Category Archives: Local News

Colorado Lawmakers To Consider Concealed Carry At Schools (Denver, CO) -- Colorado lawmakers will take on the gun debate this afternoon. House Republicans are pushing a bill that would allow anyone wi...

Madigan Agrees To Cooperate With Campaign Sexual Harassment Probe (Springfield, IL) -- The top Democrat in Illinois says he will cooperate with a review of sexual harassment policies in his political ...

Quincy Veterans Home Managers Skip Statehouse Legionnaires Disease (Springfield, IL) -- A handful of Illinois lawmakers are fuming after the managers at Illinois' veterans home in Quincy blew-off a st...

Treasure Hunt Leads To Illinois Man's Death In Montana (Billings, MT) -- Authorities in Montana say an Illinois man died on a treasure hunt. Investigators at Yellowstone this week said Jeff Murphy fro...

Evangelist Billy Graham Dead At 99 (Charlotte, NC) -- Evangelist Billy Graham is dead at age 99. The well-known minister was born in Charlotte, North Carolina in November 1918. He grew up with three s...

The James Todd Shafer trial will get underway today in Charleston. Shafer is charged with first-degree murder and other offenses in connection with the shooting death of Ciara Faires. Shawn Adamson, w...

Lonestar will be the big performance at Red, White and Blue Days this summer! The band will perform a free show at 8:00 p.m. on July 3rd at Morton Park. FREE CONCERT LINEUP: July 3 - 6PM - Jason Bertr...

Carriage Crossing Living of Arcola will host a free senior health fair on Monday, March 5th from 10am to 3pm. Sarah Bush Lincoln will be there with blood pressure checks, Genesis Rehabilitation will o...

Eastern Illinois University's award-winning Omega Psi Phi fraternity will perform a step show in the Luther Student Center Theater at Lake Land College on February 26th at 6:30 p.m. It's free and open...

The National Weather Service in Lincoln has issued a Flood Warning for Edgar, Moultrie, Piatt, De Witt, Vermilion, McLean, Champaign, and Douglas counties until 1:15 pm. A Flood Warning means that flo...