Category Archives: Local News

Latest Jobs Report: Illinois Job Growth Is Slow (Springfield, IL) -- Illinois is adding new jobs, but barely. The latest report from the Illinois Department of Employment Security released yesterday s...

Celebrate the Great American Solar Eclipse at the EIU Campus Pond Monday (8/21) Between noon and 2:30, they'll have free Sun Chips and Moon Pies, along with pizza, hot dogs, popcorn, solar eclipse gla...

Lake Land College's Adult Education will be offering free computer classes in various locations in September. In Mattoon and Effingham, classes begin on the 11th, and classes in Pana and Paris will st...

This Friday is Meet the Titans Night at the Oakland High School football field. They'll have a game zone, with a dunk tank and obstacle course from 6:00-7:30, pork burger and hot dog meals for sale, a...

(Barcelona, Spain) -- Police in Spain are still looking for the person who drove a van into a crowd in Barcelona, killing at least 13 people. The terrorist attack in Spain's second-largest city Thursd...

(Chicago, IL) -- Governor Rauner is expected to announce tomorrow whether he'll sign a bill that would put limits on what local police can do to help immigration agents. So far, Rauner has only said t...

SPRINGFIELD, IL - The Illinois Wildland Fire Crew, sponsored by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR), assisted with wildland firefighting efforts during a recent two-week deployment, as...

An Effingham man was killed while working on a vehicle last night. According to Coles County Coroner Ed Schniers, 48-year-old Michael Slaughter was working underneath a vehicle at his uncle's home in ...

(EFFINGHAM, IL) - The HSHS St. Anthony's Foundation 9th Annual Golf Benefit held July 21 at the Effingham Country Club was a big success. The event, which evolved through a partnership with Jonathan K...

SBL Babies, a new FREE App, was recently launched to help expectant moms monitor and track their pregnancies, complete with information by trimester, packing lists, nursery shopping lists, grocery lis...