Category Archives: Local News

Police are active on scene on I-74 between Downs and Bloomington. According to preliminary reports from officers, the school bus collided head on with a Semi around 8:30 P.M. Wednesday evening. Traffi...

(Indianapolis, IN) -- The governing body of gymnastics in the United States is filing for bankruptcy protection as it tries to recover from a sexual abuse scandal. USA Gymnastics filed the paperwork i...

For Immediate Release Charleston Area Chamber of Commerce Selects New President and CEO The Charleston Area Chamber of Commerce (CACC) announced today they have completed the search for a permanent re...

50,000 Hens Die In Fire (Grant Park, IL) -- More than 50-thousand hens are dead after a fire Tuesday morning at an Illinois egg farm. The five-alarm blaze broke out around 2:30 a.m. in Grant Park, dam...

Last Weekend's Tornado Outbreak Set Illinois' December Record (Lincoln, IL) -- The weekend tornado outbreak across central Illinois is officially a record breaker. The National Weather Service yesterd...

Illinois State Board Of Education Eyes School Year Changes (Quincy, IL) -- Just how long school kids in Illinois will have to spend in the classroom could soon change. The Illinois State Board of Educ...

Not Hazing, But Oreo Run Earned Byron High School Players Suspensions (Byron, IL) -- School leaders in Byron say ten high school football players were not victims of hazing, but they did cross the lin...

Report: Fiber Cable Installation Leads To 2016 Canton Explosion (Canton, IL) -- Federal investigators are blaming Canton's deadly 2016 explosion on a company that was laying fiber optic cable. The Nat...

Illinois Certifies November Election Results (Springfield, IL) -- J.B. Pritzker is officially the governor of Illinois. The Illinois State Board of Elections yesterday certified the November election ...

Illinois State Police troopers are on the scene of a jack-knifed tractor trailer on I-57 southbound at milepost 198, between Mattoon and Arcola. Southbound traffic is being diverted into Arcola at mil...