Category Archives: Local News
Salem Super Cruise set for Saturday behind Super 8 Motel
The 33rd Annual Salem Super Cruise car show is set for Saturday behind the Salem Super Eight Motel off North Hotze Road. Organizer Ken Carpenter is hopeful of having more than 100 vehicles this year i...
Sep 09, 2022
Sleep in Heavenly Peace holding Bed Build Saturday
The Salem Chapter Sleep in Heavenly Peace will join Bunks Across America on Saturday with a bed build at their new location in the old Save-a-Lot building at 406 West Main Street. President Kevin Rake...
Sep 09, 2022 The Salem Elks parking lot is turned into a bed build operation for Sleep in Heavenly Peace in June. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Alma man sentenced to nearly 16 years in federal prison
A 46-year-old Alma man has been sentenced to nearly 16 years in federal prison on drug and weapons charges. John Doyle of the 4500 block of Kinoka Road admitted to three counts of distribution of a co...
Sep 08, 2022
Carlyle man pleads guilty to two predatory criminal sexual assault charges
A 30-year-old Carlyle man has pleaded guilty in Clinton County Court to two Class X felony counts of predatory criminal sexual assault. As part of the plea agreement, two other charges of aggravated c...
Sep 08, 2022
Two children checked for injuries following Rome Grade School bus accident
Two students on a Rome Grade School Bus headed home Wednesday afternoon were checked for injuries after a minor accident involving the bus and a truck with an oversized load. The incident occurred on ...
Sep 08, 2022 Tomash Devenishek / CC
32nd Annual Antique Power Days kicks off at Marion County Fairgrounds
The 32nd Annual Antique Power Days opens at the Marion County Fairgrounds on Thursday and continues through Sunday. One of the coordinators Sean Earle says activities get underway at nine Thursday mor...
Sep 08, 2022 Antique Power Days will include hundreds of old tractors and farm equipment on display.
Salem Mayor Nic Farley to seek re-election; Amy Troutt won't run for council
Salem Mayor Nic Farley has announced he will be a candidate for re-election in the April municipal election. Appointed City Councilwoman Amy Troutt has announced she will not seek election. Farley has...
Sep 08, 2022 Salem Mayor Nic Farley
Centralia Police arrest two on felony drug charges
Centralia Police have arrested two persons on felony drug charges. 41-year-old Todd Goremann of North Elm in Centralia was arrested for alleged manufacture or delivery of a controlled substance, posse...
Sep 08, 2022
Police Beat for Thursday, September 8th, 2022
Centralia Police have arrested a 46-year-old Centralia man on multiple charges. Kenneth Fair of East McCord is being held in the Marion County Jail for alleged domestic battery, criminal trespass to s...
Sep 08, 2022
Judge OKs $9.25M settlement between Chicago schools, union
CHICAGO (AP) - A federal judge has approved a $9.25 million settlement by the Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union in two long-running lawsuits stemming from the layoffs of hundreds o...
Sep 08, 2022
