Category Archives: The Yawn Patrol

The 29th annual May Merriment will be held Saturday, May 5th at the Mattoon YMCA. Local restaurants will have food stations set up inside Bock Gym, and you can bid on live and silent auction items. Ne...

Lake Shelbyville boaters can earn $75.00 for participating in a focus group. Open to adult males, 20 to 60, the April 28th session will run from 12:30-2:30, and will focus on men who don't always wear...

(Durham, NC) -- A North Carolina restaurant is serving up a burger with eight legs. Durham-based restaurant Bull City Burger and Brewery is offering a burger topped with a roasted tarantula as part of...

(Undated) -- Actor Harry Anderson is dead. The 65-year-old was found dead in his home in Asheville, North Carolina this morning. A cause of death has not been revealed, but police do not suspect any f...

May 12th will by city-wide clean-up day in Charleston. The city will provide dumpsters at no cost, from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the street garage and leaf and limb drop-off sites. Items that will NO...

American Woman, Japanese Man Win Boston Marathon (Boston, MA) -- It's a historic day for the winners of the 2018 Boston Marathon. Olympian Desiree Linden beat the field, rain and cold to become the fi...

NEWTON, IL - Thanks to information provided by the public, charges have been filed against two Newton, Illinois teenagers in connection with the illegal shooting of white pelicans at Newton Lake State...

Immaculate Conception Church of Mattoon has sent a request to Bishop Thomas John Paprocki for permission to close St. Mary School due to declining enrollment. According to Father John Titus, no decisi...

ERBA Head Start is a free preschool program and will be taking application for the 2018-2019 school year on April 17th, in Neoga, from noon to 4pm at the Neoga Public Library. Any interested parent sh...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 13, 2008 MATTOON - Renowned classical guitarist Peter Fletcher will be performing a free concert at 7 p.m. Friday (April 20, 2018) on the first floor of the Mattoon Public ...