Category Archives: Local News

For Immediate Release - March 1, 2021 Pritzker Administration Announces Inaugural Graduating Class from Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice's Barber and Cosmetology Training Program CHICAGO - Less...

For Immediate Release - March 1, 2021 IARSS Survey: Illinois Schools Struggle with Teacher Shortage Made Worse by COVID-19 SPRINGFIELD - In a remarkably challenging year for education during the COVID...

For Release - February 26, 2021 Illinois State Police Investigate Man for Aggravated Battery to a Child Allegation Springfield, IL - On October 20, 2020, Illinois State Police (ISP) Division of Crimin...

For Release - Friday February 26, 2021 Governor Pritzker Signs HB 4276, Extends Protections for First Responders and Frontline Essential Workers Impacted by COVID-19 Building on efforts to protect Ill...

For Immediate Release - March 1, 2021 Coles County Clerk Julie Coe reminds voters that Early Voting for the April 6, 2021 Consolidated Election is now available. Any voter interested in voting early m...

An Edgar County man and his infant daughter died in an early morning fire today, Monday, March 1, 2021. According to the Paris Fire Department, the home in Vermilion was fully engulfed in flames when ...

For Immediate Release - February 27, 2021 EFFINGHAM - Illinois State Police (ISP) District 12 Commander, Captain Cory Ristvedt, announces the ISP will conduct Nighttime Enforcement (NITE) patrols in M...

Former Mattoon Fire Chief Oren Lockhart passed away Sunday, February 28, 2021. Lockhart was with the department from 1973 to 2002. In addition to chief, Lockhart also served as a driver, captain, dire...

For Immediate Release - March 1, 2021 March is National Ladder Safety Month SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois Department of Labor's Illinois OSHA division joins safety officials across the country in promoti...

WASHINGTON - Today, Congresswoman Mary Miller introduced the Safety and Opportunity for Girls Act. This is her first bill as a Member of Congress. This bill would clarify that nothing in Title IX of t...