Category Archives: Overnights

Governor Pritzker is proposing increased mental health funding in his 2021 budget. Pritzker wants to use some of the cannabis tax money to up funding for addiction and mental health services. This is ...

Governor J.B. Pritzker is issuing over eleven-thousand pardons for people with low-level cannabis convictions. The pardons are the beginning of the first wave of cannabis expungements that happened on...

A lawsuit against University of Illinois social workers and Brendt Christensen is being dismissed. The suit was brought by the estate of Yingying Zhang, a visiting scholar from China who was kidnapped...

Regulations protecting the Mahomet Aquifer from future contamination are in effect. Senator Scott Bennett was one of the sponsors for the bill that will require the IEPA to investigate landfills at ri...

Recreational marijuana is officially legal in Illinois. People looking to buy cannabis lined up at dispensaries across the state yesterday. Many waited for three-hours to make their first legal purcha...

Dense Fog Advisory in effect until 9am for Christian, Macon, Moultrie, Douglas, Coles, Edgar, Shelby, Cumberland, Clark, Effingham, Jasper, Crawford, Clay, Richland, and Lawrence counties. If driving,...

The Lake Land College Board of Trustees invites you to the grand re-opening of the Luther Student Center on December 5th. The open house will run from 3:00-6:30, with the rededication ceremony at 5:30...

Tonight (12/3) is Family Literacy Night at Windsor Elementary School, featuring a visit from Santa! One of Windsor's very own firefighters will be sharing a story at 6:00, and Santa will arrive shortl...

A Mattoon man was arrested Friday night on charges of criminal damage to property, and obstructing a police officer. According to the Mattoon Police Department, 50-year-old Ronald Newkirk was taken in...

A building at Mack's Recycling in Urbana that burned last week caught fire again yesterday. Crews were able to put out the latest fire and the owner says people will be kept away from the building unt...