Category Archives: Local News
Centralia City Firemen battle woods fire
Centralia City Firemen battled a woods fire early Thursday night that covered about a quarter acre on the Deborah Willis property on Lackey Lane near Raccoon Lake. Firefighters say the fire began as a...
Nov 11, 2022
Police Beat for Friday, November 11th, 2022
Centralia Police arrested 56-year-old Anthony Watkins of Walnut Hill Road in Centralia on an outstanding St. Clair County Warrant for failure to appear on an aggravated DUI charge. He was taken to the...
Nov 11, 2022
Salem man receives five year prison term after failing Marion County Drug Court
A 35-year-old Salem man has been sentenced to five years in prison after being removed from the Marion County Drug Court Program. Judge Mark Stedelin on Thursday sentenced Damon DeBoer of South Jeffer...
Nov 11, 2022
Noose found at Obama Presidential Center construction site
CHICAGO (AP) - The firm building the Obama Presidential Center suspended operations Thursday after a noose was found at the site, and it offered a $100,000 reward to help find who was responsible. Lak...
Nov 11, 2022 FILE - Former President Barack Obama points to a rendering for the former president's lakefront presidential center at a community event at the South Shore Cultural Center in Chicago on May 3, 2017. A federal judge on Tuesday, March 29, 2022, has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to prevent the construction of the Obama Presidential Center in a park on Chicago's South Side. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)
Friday is Veterans Day
Most government offices and schools are closed Friday for the Veterans Day Holiday. That includes area courthouses and Salem and Centralia City Halls. There will be no home mail delivery, most financi...
Nov 11, 2022
Du Bois man gets 30 year prison term for aggravated criminal sexual assault
A 69-year-old Du Bois man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison in Jefferson County Court on a Class X charge of predatory criminal sexual assault. Under state law, James Martin Senior will have to...
Nov 10, 2022
Wamac man injured in car-motorcycle crash
A 44-year-old Wamac man was injured in a car-motorcycle crash in rural Walnut Hill early Wednesday night. Initial information from the Marion County Sheriff's Department indicates Timothy Ramsey of Gi...
Nov 10, 2022 Tom Reynolds / CC
Police Beat for Thursday, November 10th, 2022
A 53-year-old Centralia man has been arrested for obstructing justice, criminal damage to state supported property and resisting arrest. Mark Copple of West 4th Street was taken to the Marion County J...
Nov 10, 2022
Litchfield man arrested for cruelty to animals and disorderly conduct following incident in Salem motel parking lot
A 33-year-old Litchfield man has been arrested for cruelty to animals and disorderly conduct following an incident in a Salem motel parking lot on November 6th. Salem Police say John Berkbigler was al...
Nov 10, 2022
Centralia woman escapes injury in Central City rollover crash
A 31-year-old Centralia woman escaped serious injury in a rollover crash in Central City Wednesday night. Central City Police Chief James Ramsey says Lindsay Brandt of South Hickory Street struck a pa...
Nov 10, 2022
