Category Archives: Local News

For Immediate Release Illinois State Police Announce Results of Alcohol Countermeasure Enforcement Patrols Pesotum - Illinois State Police (ISP) District 10 Commander, Captain Ryan Starrick, announces...

For Immediate Release State and Local Economic Development Organizations to Attract Global Investment to Illinois at 2022 SelectUSA Summit SPRINGFIELD - The State of Illinois today announced its deleg...

For Immediate Release Illinois EPA Announces More than $500,000 in Unsewered Communities Planning Grant Awards SPRINGFIELD -Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Director John Kim today annou...

For Immediate Release Double the Speed! Consolidated Communications' Fidium Now Delivering Symmetrical 2 Gig Speeds Across All-Fiber Network Mattoon, Ill. - June 27, 2022 - Fidium Fiber, Consolidated ...

For Immediate Release ISP Announce Results of Nighttime Enforcement Patrols Pesotum - Illinois State Police (ISP) District 10 Commander, Captain Ryan Starrick, announces the results of Nighttime Enfor...

For Immediate Release - June 28, 2022 Lake Land College to Host Introductory Court Reporting Class Lake Land College will host a court reporting First Steps class on July 19 from 6-9 p.m. in Webb Hall...

The annual Illinois Run for the Fallen will be held at the Charleston High School track August 20th from 7:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. This event honors and remembers our Illinois service members who died in...

Effingham County FISH is accepting applications for free school supplies for children in need who reside in Effingham County. Parents of preschoolers through 8th graders will need to complete an appli...

Three Dead, Dozens More Hurt After Amtrak Train Derails In Northern Missouri (Mendon, MO) -- Three people are dead and dozens more are hurt after an Amtrak train derailment in northern Missouri. Amtra...

Coles Co. Nurse Resigns Over Controversial Social Media Comments (Mattoon, IL) -- A Coles County nurse is stepping down following backlash over controversial comments made on social media over the wee...