Category Archives: Local News

Illinois Confirms First West Nile Death (Springfield, IL) -- A man in his 60s from LaSalle County is the first person to die from the West Nile virus in Illinois this year. The state's Department of P...

Student Arrested After Threat At Taylorville High School (Taylorville, IL) -- Students will be back in class, as usual, in Taylorville after a threat at the school yesterday. Taylorville Police say th...

Two men from Arthur and one from Arcola were killed in a crash on I-70 in the state of Kansas yesterday. Authorities say their pickup rear-ended a tractor-trailer, went into the ditch and became engul...

For Immediate Release Mosquitoes Collected in Jasper County Test Positive for West Nile Virus Newton, IL. - "Routine mosquito testing has identified the first West Nile virus positive batch of mosquit...

Douglas-Hart Nature Center will host Power our Planet, Saturday, September 8th from 1:00-3:00 p.m. They'll have a solar and wind expo and lots of kids activities, including a paper airplane contest, a...

Books and Babies will resume at the Charleston Carnegie Public Library on Thursdays, at 10:30-11:00 from September 13th through November 29th, in the Craft Room. There will be no program on November 2...

(Springfield, MO) -- The U.S. Coast Guard is claiming there is probable cause the captain of the duck boat that sank on July 19th in Branson, Missouri killing 17 people committed wrongdoing. It claims...

Two Terre Haute men are in custody following their arrest on multiple drug and gun charges. According to the Indiana State Police, 39-year-old Lewis Ross and 31-year-old Gary Makin were pulled over Tu...

SPRINGFIELD - With back-to-school time upon us, the Illinois Department of Revenue (IDOR) reminds taxpayers that they may be able to claim school expenses for their K-12 student on their 2018 Illinois...

SPRINGFIELD - Illinois art, Illinois food, Illinois history and Illinois travel - the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum will celebrate the state with a special "Made in Illinois Tea" on ...