Category Archives: Local News

The Fall Girls on the Run 5k will be November 11th at the Mattoon Area Family YMCA. Registration is $25 through November 10th and $30 on race day.

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum will celebrate America's pastime today with an All-American Picnic featuring baseball-themed crafts, demonstrations of the game as it was played in ...

  According to the Illinois State Police, a tractor trailer driven by Wayne Kauffman, of Oakland, Maryland was eastbound on I-70 east of Martinsville when he failed to stop for backed up traffic ...

The Lake Land College Student Activity Board is sponsoring a Marrow Registry Drive on Wednesday, August 30. Representatives from the Be The Match organization will be available from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. ...

The Shelby County Veterans Fund will be selling sandwiches at the fairgrounds on August 26th to support the Land of Lincoln Honor Flight. Stop by between 10-2 and get a pork tenderloin or rope sausage...

It's back! Tomorrow, Saturday August 19th, run (or walk) in honor of our fallen hero's. It's the annual Illinois Run for the Fallen and it returns to the Charleston High School Track from 7:00 a.m. th...

Around 4:45 p.m. CT, The Clark County Sheriff's Office reported on their Facebook page a serious accident had occurred on Interstate 70 EB milepost 141 (between Martinsville and Marshall). Two air-eva...

WILMINGTON, IL - On July 8, 2017, at approximately 11:20 AM, Illinois State Police (ISP) officials responded to the report of a body in the water of the Kankakee River. The body was located by a home ...

EFFINGHAM, IL - An Illinois State Police (ISP) District 12 trooper patrolling Interstate 70 east of Vandalia discovered 4 pounds (1,852 grams) of heroin during a traffic stop. The street value of the ...

SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois Department of Transportation and Illinois State Police joined members of Mothers Against Drunk Driving and the Alliance Against Intoxicated Motorists to remind motorists of ...