Category Archives: The Yawn Patrol

A band jam to benefit the Effingham County Veteran's Memorial will be held July 15th at the Effingham Event Center. Doors open at noon and the jam begins at 12:30. Adult admission is $10.00 per person...

The Lake Land College student body selected Tessa Philpot, St. Elmo, as its 2018-2019 student trustee. The student trustee serves on the Lake Land College Board of Trustees, representing the student b...

SPRINGFIELD - Authors who took readers from the deserts of Mars to the snows of Kilimanjaro and from Chicago's streets to Africa's jungles were named the top Illinois authors by voters participating i...

The Jasper County Chamber of Commerce will celebrate the Fourth of July this Sunday (7/1) with live music from Allie Colleen (daughter of Garth Brooks). Grandstand admission is $10.00; track-side V.I....

Reality TV star Richard Harrison is dead. His son Rick Harrison announced his father, who is famously known for his role as the Old Man on Pawn Stars, passed away this morning while surrounded by frie...

Heather Locklear Arrested Again (Los Angeles, CA) -- Heather Locklear is back behind bars. TMZ reports that the actress was arrested overnight on battery charges and is being held on 20-thousand-dolla...

Crash Kills Sprint Car Racer (Beaver Dam, WI) -- The racing world is mourning the death of World of Outlaws driver Jason Johnson, who has died after a crash at the Beaver Dam Raceway in Wisconsin. His...

The 50th Annual Cumberland County 4-H barbecue will be June 30th from 4:30-8:00 p.m. at Toledo Christian Church. One-meat meals are $7.00, and two-meat meals are $9.00. Tickets will be 50-cents more a...

(Undated) -- The CDC says tobacco-free policies at American schools are helping drive down the national smoking rate. They released a study last week that found over two-thousand colleges and universi...

(Undated) -- Chinese investment in the U.S. has dropped 92 percent in the first five months of 2018. Around one-point-eight billion dollars had been invested as of May, the lowest amount in seven year...