Category Archives: Local News

July 1, 2018 7:50PM The National Weather Service in Lincoln has issued a flash flood warning for Fayette county until 2:00 AM. Use caution when traveling along Interstate 55 between exits 30 and 63, a...

EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... * TEMPERATURE...High temperatures will once again climb into the lower to middle 90s today. * HEAT INDEX VALUES...Heat index val...

Authors who took readers from the deserts of Mars to the snows of Kilimanjaro and from Chicago's streets to Africa's jungles were named the top Illinois authors by voters participating in the Illinois...

Forecasters says the Fourth of July heat wave could be dangerous. Large parts of the country will be sweltering with thick humidity and temperatures near and above 100 degrees over the holidays. A hea...

For Immediate Release - from the Governor's Office SPRINGFIELD (June 29, 2018) - Gov. Bruce Rauner today signed important education legislation to ease Illinois' acute teacher shortage and expand a su...

SPRINGFIELD - With hot weather with high humidity forecasted for the next several days, Illinois Department of Public Health Director Nirav D. Shah, M.D. is reminding people about the importance of st...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ILLINOIS STATE POLICE ANNOUNCE THE USE OF ROADSIDE SAFETY CHECKS EFFINGHAM - Illinois State Police (ISP) District 12 Commander, Captain Cory Ristvedt, announces the ISP will cond...

Canada To Impose Tariffs On U.S. Goods (Ottawa) -- Canada plans to retaliate against President Trump's tariffs on its national birthday this Sunday. "Bloomberg" says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will...

Man Sentenced To Prison For Having Thousands Of Pills (Urbana, IL) -- A Champaign man is heading to prison for five years for having an "astonishing" amount of prescription drugs. A judge sentenced Ro...

Search For Missing Hunter To Resume Saturday (Sangamon County, IL) -- The search for missing arrowhead hunter Michael W. Schmidt will resume Saturday. The Missing Person Awareness Network will pick it...