Category Archives: Local News
Today Is National Voter Registration Day
Today Is National Voter Registration Day (Undated) -- The midterm elections are six weeks away and today is National Voter Registration Day. The commemoration on the fourth Tuesday of September aims t...
Sep 25, 2018 League of Women Voters of California LWVC / CC
Lawmakers To Meet About Lincoln Hat, Likely Not Till November
Lawmakers To Meet About Lincoln Hat, Likely Not Till November (Springfield, IL) -- Illinois lawmakers say they will hold formal hearings into whether the multi-million dollar hat at the Abraham Lincol...
Sep 25, 2018
Hazardous Weather Outlook from the National Weather Service
This Hazardous Weather Outlook, from the National Weather Service, is for portions of central Illinois, east central Illinois, southeast Illinois and west central Illinois including Cass-Champaign-Chr...
Sep 25, 2018
Suspect In U of I Scholar's Death May Present Mental Health defense
Suspect In U of I Scholar's Death May Present Mental Health defense (Urbana, IL) -- A new motion may give a hint as to what the lawyers for the man accused of killing a Chinese-born U of I scholar are...
Sep 25, 2018
Frontier Airlines Start Flights From Bloomington-Normal
Frontier Airlines Start Flights From Bloomington-Normal (Bloomington, IL) -- Flyers in central Illinois have another option. Frontier Airlines started their new flights from Bloomington-Normal to Denv...
Sep 25, 2018 Cliff / CC
St. Louis Overtakes Detroit As Nation's Most Violent Big City
St. Louis Overtakes Detroit As Nation's Most Violent Big City (Detroit, MI) -- Detroit is no longer America's most violent city based on FBI crime data. St. Louis, Missouri has moved ahead of Motown f...
Sep 25, 2018
Scrabble Adds 300 New Words To Its Dictionary
Scrabble Adds 300 New Words To Its Dictionary (Undated) -- Scrabble is adding 300 new words to its official dictionary. The newest game edition was released yesterday and added long-awaited words like...
Sep 25, 2018 Andy / Andrew Fogg / CC
Certain Illinois Counties Prohibiting Antlerless Deer Hunting
Hunters are prohibited from harvesting antlerless deer during the first 15 days of the Illinois Archery Deer Season in five east-central Illinois counties as part of an effort to grow the deer herd in...
Sep 25, 2018
NU Running Back Retires After Cervical Stenosis Diagnosis
NU Running Back Retires After Cervical Stenosis Diagnosis (Evanston, IL) -- Northwestern running back Jeremy Larkin is hanging up his cleats. The sophomore football player was recently diagnosed with ...
Sep 24, 2018 Vox Efx / CC
Cosby's Sentence To Be Handed Down Tomorrow
Cosby's Sentence To Be Handed Down Tomorrow (Norristown, PA) -- Comedian Bill Cosby will learn his fate tomorrow. He will find out how much time, if any, he will have to serve for drugging and sexuall...
Sep 24, 2018
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