Category Archives: Local News

Coles County Clerk Sue Rennels reminds voters that Early Voting for the November 6, 2018 General Election is now available. Any voter interested in voting early may cast their ballot at the County Cle...

Las Vegas Strip To Go Dark In Honor Of Shooting Victims (Las Vegas, NV) -- The Las Vegas Strip is going dark today on the one-year-anniversary of the mass shooting that left 58 people dead at a countr...

USDA: Illinois Likely Over-Issued Food Stamps (Springfield, IL) -- Federal regulators are warning the state of Illinois about the number of people in the state on food stamps. The USDA sent a letter t...

Macon County Sheriff Warning Of Phone Scam (Decatur, IL) -- The real sheriff's office in Macon County doesn't call about missed traffic court date, and they certainly don't take pre-paid visa cards as...

Illinois' Next Top 200 List Focuses On Groundbreaking Women (Springfield, IL) -- Illinois' next Top 200 list could be one of the toughest. Illinois' bicentennial best-of voters are picking the state's...

The Mattoon Area Family YMCA, in partnership with registered dieticians from the Center for Healthy Living at Sarah Bush Lincoln, are offering nutrition classes October 23rd and December 4th at 6:00 p...

The City of Mattoon will be conducting mosquito fogging this week (10/8-14). The fogging will be done Monday through Thursday.

(Menlo Park, CA) -- Nearly 50-million Facebook users may have had their information hacked. Included in that number was Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and th...

The MLB regular season is not over after 162 games. Four teams will be in action Monday to decide a pair of division crowns. The Chicago Cubs and Milwaukee Brewers will meet at Wrigley Field to decide...

(Los Angeles, CA) -- Thursday's dramatic Brett Kavanaugh hearing was a big hit with TV viewers. The Nielsen ratings company said nearly 20-and-a-half-million people watched the nine hours of coverage ...