Category Archives: Local News

Illinois Comptroller: What Quincy Coroner Is Doing Should Be Illegal (Springfield, IL) -- The woman who pays Illinois' bills says there out to be a law against what Adams County's coroner is doing. Co...

The annual Toledo Spring Festival will be May 17th through 20th. They'll have live music, a carnival, vendor fair, beer tent, scavenger hunt, nightly prize drawings for kids, parade and much more. Vis...

Saturday is Stamp out Hunger day. Letter carriers will be picking up non-perishable foods to be donated to local food pantries. Please box up or bag up food items and leave by your mailbox by 8:00 a.m...

Trump: N. Korean Prisoners Released (Undated) -- Three Americans who'd been held in North Korea are on their way back to the U.S. President Trump tweeted this morning that they were on a plane with Se...

A three-year collective bargaining agreement for the Mattoon School District is now in place. The two sides approved the new deal last night. It includes an annual salary increase of 1.88-percent annu...

I-57 was reduced to a parking lot following serious accidents yesterday. Four people were injured, including one for life-threatening injuries as the wrecks shut down traffic between Pesotum and Tusco...

Sarah Bush Lincoln recently received the Award of Excellence in Employee Safety at the Illinois Risk Management Symposium (IRMS). The award is given annually to an IRMS hospital with the best overall ...

Lake Land College will celebrate 50 years of graduates at the annual commencement ceremony this Friday (5/11). The school's Radio-TV Broadcasting Club will be filming the ceremony. If you'd like to or...

If you're looking for work, or looking to change careers you can come out to the Salvation Army in Mattoon tomorrow, Wednesday, May 9th for their 2nd annual Job Fair from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. It's ...

According to a Recent Press Release from Illinois State Police District 10: Preliminary details indicate that Illinois State Police responded to two separate traffic crashes with serious injuries on I...