Retiring Salem police chief Susan Miller says she wanted to be a police officer from the age of six when her dad retired ...

An 18-year-old Dix man has been arrested for aggravated domestic battery, criminal damage to property and resisting arrest ...

MT. VERNON, Ill. (WSIL) -- A 46-year-old woman is dead after a house fire in Mt. Vernon this morning. The Jefferson County ...

At 7:30 p.m., miners in the deep galleries of Illinois’ New Orient Coal Mine ... As night wore on, state police set up roadblocks, and stopped cars to allow free access to ambulances, and ...

Four semi-automatic handguns, two semi-automatic rifles and a shotgun, plus ammunition, were recovered Friday afternoon after ...

The Police Department arrested two Idaho residents on Friday after receiving information that they, along with one other person, were attempting to sell firearms and marijuana, according to a news ...

Centralia, Illinois defeated visiting Marion 49-43 Saturday. Centralia, Illinois (11-2) will host Mascoutah on Saturday, January 11 at noon. Marion (11-4) will host Mount Vernon, Illinois on Friday at ...

A fraud investigation was launched Tuesday after a woman was nearly scammed out of $15,000, according to Centralia police. Police say a person pretending to work for the woman’s bank contacted ...

Four semi-automatic handguns, two semi-automatic rifles and a shotgun, plus ammunition, were recovered Friday afternoon after Centralia police arrested a man and woman from Idaho, the department ...