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Paris Crestwood will play for the 8th grade state volleyball title tomorrow night. The Eagles took down St. Anne in the first round and Lexington in the semifinals to punch their ticket to the champio...

U.S. Representative John Shimkus will hold office hours from 10:30-noon tomorrow (3/22) at Lovington Village Hall. A Shimkus staff member will be on hand to answer questions.

Advocates are asking Illinois lawmakers to raise the statewide smoking age to 21-years-old. Chicago leaders voted last week to hike the smoking age in the city, and now lawmakers are looking to follow...

Illinois is once again being labeled the worst state to be a taxpayer. A new report by WalletHub reveals Illinois has the highest effective total state and local tax rate in the country. It's the seco...

Senate Democrats are pushing forward a partial spending plan as the state continues to deal with a budget crisis. Lawmakers approved a measure that would provide nearly four-billion dollars to pay for...

A new proposal could make sure officers gets to retire with their K-9. Currently, there is not a state law that allows an officer to retire with their four-legged assistant; instead, it is up the depa...

Nearly five kids are hit by cars every day near schools in Illinois. With that in mind, one lawmaker wants to enforce speed cameras within school zones. A new bill being discussed among Illinois lawma...

According to WCIA online, when students or teachers left for spring break on the University of Illinois campus, there was a rise in burglaries. The worst part is that most didn't know if happened unti...

State Comptroller Leslie Munger says that when it comes to the state's stack of unpaid bills, the bad news is getting worse. She told a Senate committee that the backlog of seven-point-six-billion-dol...

The Mattoon Fire Department will hold a memorial dedication to honor the 50th anniversary of the accident that took the life of Robert Demars and injured several other firefighters. The dedication wil...