Category Archives: Local News

For Immediate Release Warning About Unproven Stem Cell Therapies SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH), along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is warn...

For Immediate Release Mattoon Express Office Earns Top Awards at International Leadership Conference Mattoon, IL 03/02/2019-Express Employment Professionals of Mattoon earned top honors at the staffin...

For Immediate Release Sales Date Announced for Tickets to 2019 Illinois State Fair Grandstand Concerts SPRINGFIELD, IL - The countdown is on! Tickets go on sale April 20 to this summer's highly antici...

For Immediate Release Winter Planting at the USDA Forest Service's Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie WILMINGTON, Ill. (March 7, 2019) At the USDA Forest Service's Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, ...

5th Anniversary Of Malaysian Airliner Disappearance (Kuala Lumpur) -- Today marks five years since a Malaysia Airlines jet disappeared on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. More than 230 passenger...

Don't Forget Your Smoke Detector Batteries This Weekend (Springfield, IL) -- Add some batteries to your shopping list this weekend. The Illinois State Fire Marshal is reminding folks to change the bat...

Governor Pritzker Releases Progressive Tax Brackets (Springfield, IL) -- If you make less than 250 thousand-dollars a year, your tax bill will either go down or stay flat under Governor JB Pritzker's ...

Southern Illinois National Guard Soldier Killed In Kuwait Wreck (Pinckneyville, IL) -- Friends and family members in southern Illinois are mourning the loss of a National Guard soldier killed in a wre...

Report: WIU To Trim More Programs (Macomb, IL) -- About a week after Western Illinois University laid off 130 professors and other campus workers, the school is reportedly looking to make more cuts. W...

Deputy Dead, Suspect Arrested After Shooting, Multi-County Chase (Lincoln, IL) -- A northern Illinois deputy is dead and a suspect is sitting in a central Illinois jail cell after a day long chase and...