Category Archives: Local News

Lake Land College's Adult Education is offering GED classes throughout the Lake Land College district beginning the first week of March. The class orientation locations and dates are as follows: Arthu...

The 34th annual "Cheers" cocktail party and dance comes to the Thelma Keller Convention Center in Effingham March 3rd. Social hour will begin at 6:00 p.m., followed by dancing and heavy hors d'oeuvres...

Lake Land College is offering three Employerwise seminars designed to instruct employees how to become more successful at work. The first course, Foundations of Employee Success, will focus on 10 work...

A Mulberry Grove man was arrested yesterday for the September murder of a Brownstown man. According to the Fayette County Sheriff's Department, bond is set at $1,000,000 for 69-year-old David Bright f...

UPDATED: DA: Multiple Officers Taken To The Hospital After Shooting In Harrisburg, PA (Harrisburg, PA) -- Harrisburg, Pennsylvania authorities say multiple police officers have been transported to a l...

Illinois Warns Of Second Measles Exposure (Chicago, IL) -- Public health managers in Chicago are warning of another possible measles exposure. The case, which was confirmed on Sunday and reported yest...

Illinois' Governor Race To Get Very Expensive (Springfield, IL) -- Illinois is on pace to see a race for governor that could cost over 100 million-dollars. The latest campaign finance reports from the...

Downstate Lawmakers Pitch Rural School Broadband (Springfield, IL) -- It's 2018, and it's time that all schools in Illinois have a faster internet connection. That's essentially the sales pitch from a...

Former Governor Thompson Files To Help Beaman Sue Police (Springfield, IL) -- Former Illinois Governor Jim Thompson is joining the effort to help an exonerated man sue the police officers who he says ...

ISBE: Illinois Needs To Double Education Spending (Springfield, IL) -- The Illinois State Board of Education says Illinois lawmakers need to almost double what the state is spending on public schools....