Category Archives: Local News

According to the City of Bloomington (IL) Police Department facebook page, on 2-7-2018, Bloomington Police Department responded to a domestic call at 2213 Case St. at approximately 8:30 a.m. Informati...

According to the Coles Couty Sheriff's Office Facebook page, these individuals are wanted in Coles County. If you have information regarding the whereabouts of any of the individuals on the "Most Want...

According to a press release from MPD, Mattoon Police arrested Amy D. Valentino, 50 years of age of Mattoon, for the offenses of Disorderly Conduct and Threatening a Public Official. The arrest occurr...

According to a press release from MPD, Mattoon Police arrested Anthony A. Vaulltonburg, 29 years of age of Mattoon, for the offense of Domestic Battery. The arrest occurred on 2/6/18 at 6:37pm in the ...

Plan To Raise Illinois Smoking Age Advances At Statehouse (Springfield, IL) -- The plan to raise Illinois' smoking age to 21 is moving forward at the Illinois Capitol. Both House and Senate panels yes...

Ballot Challenge Is Delaying Early Voting In Illinois (Springfield, IL) -- Voters in Illinois are going to have to wait a tiny bit longer to cast an early ballot for the March primary. The Illinois St...

Struggle Continues To Finalize Illinois' New School Funding Plan (Springfield, IL) -- Illinois' school managers say they hope to start sending schools across the state the money from Illinois' new sch...

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

The Charleston Carnegie Public Library's Astronomy Night will meet on Tuesday, February 13th, at 6:00 p.m. in the Library parking lot if the sky is clear. Telescopes will be set up for participant's u...

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...