Category Archives: Local News

According to a press release from MPD, Mattoon Police arrested Demonte E. James, 27 years of age of Mattoon, for an active Coles County Warrant for failing to appear in court for a Possession of Metha...

A man is wanted for stealing air conditioners from the Effingham Walmart. According to the Effingham Police Department, the suspect is a middle-aged white man with a dark beard. He was driving a maroo...

The Flood Warning continues for the following river in Illinois, Little Wabash River below Clay City affecting Clay and Richland Counties. The following forecasts are based on observed precipitation, ...

SCOTUS Clears Way For Internet Taxes (Washington, DC) -- Online shopping will soon be getting more expensive. The U.S. Supreme Court is clearing the way to allow sales taxes when you buy something on ...

Rural Domestic Preparedness Consortium is bringing FREE Department of Homeland Security-certified course on Mass Fatalities Planning and Response to Monticello, IL Catastrophic disasters often impact ...

Ameren Illinois says more than fifty customers have received calls this week with the caller claiming to be from the company, followed by a threat of cutting off service if the homeowner doesn't make ...

Weekly Jobless Claims Fall To 218,000 (Undated) -- First time claims for unemployment benefits are down. According to numbers from the Labor Department this morning, 218-thousand Americans filed initi...

Koko, The Sign Language Gorilla, Dead At 46 (Woodside, CA) -- Koko, the gorilla who learned sign language, is dead. The 46-year-old western lowland gorilla died in her sleep Tuesday at the Gorilla Fou...

Rally In NYC Supporting Bill Banning Plastic Straws (New York, NY) -- New York City's proposed ban on plastic straws is getting another push today. Lawmakers are holding a noon Eastern time rally at C...

Dick Durbin: Foreign Hacking Illinois' Biggest Election Threat (Washington, DC) -- Illinois' senior U.S. senator says foreign hacking is the biggest threat to elections in the state and across the cou...