Category Archives: Local News

Illinois School Leaders Hope For Veto Of Minimum Teacher Pay (Springfield, IL) -- It's not that school leaders in Illinois don't want to pay new teachers more. It's that they can't afford it. The Illi...

An Effingham teen had to be extricated from his vehicle following an accident yesterday morning on Pembroke Avenue. The Effingham Police Department says the boy's vehicle ran off the street and rolled...

Teens, in Middle School and High School, can create custom buttons at the Charleston Carnegie Public Library's button making event on Tuesday, July 3rd, from 4:00-5:00pm. This is a free program and is...

The 24th annual Lake Shelbyville Dog Show will be held July 7th. Categories are: Best trick, best dressed, smallest dog, biggest dog, and most precious puppy. Dogs must be on a leash no longer than si...

An Ohio woman suffers minor injuries and is charged following a personal injury crash along I-70 west, near milepost 98 in Effingham Wednesday, June 20th. Preliminary details from Illinois State Polic...

(San Francisco, CA) -- Instagram is out with a new mobile app that allows users to post hour-long videos. The app is called IGTV and will feature user-generated videos from up and coming internet cele...

For Immediate Release (Rock Island) Jun. 20, 2018 - The Illinois Department of Human Rights (IDHR), in partnership with Western Illinois University and the Chicago Minority Supplier Development Counci...

For Immediate Release; June 20, 2018 On June 19, 2018, the South Eastern Illinois Drug Task Force (SEIDTF) obtained seven arrest warrants through the Marion County States Attorney's Office pursuant to...

For Immediate Release SPRINGFIELD (June 20, 2018) - Gov. Bruce Rauner today issued an executive order mandating that steps be taken to eliminate the backlog of over 1,000 cases at the Illinois Human R...

The Shelbyville Police Department is investigating four residential burglaries that occurred Monday night. According to Chief Tallman, the main concern is that in all cases, the residents were home at...