Category Archives: The Yawn Patrol

Bass Pro Completes $4 Billion Purchase Of Cabela's (Omaha, NE) -- The Cabela's sale to Bass Pro Shops is finally complete. Bass Pro acquired Cabela's for four-billion dollars after a year of negotiati...

Chip and Joanna Gaines, starts of HGTV's "Fixer Upper" have made the official announcement on their website. Season 5 will be the final season for the show based out of the Gaines' hometown of Waco, T...

Florida Keys To Reopen Sunday, Three Weeks After Irma (Key West, FL) -- After being hit hard by Hurricane Maria the Florida Keys are set to reopen. That was the target date set last week by Governor R...

According to the Illinois Department of Transportation, Spring Hill Road in Montrose will be closed for repairs next week. Work is scheduled to begin at 7:00 a.m. Monday, October 2nd, and weather perm...

UPDATED: Corruption Charges In College Basketball (New York, NY) -- Some assistant coaches at top-tier college basketball programs are being accused of taking cash bribes to deliver star athletes to a...

Volleyball: Mattoon vs. Charleston, T-town @ Dieterich, Arcola battles Bement, Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond against Sangamon Valley, Windsor/Stew-Stras hosts CH/BC, Effingham plays Mt. Zion, Okaw V...

Time is running out to join the YMCA NEW CHALLENGE! Their Total-Y Wellness Challenge is designed to help you tap into all five dimensions of wellness (emotional, intellectual, physical, social and spi...

Orders are now being taken for #Mattoonstrong t-shirts. Shirts are $10.00 each. Large group orders are being taken and they are working on setting up different locations and times for individual sales...

Harry Potter Night will be held at Eastern Illinois University's Booth Library and Tarble Arts Center on October 26th from 6 to 10 pm. This event will feature a trivia contest, costume contest, games,...

Night of Hope returns to Jackson Avenue Coffee in Charleston September 29th. Bid on silent auction items, enjoy live music by Motherlode and Big Blue Mountain and help support Hope of East Central Ill...