3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (151+ words) A 62-year-old Patoka man was flown to a St. Louis Hospital after his car ran off Hawthorn Road east of the bridge near Freeman Road on the northwest side of Salem early Wednesday evening. Salem Police say the car driven…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (370+ words) The Salem City Council Tuesday night agreed to appropriate $188,022 for design and construction engineering costs of Maverick Street that would open up the southwest quadrant of the I-57 and West Main Street for development. The new street would begin on West…...

1+ week, 14+ hour ago   (81+ words) southernillinoisnow.com Salem Fire Protection District fights small grass fire The Salem Fire Protection District was called to a small grass fire on the Mark Huelsmann property in the 3200 block of Cumberland Lane on Lake Centralia early Saturday night. Fire…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (158+ words) An electrical fire damaged a home in Dix Friday morning. Jefferson Fire reports smoke was showing from the attic of the home owned by Angela Wilson and occupied by Aaron Wilson at 412 North Jackson when they arrived on the scene....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (295+ words) (NEW YORK) — A 23-year-old man wanted in the fatal shooting of a Georgia police officer has been found after a manhunt ensued. Jimmie Steverson, 23, is believed to have shot Chris Fisher, a Warm Springs Police Department officer, who was killed…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (524+ words) (NEW YORK) — The parents of a 5-year-old girl who was found dead after being reported missing in South Carolina have been arrested in connection with her death, with arrest warrants alleging they misled authorities during the search for their autistic child....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (162+ words) A 24-year-old Centralia man has been charged in Marion County Court with three counts of harassment through electronic communications. Ethin Julian of Hickory Meadows is accused of threatening injury and threatening to kill or injure a woman in the text…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (122+ words) southernillinoisnow.com Salem Fire and United Medical help woman with medical problems A report of an accident on Lazy Acres Road southwest of Salem Wednesday morning turned out to be a woman who ran off the road into a ditch…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (118+ words) State Police say one person was hurt when a van collided with a semi trailer on U.S. 51 at East Lair in Vernon Tuesday afternoon. Preliminary investigation indicates the van was traveling northbound on US 51 directly behind the semi. The semi was…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (165+ words) There will be a write-in candidate for sheriff as Cody Rose still wants voters to have an opportunity to vote for him. After Sheriff Kevin Cripps announced he was withdrawing as a candidate for re-election, Rose announced as a candidate…...