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Police Beat for Saturday, September 27th, 2025
Centralia Police have arrested a 40-year-old Centralia woman for home invasion. Jessica Roper of North Lincoln was taken to the Marion County Jail. No other details are available. Marion County Sherif...
Sep 27, 2025
2025 09/23 - Richard Lewis Hays
Richard Lewis Hays, age 61, of Central City, Illinois, and formerly of Kinmundy, passed away at 11:53 am, Wednesday, September 17, 2025, at Fairfield Memorial Hospital, Fairfield, Illinois. Richard wa...
Sep 20, 2025
US Steel changes course and will keep processing raw steel at Granite City plant in Illinois
By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - U.S. Steel reversed course and said Friday that it will continue processing raw steel at its Granite City Works plant in Illinois, nixing a decisio...
Sep 20, 2025 FILE - Rolls of finished steel are seen at the U.S. Steel Granite City Works facility Thursday, June 28, 2018, in Granite City, Ill. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)
ICE denies using excessive force as it broadens immigration arrests in Chicago
By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press PARK RIDGE, Ill. (AP) - It was 3:30 a.m. when 10 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers gathered in a parking lot in the Chicago suburbs for a briefing a...
Sep 20, 2025 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents make an arrest during an early morning operation in Park Ridge, Ill., Friday, Sept. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)
Crime victims' families say Chicago violence is a problem, but sending in troops isn't the answer
By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press Delphine Cherry knows as well as anyone how intractable violent crime is in Chicago. In 1992, her teenage daughter was gunned down in one of the city's toniest neigh...
Sep 20, 2025 Signs are posted in front of Delphine Cherry's home Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in Hazel Crest, Ill. Cherry lost two children, Tyler Randolph, and Tyesa Abney, to shootings in and near Chicago. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar, a popular two-term Republican, dies at 79
CHICAGO (AP) - Former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar, a popular two-term Republican credited with guiding the state into a period of greater financial stability in the 1990s, died Sunday, according to his fa...
Sep 15, 2025 FILE - Former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar speaks during a campaign rally outside the state Capitol on Nov. 3, 2014, in Springfield, Ill. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)
SSM Health in Southern Illinois welcomes new foundation board members
SSM Health in Southern Illinois has announced the appointment of three community leaders to the boards of the SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation and the SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital Found...
Sep 09, 2025
35th Annual Antique Power Days attracts good crowd
The 35th Annual Antique Power Days held at the Marion County Grounds had a good year, attracting around 3,500 over the three day event. Southern Illinois Antique Power Day President Kevin Tolka says a...
Sep 08, 2025 Line of tractors displayed at Antique Power Days. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Police Beat for Sunday, September 7th, 2025
Central City Police arrested 33-year-old Sarah Bushong of North Park in Central City for alleged domestic battery. She was taken to the Marion County Jail to await a final decision on charges. A 35-ye...
Sep 07, 2025
Police Beat for Sunday, August 24th, 2025
Initial information indicates no one was injured when a vehicle ran off the 600 block of Davis and struck a house and tree early Sunday morning. The driver reportedly left the scene, but was later loc...
Aug 24, 2025
