Category Archives: Local News

For Immediate Release MATTOON, Ill. - Sept. 10, 2018 - Consolidated Communications announced today on-site volunteer registration will be available at the Special Olympics Family Festival (SOFF) on Sa...

The Regional Office of Education #3 will have an informational meeting for potential substitute teachers from 2:00-3:00 p.m. on October 9th at the Effingham Unit #40 board room. There is no charge to ...

New charges have been filed in the case against Thomas Eich, the Mattoon man accused of supplying the drugs that led to the death of another Mattoon man. Eich, who was first charged with delivery of a...

A Mattoon man has been sentenced to four-years in prison for burglarizing the same Mattoon home for the second time in two-months. 20-year-old Austin Lee, who was on probation for the first incident r...

Outer Bands Of Hurricane Florence Reaches The Coast (Myrtle Beach, SC) -- The outer bands of Hurricane Florence are now brushing up against the Carolina coast. The National Hurricane Center says the w...

For Immediate Release Faber-Castell to Open Cosmetic Manufacturing Facility in Elgin ELGIN - Governor Bruce Rauner and Faber-Castell Cosmetics announced the company's first North American manufacturin...

Conservation Police Find Body of Sugar Creek Drowning Victim (Crawfordsville, IN) -- Indiana Conservation Police say they've found the body of a man who slipped below the water in Sugar Creek over the...

Illinois Secretary of State: Licenses Still Valid For Air Travel (Springfield, IL) -- Your Illinois driver's license will still be able to get you on a plane after October 10th. The IllinoisSecretary ...

Dixon Police Officer To Be Honored At Monday's Bears Game (Chicago, IL) -- The Dixon police officer who stopped a school shooting last spring will be honored at the next Chicago Bears game. The Bears ...

Enrollment Up At Two Of Three U Of I Campuses (Urbana, IL) -- Enrollment is up at two of the University of Illinois' three campuses. The school released its fall 2018 enrollment figures yesterday. U o...