Category Archives: Local News

A Terre Haute man is facing a murder charge following a stabbing yesterday. Paramedics responded to a call of an unconscious man on the porch of a residence on South 9th Street. He was taken to Union ...

Governor J.B. Pritzker is issuing over eleven-thousand pardons for people with low-level cannabis convictions. The pardons are the beginning of the first wave of cannabis expungements that happened on...

A lawsuit against University of Illinois social workers and Brendt Christensen is being dismissed. The suit was brought by the estate of Yingying Zhang, a visiting scholar from China who was kidnapped...

Regulations protecting the Mahomet Aquifer from future contamination are in effect. Senator Scott Bennett was one of the sponsors for the bill that will require the IEPA to investigate landfills at ri...

Recreational marijuana is officially legal in Illinois. People looking to buy cannabis lined up at dispensaries across the state yesterday. Many waited for three-hours to make their first legal purcha...

For Immediate Release IDVA and IDPH Investigating Legionnaires' Disease Case at Illinois Veterans Home - Quincy SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois Department of Veterans' Affairs (IDVA) and the Illinois Depar...

'Friends' Leaves Netflix In A Few Hours (Undated) -- The hit sitcom "Friends" will be leaving Netflix in a few hours and will not be available to stream for months. The popular streaming service lost ...

For Immediate Release Make a Resolution to Drive Sober, Buckle Up SPRINGFIELD - With 2019 coming to an end and Illinois motor vehicle fatalities down from last year, the Illinois Department of Transpo...

One person was injured in a crash in Crawford County Saturday night. According to the Illinois State Police, 22-year-old Alisha Levingston, of Bicknell, Indiana was northbound on Route 33 when she los...

The Effingham VFW's first meal of the New Year will be Friday, January 3 from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. They'll be serving liver and onions, or poor man's steak, with mashed potatoes and gravy, vegetable, dev...