Category Archives: Local News

The Kid's Chess Club will be meeting at the Mattoon Public Library on Saturday, February 24th from 10-11 a.m. The event is an opportunity for kids from grades 2-8 to play against players of their own ...

Baseball meets basketball February 10th at EIU. The Cardinals' mascot, Fredbird will be in attendance for the Panthers' doubleheader with Austin Pea. Beginning at halftime of the women's game, he'll b...

Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site will be celebrating Lincoln's birthday on Saturday, February 10th. They will be having a Saturday Story Series at 10:30 a.m. that features the children's book "Ab...

The next Make and Take event at the Charleston Carnegie Public Library will be a Valentine's Day themed one. It will be taking place on Saturday, February 10th, from 10:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m., or while sup...

Friday, February 9th and tonight more basketball continues. Competing for a Regional Championship in Girls' Basketball is Oblong and Brownstown/St. Elmo, while conference play continues in Boys' actio...

(Undated) -- Actor John Gavin is dead at the age of 86. Gavin is perhaps best known for his role as Sam Loomis in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho." He was also Julius Caesar in Stanley Kubrick's "Spartacus...

According to a press release posted on the Charleston School District website, today, February 9, 2018, "U.S. Marshalls contacted District officials yesterday with information that Adrian Rivas, an at...

SPRINGFIELD - The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum launched its celebration of Lincoln's birthday by announcing two major acquisitions: an angry letter the future president wrote to a c...

The Charleston Knights of Columbus will have their annual Lenten fish fry every Friday from February 16th to March 30th, starting at 4:30 at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church. They'll be serving fr...

Riddle Elementary School students in Mrs. Stuart's class are teaming up with the Mattoon High School Student Council to Block Out Hunger. They'll host a canned food drive at the final varsity basketba...