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MARION – The following information was released by the Marion Police Department on Tuesday, October 19, 2021. Amanda Johnson, 35 of Marion has been arrested for Aggravated Battery to a Police Officer, Resisting/Obstructing a Police Officer and Criminal Trespass to Property in the 900 block of West White Street on …

HARRISBURG – The Fowler Bonan Foundation is partnering with the Arby’s Foundation to support the Southern-based charity and their ongoing Clothes for SI Kids program. The Fowler Bonan Foundation has been named a grant recipient of the Arby’s Foundation annual fundraising efforts, with donations now being accepted at the Arby’s …

CARBONDALE – Carbondale Police need your help finding a missing man. Police say 45-year-old Lamont Chick was last seen at about 6 p.m. on Oct. 13 in the 300 block of South Marion Street in Carbondale. Lamont is a black male, standing 5’11” tall, weighing 200 pounds. He has brown …

CARMI – As part of It’s a White County Christmas, the annual Miss Merry Christmas Pageant will be held on November 6, 2021, at Downtown Theater Park in Carmi (in between The Print Shop and First Mid Bank drive-thru).  Baby Miss Merry Christmas contestants, ages 0-23 months, and Toddler Miss …

CARBONDALE, Ill. — The Southern Illinois Research Park at Southern Illinois University Carbondale has received a $150,000 award, one of just eight given across the country by the U.S. Small Business Administration, in the competitive, inaugural Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Catalyst prize competition. The award went to SIU’s Southern Illinois Research Park Corporation, …

BENTON – The Franklin County Sheriff’s Office needs your help finding a missing Orient man. Thirty-four-year-old Joshua R. Brock was last seen at noon on Saturday, Oct. 9 leaving his home in Orient on a bicycle. Family members have not spoken with him since then. Brock is a white male …

SOUTHERN ILLINOIS – Click on the links below to see the latest COVID-19 information from our local health departments.  Egyptian Health Department Franklin-Williamson Bi-County Health Department Hamilton County Health Department Jackson County Health Department Jefferson County Health Department Perry County Health Department Southern Seven Health Department Illinois Department of Public …