Category Archives: Local News

U Of I Student Shot By Police (Champaign, IL) -- A U of I student shot by police is recovering. Investigators say the 23-year-old was armed last night and ignored orders to drop the gun. He was shot i...

State Labor Relations Board Orders Officials To Explain Delays In Union Raises (Springfield, IL) -- State officials have just 20 days to explain to the Illinois Labor Relations Board the reasons for l...

Decatur City Council To Consider Internal Candidate For Interim City Manager (Decatur, IL) -- Decatur Deputy City Manager Billy Tyus will be considered for a promotion to interim city manager Monday n...

Rauner Launches Term Limits Initiative (Marion, IL) -- Governor Rauner doesn't think people like state House Speaker Mike Madigan should stay in office for decades. He launched a new initiative called...

The annual Strasburg Lions Club Homecoming is July 20th through 22nd. Highlights include: truck and tractor pulls; strongman and strongwoman competitions; parade; 5k; beer garden; and pulled pork and ...

(Chicago, IL) -- An outbreak of a stomach bug is being linked to McDonald's salads. Officials in Illinois have reported 90 cases of cyclospora since May and Iowa has recorded 15 since late June. Illin...

(Undated) -- Twitter is purging millions of suspicious or dormant accounts. The company's CEO Jack Dorsey warned that some people may see their follower counts drop because of the action. The clean-up...

Today, Friday the 13th, so see if luck's on your side with another Cornbelt Shrine Club Queen of Hearts Drawing at the Charleston Moose Lodge. The jackpot will be more than $250,000! Half will go to t...

(St. Louis, MO) -- Johnson & Johnson is being ordered to pay over four-billion dollars in a Missouri asbestos cancer case. Today, a jury in Missouri ruled that the company must pay the four-billio...

A Rantoul man faces two charges following a Rollover Semi Traffic Crash, Wednesday, July 11th around 5:12 p.m. According to preliminary details from Illinois State Police District 10, Gary Lawson was ...