The ribbon is cut on the new Centralia Dog Park on Saturday. Photo by Caden Cole. After only six months of hard work and fundraising, the Centralia dog park fundraising committee cut the ribbon Saturday at the grand opening of the Dog park at old Evers Field off Calumet Street. The committee exceeded their goal…… Read More »
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A suburban Chicago man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for using identities stolen from the dark web to defraud businesses of more than $600,000. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Springfield says 25-year-old Keith Offord of Carpentersville also was ordered Friday to pay $600,549 in restitution. Offord was convicted…… Read More »
OAK LAWN, Ill. (AP) — Two hospitals in a Chicago suburb are sending home an opioid-overdose antidote with patients who seek treatment for opioid overdoses or addictions. Advocate Christ Medical Center and Advocate Children’s Hospital in Oak Lawn recently started giving naloxone kits to patients who come to their emergency rooms for help regarding opioids,…… Read More »
Five occupants of a car were injured Saturday morning when a car and pickup truck crashed at the Route 37-Dix/Irvington Road intersection in Dix. Jefferson County Sheriff’s Deputies say 78-year-old Joyce Dunbar of Woodglen Lane in Mt. Vernon had pulled from the Dix-Irvington Road onto Route 37 after stopping at the stop sign into the…… Read More »
President Donald Trump is coming to Southern Illinois on Saturday. Congressman Mike Bost, who represents Jefferson County as well as parts of the Metro-East and Southern Illinois, says the President will visit for a campaign rally on his behalf. Bost says he is honored to have the President visit Southern Illinois. He notes President Trump…… Read More »
The Salem Wildcats received the 15th seed in the 4a playoffs and will head to the 2nd seeded unbeaten Paris Tigers for a Saturday kickoff at 2 pm. Salem and Paris were in the Apollo together starting in 2003 when the Tigers were Salem’s first conference opponent. The winner will play either Effingham or Mater…
