Category Archives: Local News

For Immediate Release Horizon Health Provides Resources for Parkinson's Disease (Paris, IL.)-Each April, Parkinson's Awareness Month is an opportune time to share tips and resources that help make lif...

Honda Recalling 323,000 Acura SUVs (Undated) -- Honda is recalling more than 320-thousand Acura SUVs because water can get into the tail lights and make them short out and stop working. Most of the af...

Here is the forecast for the Mattoon area from the National Weather Service as of 7am on Tuesday, April 9: Today: Sunny, with a high near 69. North northwest wind 8 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 20...

A substitute teacher has been banned from Dieterich Jr. Sr. High School after a student says he touched him and said sexually inappropriate things to him in a special education class. The school distr...

For Immediate Release "Along came Eastern"; Parker Valentine credits EIU with putting his life on a positive trajectory (Charleston, IL) - Parker Valentine is a twenty-five-year-old junior at Eastern ...

Lake Land College instructor named 2019 EIBEA Teacher of the Year Lake Land College instructor Marcy Satterwhite, Urbana, recently received the 2019 Teacher of the Year Award from the Eastern Illinois...

For Immediate Release Jesse White Brings Services to Campus; EIU Collegiate License Plate Available (Charleston, IL) -- Secretary of State Jesse White is alerting Eastern Illinois University students,...

Play examines Lincoln's assassination SPRINGFIELD - Two actors alone on a stage, trying to make sense of Abraham Lincoln's assassination. That's the simple but compelling premise of the play "One Dest...

For Immediate Release Consolidated Communications Announces the Death of Founding Director and Former Chairman Richard A. Lumpkin MATTOON, Ill. - Apr. 8, 2019 - Consolidated Communications is deeply s...

Huffman To Plead Guilty In Cheating Scandal (Boston, MA) -- Actress Felicity Huffman will plead guilty in the massive college admissions cheating scandal. The Massachusetts Department of Justice annou...