Category Archives: Local News

ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill. (AP) - A suburban Chicago man has been sentenced to 57 years in prison for shooting an Illinois state trooper in the arm in 2019 as the officer was serving a warrant at his home....

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi's attorney general has no plan to prosecute the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago. Michelle Williams...

Country star and Patoka native Drew Baldridge is returning home on October 1st to host a music concert in downtown Patoka. Baldridge says the open area next to Patoka Village Hall to near the bank wil...

The 2nd annual Summer Market in downtown Centralia is expanding after a large crowd attended the inaugural event last year. It is scheduled from ten to two this Saturday in the 100 and 200 blocks of E...

A 30-year-old Centralia man has been charged with four felony offenses in Marion County Court in the aftermath of an alleged domestic dispute that later involved an attempt to keep from being taken in...

Centralia Police have arrested two people on felony possession of drug charges. 30-year-old Brittany Stephens of South Hickory in Centralia was arrested for alleged possession of methamphetamine, poss...

The Marion County Health Department is reporting the county's first COVID-19-related death since early March. Health Department Administrator Melissa Mallow says she is saddened to announce the death ...

CHICAGO (AP) - Planned Parenthood of Illinois is combining forces with its Wisconsin counterpart to help patients travel to get abortions following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v....

Mt. Vernon Police Chief Trent Page says a 19-year-old Mt. Vernon man received life-threatening injuries in a shooting that occurred outside in the 2200 block of Logan Street late Tuesday night. Page r...

Centralia City Fire Officials report no damage in a fire call Thursday morning at the Darrell Jones home at 609 Rasback. Firemen responded after Jones came home and found his garage full of smoke. The...