The Centralia City Council voted on Monday to approve an amendment to a development agreement with Re:purpose Development allowing for an additional $160,000 in TIF reimbursements. That number is added to the existing reimbursement of $160,000. The maximum amount of reimbursement remains at $375,000. The increased reimbursement supports the company's development of the property at 102 East Broadway as part of the Winery Block project. Re:purpose Development has developed several downtown loc...

Centralia Police are investigating a burglary to a vacant business building in the 300 block of East Broadway. At the time of the report, it wasn't known if those responsible were still inside. However, a search of the building failed to find anyone. A bag of tools was found along a fence. Centralia Police received a report of an air conditioning unit being taken from outside another vacant business building in the 300 block of West Broadway.

A federal district judge added 224 months of federal imprisonment to the sentence of a federal correctional center inmate at Marion after he admitted to producing hand-drawn child sexual abuse material while incarcerated. 42-year-old Christopher L. Collins, also known as "Beetlejuice", pleaded guilty to two counts of Production of Obscene Visual Representations of the Sexual Abuse of Children and one count of Possession of Obscene Visual Representations of the Sexual Abuse of Childr...

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) - Two teenagers were charged with murder Tuesday in the killings of five members of an Illinois family who were shot at three different locations. A 16-year-old boy will be prosecuted as an adult, while the case against a 15-year-old girl will begin in juvenile court, with a possible transfer to the St. Clair County criminal court, the county prosecutor's office said. Five people were killed, and two more were wounded, primarily on Sunday, in a "targeted mass s...

An 18-year-old Centralia man has been arrested on multiple warrants by Centralia Police. Demarco Smith of South Hickory was taken to the Marion County Jail on two Marion County juvenile warrants and a Berkley County, Missouri warrant. 21-year-old Payton Potter of East 3rd in Kinmundy was arrested by Salem Police for allegedly driving under the influence and illegal transportation of liquor.

Murray Center held a 250th Anniversary patriotic parade on Friday, July 10th. The parade was led by a group of Murray residents holding the American flag and a 250th Anniversary banner. Each cottage was represented in the parade with decorated side by sides, jeeps, or golf carts. Families joined the fun with decorated cars, and trailers. The Murray Parents Association decorated their trailer and a large group of individuals rode on the trailer waving American flags. The Centralia Fire Depart...

A Centralia woman was rescued by a boater near the dam on Raccoon Lake after her kayak capsized Sunday afternoon. The Centralia City Fire Department was called to assist, but the woman was in the boat upon their arrival. She was transported to Point Park to be checked by emergency medical technicians but did not appear to have been injured. Only the nose of the kayak was out of the water when emergency help arrived.

The Marion County Sheriff's Department has released more information on a single vehicle rollover crash on the Walnut Hill Road just east of U.S. 51 southeast of Centralia late Saturday afternoon. Reports indicate Nicholas Back left the north side of the of the road, jumped a culvert, and rolled the vehicle. He was out of the vehicle on the arrival of emergency help. Back was taken via Lifestar Ambulance to SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital for treatment of a head injury. An Air Evac helicopter...