Category Archives: The Yawn Patrol

Illinois State Police (ISP) in District 12 encourage motorists to prepare for travel during cold weather. Preparation now will make dealing with possible roadside mishaps a little easier. Drivers are ...

Downstate Cities Included On Cubs World Series Tour (Chicago, IL) -- Cubs fans in the northern half of Illinois can expect to see the World Series trophy in their cities. Eventually. The team says it ...

Boys' high school basketball tonight: Mattoon @ Effingham, Charleston goes to Salem, Arcola vs. Tolono Unity, Windsor/Stew-Stras plays Shelbyville, Altamont against South Central, Casey-Westfield host...

Mattoon remained undefeated, by the slimmest of margins, 46-45 over Effingham. Sierra Thompson finished with a double-double, with 18 points and 17 rebounds, and Avery Jackson had 15 points. It was th...

If you don't have plans for New Year's Eve, you can come out to the Mattoon American Legion Post 88. They will be having a rib eye /shrimp dinner with wine, a comedy show with Trey the Drummer, and a ...

The 7th Annual Holiday Luncheon will be held on Tuesday the 13th at the LifeSpan Center set to begin at 11am. The luncheon is free to Coles County residents age 60 and older, however reservations are ...

Lake Land College's Center for Business and Industry is hosting an electrical training series, designed to enhance the skills of existing maintenance teams as well as train employees from other areas,...

The St. Mary School Mega Raffle is back. Tickets are just 20-dollars each, and only three-thousand will be sold. Third place is $750, second place, 2-thousand dollars, and 20-thousand dollars for firs...

On Thursday, December 8th, East Central Illinois Task Force and the Eastern Illinois University Police Department executed a search warrant and arrested 21 year-old, Nicholas A. Paglia in Charleston. ...

The Illinois board in charge of community colleges has approved distribution of $3 million in emergency funds to help schools across the state that are in need. Illinois Community College Board chairm...