Category Archives: The Yawn Patrol

The Illinois Sheriffs' Association will be awarding $53,500 in college scholarships this year. In order to qualify, students must be enrolled full-time at a certified institution of higher learning wi...

Check your 20 dollars bills if you live or shop in Carbondale, Illinois. Police in the southern Illinois city yesterday put out a warning after three businesses reported getting fake 20s on Tuesday. O...

Illinois' latest jobs report shows a drop in local unemployment rates across the state. But the Illinois Department of Employment Security says a handful of downstate cities also lost jobs over last y...

An accident involving a vehicle and utility pole has occurred at the Route 45/Route 121 junction south of Mattoon. Please avoid the area for now.

Multiple crashes and slide offs are being reported by Illinois State Police. Troopers have been dispatched to I-74 between Champaign and Farmer City. Frost has glazed over the lanes.

One Illinois lawmaker wants to ban tackle football for kids younger than 12-years-old. Democratic state Rep Carol Sente yesterday unveiled a plan that she says will help reduce the number of brain inj...

The National Weather Service will be offering severe storm spotter training in March. Topics will include: Thunderstorm development and features; tornadoes and other rotations; non-tornadic events, an...

Get to know Lake Land College at the next Laker Visit Day, February 9th from 9:00 to noon. Representatives from all departments will be there an answer questions. You can also meet with faculty member...

The Fox Ridge Foundation's all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast will be February 24th from 7:00-11:00 a.m. at Wesley United Methodist Church in Charleston. Meals are $6.00 for adults, $3.00 for kids aged...

(Nashville, TN) -- The big wheels will keep on turning one last time for Lynyrd Skynyrd before the group heads back to "Sweet Home Alabama" for retirement. Lynyrd Skynyrd is kicking off its "Last of t...