Category Archives: Local News
Police Beat for Saturday, August 6th, 2022
A 53-year-old Centralia man has been arrested by Centralia Police on two counts of resisting arrest. Brock Linder, who told authorities he was homeless, was taken to the Marion County Jail. Marion Cou...
Aug 06, 2022
Officials: Central Illinois day care worker has monkeypox
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) - Health officials say a central Illinois daycare worker has monkeypox but that it has not spread to others at the center. They say the worker at the unidentified daycare in the v...
Aug 06, 2022 Jernej Furman / CC
State Police release more details on I-57 fatal crash north of Dix
State Police have released more details on a car-semi crash that killed one person and resulted in a second being airlifted to a regional hospital. Police say the driver of the car that was killed was...
Aug 05, 2022
Illinois' Medicaid Reimbursement going up for abortion services
Medicaid reimbursement reimbursement rates for abortion service providers are going up next month. Governor JB Pritzker says Illinois will remain a sanctuary for women to make their own reproductive c...
Aug 05, 2022 New Voices
NovaCare Rehabilitation opens facility in Centralia
NovaCare Rehabilitation now has a facility in Centralia. It's inside the Body Shoppe Facility at 1138 West McCord Street. The Greater Centralia Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting this week to w...
Aug 05, 2022 Photo by: Pat Hodges.
State's new tax holiday on school supplies begins Friday
The state's tax holiday on school supplies begins Friday. For 10 straight days the state's sales tax will drop from 6.25% to 1.25%. Governor JB Pritzker says that should ease a little of the cost. "Wh...
Aug 05, 2022 Dan Keck
Four face new felony charges in Marion County Court
New felony charges have been filed against four people in Marion County Court. 56-year-old Robbie Dabney of Howard Street of Centralia was charged with criminal trespass to a residence to a home in th...
Aug 05, 2022 Blogtrepreneur / CC
Marion County Fair's new Junior Miss is Paisley Stanford
The Marion County Fair's new Junior Miss is Paisley Stanford of Salem. She was one of 20 vying to be the Marion County Fair's 2022 Junior Miss. "I was like 'oh my gosh'. It was only my first year and ...
Aug 04, 2022 Marion County's new Junior Miss Paisley Stanford receives her crown from outgoing queen Sarah Morris. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
One person killed, one airlifted from scene of car-semi crash on I-57 north of Dix
A Chicago area man is dead and a woman was injured in a car-semi crash on southbound I-57 about two miles north of Dix shortly after one Thursday afternoon. Jefferson County Coroner Roger Hayse says h...
Aug 04, 2022
Washington County Coroner releases names of those killed when hit by Amtrak train
Washington County Coroner Mark Styninger has released the names of the man and woman who were killed when being struck by an Amtrak Train just after midnight Wednesday morning. Both 28-year-old Curtis...
Aug 04, 2022 Richard Eriksson / CC
