Category Archives: The Yawn Patrol

Sue Rennels, Coles County Clerk would like to remind voters that today (Monday, November 7, 2016) is the last day to Vote Early. Anyone wanting to register or vote may come to the County Clerk's Offic...

An accident occurred Saturday on U.S. Route 40 at Effingham County Road 1075 E, two miles west of Interstate 57, that resulted in the death of an Altamont man. Donald Verdeyen, 63, was traveling eastb...

Mattoon native Blake Leitch is featured in Operation Route 66, which is a project by father and son team Kurt and Nick Gerber. The pair has ridden motorcycles across the country on Route 66 from Chica...

Sign-up continues today for One Stop Community Christmas. If you live in Coles, Cumberland, Shelby, Douglas, Moultrie, Edgar, or Clark County, please take photo ID, children's state medical card or pr...

The Kansas National Honor Society will have a door-to-door food drive on November 11th from 9:00-11:00 a.m. If you live in Kansas, please place non-perishables in a bag or box outside your front door ...

Moultrie County Rural Public Water District has issued a boil order for the following area due to a water main break until further notice: South of 1025 on Route 32 to Findlay Road going west includin...

High school football playoffs: Pana hosts Newton at 7:00 tonight Tomorrow, Tuscola is at Carrollton, Red Hill against Hardin Calhoun, Shelbyville hosts Mendon Unity Supersectional volleyball tomorrow:...

Windsor/Stew-Stras, Newton, and Clay City are all heading to the elite eight in volleyball. The Hatchets swept Farmer City Blue Ridge 25-15, 25-10 to advance to the supersectional at Mount Pulaski. Th...

Some spots in Illinois hit almost 80 degrees on November 1st, but the state says regardless of the temperature, this is the month for winter weather preparedness. Illinois' Emergency Management Agency...

Illinois' medical marijuana program will end its first year with twelve-thousand patients and 28-million-dollars in sales. The program began last November. Medical marijuana supporters say the numbers...