Category Archives: Local News

UPDATED: Tour Bus Crash In GA (Columbia County, GA) -- A tour bus driver is being charged with DUI and several people on their way to see the Masters are hurt after their bus flipped near Augusta, Geo...

An Olney man has been indicted by a federal grand jury on methamphetamine-related charges. 35-year-old Justin Mason is charged with conspiring to distribute 50 grams or more of the drug. If convicted,...

What's that swimming in your water? An Aquatic Conservation Youth Program will be presented by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources for children grades K-6 at the Charleston Carnegie Public Li...

According to an email on Thursday, April 5th at 9:10am, the Moultrie County Rural Public Water District has lifted the boil order they had issued.

Marshall Avenue Christian Church to hold breakfast MATTOON - The Marshall Avenue Christian Church, located at 620 South 26th Street in Mattoon, is holding their annual MACC's Diner on Saturday, April ...

SIU Looks To Shift Money From Carbondale, To Edwardsville Campus (Carbondale, IL) -- Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville may soon not be called SIU's other campus. Trustees yesterday took up ...

Democrat Pritzker Promises To End Tax Credit Scholarship Program (Springfield, IL) -- J.B. Pritzker says he wants to send thousand of Illinois school kids back to the public schools that their parents...

State Farm To Discuss Future Of Its Former Bloomington Headquarters (Bloomington, IL) -- City planners in Bloomington should know more next week about one of their downtown's biggest empty buildings. ...

Tornadoes Hit Three Southern Illinois Counties, Damage Varies (Marion, IL) -- The damage from southern Illinois' brush with severe weather varies from a few trees down to a potentially expensive clean...

Don Sol Mexican Grill will have a Mattoon High School Project Graduation fundraiser April 27th. 10-percent of the day's sales will be donated to the cause. Dine-in or carry-out from 11:00 a.m. to 10:0...