A 59-year-old Salem man faces multiple charges after allegedly failing to stop for a Marion County Sheriff's Deputy until he got home. Terry Beard of Trenary Street was given a notice to appear for possession of under five grams of meth, fleeing and eluding police, driving on a revoked license, disregarding a traffic control device and possession of drug paraphernalia.

The Illinois Supreme Court and the Illinois Judicial Conference have announced the launch of a statewide circuit court user survey. The anonymous survey will be conducted July 13 - July 31, 2026. It will be available in paper and electronic formats at circuit court courthouses across the state and will ask circuit court users about their most recent experience with the Illinois circuit courts. The survey is designed to be completed by all in-person and remote circuit court users, including pa...

Kaskaskia College was well represented at the 2026 Illinois Community College Trustees Association (ICCTA) Annual Banquet and Board of Representatives Meeting held June 5-6 at the Westin Chicago Lombard Hotel in Lombard, Illinois. Several Kaskaskia College representatives were recognized during the banquet for their leadership, service, and contributions to higher education. Among the highest honors presented was the Gary W. Davis Ethical Leadership Award, which was awarded to Kenneth Ingerso...

Seven people were shot, and five were killed in an East St. Louis shooting Sunday morning. State Police say the two still alive are in critical condition. All the victims are related. State Police announced at a press conference that two teens, 15 and 16-year-olds, are in custody. Both are related. Police were able to stop the suspect vehicle by using a PIT maneuver. One of the suspects is related to one of the persons killed. Illinois State Police said the shooting took place in three ...

A 21-year-old Okawville man has died from injuries sustained in a one vehicle accident early Saturday morning just west of Nashville. Washington County Coroner Mark Styinger pronounced Dusty Wilfong dead at the scene at 5:54 Saturday morning. Styninger says Wilfong was an unrestrained driver of a black pickup truck which appeared to be traveling westbound on Illinois Route 15 near Willow Creek Road when he ran off the roadway on the south side after negotiating the curve, striking the steep e...

The Marion County Sheriff's Department was successful in stopping a car that was taken during an armed hijacking in the city of Marion on Sunday morning. Sheriff Kevin Cripps says the sheriff's department joined the pursuit of the vehicle when it entered southern Marion County on I-57. He reports that an effort to flatten the tires with stop sticks in the construction zone in Southern Marion County was unsuccessful, but a second attempt at mile marker 118, two miles north of Salem, flattene...

The Marion County Sheriff's Department reports a 24-year-old Patoka man was injured in a single-vehicle rollover crash on Walnut Hill Road just east of U.S. 51, southeast of Centralia. Nicholas Back was taken via Lifestar Ambulance to SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital in Centralia for treatment of injury. The Centralia Fire Protection District was also called to assist. No details are yet available on how the crash occurred. The car crashed at 4:22 Saturday afternoon.

The Salem Fire Protection District was called out early Sunday morning to put out an illegal rubbish fire. Police had first tried to reach the residents at 1300 North Trenary. When no one answered, the fire department was called. The fire call came in at 1:59 Sunday morning. The Centralia City Fire Department was called to Dan's Meat Market at South Locust and 13th Street on Saturday morning when an outside grill caught fire. The fire was extinguished by the fire department and an employ...