will be taken Tuesday, Novem...
Oct 25, 2022 Ravi Shah / CC
City of Centralia to look at solar energy to control electric costs
The City of Centralia will be looking at installing solar energy fields at some of their facilities to control electric costs that are expected to double when a new contract takes effect in February. ...
Oct 25, 2022 Jordan Haarman
Kaskaskia College's new HIT program receives 7 year accreditation
Kaskaskia College's new Health Information Technology Program that trains those for coding medical bills for payment has received a seven-year accreditation. College President George Evans is thanking...
Oct 25, 2022 Kaskaskia College Board
Two Marion County Jail inmates charged in connection with weekend fight
Two Marion County Jail inmates face new charges of aggravated battery following a fight in a Marion County Jail cell on Saturday. 27-year-old Matthew Woods of North Maple in Centralia is charged with ...
Oct 25, 2022
2 killed in shooting at St. Louis high school; gunman dead
By MICHAEL PHILLIS and JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) - A gunman broke into a St. Louis high school Monday morning, fatally shooting a woman and a teenage girl and wounding six others befo...
Oct 24, 2022
Camper parked at Marion County Fairgrounds destroyed by fire
A fire heavily damaged a camper parked at one of the camping spaces at the Marion County Fairgrounds Monday morning. Salem Fire Protection District Fire Marshal Bill Fulton says the owner, Zackary Sta...
Oct 24, 2022
Marion County Relay for Life soars over goal
The Marion County Relay for Life soared over its goal at the Saturday night event at the Marion County Fairgrounds. The goal of $35,000 was easily topped, with $55,780.50 collected by the closing cere...
Oct 24, 2022 Cancer survivors lead off the opening ceremony at the Marion County Relay for Life.
