Category Archives: Local News

The Mattoon City Council will consider an agreement tonight (March 5) to hire retired Charleston Fire Chief Kris Phipps as interim chief for Mattoon. Under the proposed contract, Phipps would serve fr...

Southern Illinois Leaders Make Case For Campus, Interstate Improvements (Edwardsville, IL) -- Local leaders in southern Illinois want new and better roads, and want to see the state put more money int...

U Of I Students To Vote On Otter Mascot (Urbana, IL) -- There are a lot of people who cannot believe the University of Illinois may have an otter as its next mascot. Students will vote this week on wh...

Illinois Among 20 States Suing Over Planned Parenthood Funding (Chicago, IL) -- Add Illinois to the list of states suing to try and stop the Trump Administration from shifting money away from Planned ...

(Columbia, SC) -- Someone from South Carolina is claiming the largest lottery jackpot for a single winner in history. The state's lottery association says the sole winner of October's one-point-five-b...

SPRINGFIELD, IL - Recent winners of both ACM and CMA Vocal Group of the Year, Old Dominion will play the Illinois State Fair Grandstand on Thursday, August 15. Old Dominion returns to the State Fair G...

SPRINGFIELD, IL -- As a record number of tornado outbreaks in December clearly demonstrated, severe weather can happen at any time of the year. To help people better prepare for weather emergencies, I...

According to a recent press release from Illinois State Police District 12, Rosemary Rivera-Saravia, 45, of Gardner, KS was westbound along I-70, approximately one mile east of the Martinsville exit i...

After suffering a massive stroke on February 27th, actor Luke Perry has passed away at the age of 52. The following is a statement from his representative that was posted at People.com: "He was surrou...

CHARLESTON, IL- Alerts notified Charleston residence early Sunday morning of a shooting near the Eastern Illinois University campus. The university stated that a shooting had taken place in the 1400 b...