The Illinois Department of Public Health is reporting 4,000 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday. That brings the total number of cases to nearly 383-thousand in Illinois, with more than 95-hundred deaths. Over half of the state’s regions including Southern Illinois and the Metro East are under stricter mitigations like no indoor dining because of rising…… Read More »
The Illinois Department of Corrections has confirmed the first inmate has died at the Centralia Correctional Center as a result of a COVID-19 related illness. Spokesperson Lindsey Hess says the inmate was in his 60s and died at a hospital on October 26th. She reports the prison has now had 48 offenders and 15 staff…… Read More »
The Marion County Health Department is reporting 20 new positive cases of the coronavirus disease on Tuesday. Health Department Administrator Melissa Mallow says one of the cases is a long-term care resident and three are in school. The department is in the process of doing the contact tracing on the students. Of the new cases,…… Read More »
Four people have been brought to the Marion County Jail on outstanding warrants. 58-year-old Faith Moon of Glenwood Acres was arrested by Salem Police on a Marion County felony failure to appear warrant on a possession of controlled substance charge. Bond is set at $10,000. 26-year-old Danielle Brown Ruepke of North Beech in Centralia was…… Read More »
A grain truck that was on fire was driven to the Kell Fire Station on Sunday afternoon to be extinguished. Kell Firemen say there was a small fire under the dash when Brad Boyles of Briarcroft Road in Iuka drove the truck up to the fire station after calling the department as he was approaching…… Read More »
Salem grad Damond Crosby and the Indiana University Northwest Redhawks opened their hoops season splitting a pair of games this weekend. They defeated Waldorf University 89-77. Crosby finished with 12 points and 5 rebounds. He then scored 5 points and pulled down 7 boards in their 89-86 loss to East-West.
With the junior high cross country season in the books, special recognition going out to Fairfield 8th grader Ella Sager. The Salem regional individual champion made school history going undefeated all season and being the Class L State champion. A very impressive accomplishment, congratulations to Ella Sager.
