Category Archives: Local News

U.S. Senate May Allow Babies After Illinois' Duckworth Delivers Daughter (Washington, DC) -- The U.S. senate may soon have the Duckworth rule. The nation's upper chamber is considering a rule change t...

Not Guilty Pleas From Decatur Coaches On Sex Charges (Decatur, IL) -- A pair of coaches in Decatur are pleading not guilty to charges that they tried to groom a child for sex. Macon County prosecutors...

Rodney Davis Applauds Farm Bill First Step (Washington, DC) -- Central Illinois congressman Rodney Davis says he's hopeful the reforms in the new federal farm bill will become law. Davis yesterday sai...

No Ban On Illinois Youth Tackle Football This Spring (Springfield, IL) -- Youth league football coaches across Illinois can breathe a bit easier. The author of a plan to ban tackle football for anyone...

The next Embarras Volunteer Stewards conservation day is this Saturday (4/21) at Embarras Ridges at 9am. Take Route 130 south from Charleston to County Road 1470 North, and follow the road for about a...

A Trilla man was sentenced to six-years in prison for selling meth and choking a woman. Another battery charge against 27-year-old Tyler Lovekamp was dismissed with his guilty plea to the other two ch...

24-year-old Stephen Bennett, of Mattoon was ordered to pay $12,000 in restitution after admitting to cashing stolen checks. Bennett was also ordered to have no future contact with the woman for whom h...

Following the lead of Effingham County, the Jasper County Board passed a resolution opposing gun restrictions. The "sanctuary county" status was put in place in the event the State of Illinois infring...

Carson's has confirmed their will shut down their department stores by late summer, including the store at the Cross County Mall in Mattoon. After parent company Bon-Ton Stores failed to find a bidder...

The National Weather Service in Lincoln has issued a Freeze Warning, which is in effect from 1 AM to 8 AM CDT Friday for Cumberland-Clark-Effingham-Jasper-Crawford-Clay-Richland-Lawrence and Fayette c...