Category Archives: The Yawn Patrol

Flash Flood Watch in effect from Noon today through tomorrow afternoon for Cumberland, Clark, Effingham, Jasper, Crawford, Clay, Richland and Lawrence counties.   A Flash Flood Watch remains in e...

Former Rolling Stones Bassist Bill Wyman has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. Wyman announced the news on twitter this morning (Tuesday, March 8). He is in treatment and expected to make a full re...

The Effingham County Lightning Special Olympics team has been participating in Special Olympics team Basketball for the past 6 years. Prior to that time, the Effingham County Lightning athletes had pa...

Best of luck to the T-town Wooden Shoes as they battle Breese Central at the Carbondale Super-Sectional tonight at 7:30. We'll keep you updated on the First Neighbor Bank Scoreboard.

The Embarras Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation will hold its annual banquet March 18th at the Charleston VFW. Doors open at 6:00 and dinner will be served at 7:00. You'll have a chance to...

To provide greater protections for private property owners when utility companies seek to build more power lines, State Senator Dale Righter filed legislation giving property owners more rights. Senat...

University of Illinois Director of Athletics Josh Whitman has made it official: Lovie Smith will be the new head football coach for the Illini. A press conference will be held at 2:00 today.

Scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 11:00am, otherwise, cloudy and breezy with a high of 67 Mostly cloudy tonight with a low of 55 Cloudy tomorrow with a high of 68 Showers likely tomor...

It is with a heavy heart that will tell you that Joey Feek of Joey+Rory has passed. Joey was diagnosed with stage 4 cervical cancer. She was 40. More here from Rory: http://thislifeilive.com/a-dream-c...

For every Partner in Hope that calls in in the 4:00 pm hour we will pop one of these balloons in honor of all of the local patients. Partners in Hope can pick a local patient they would like to honor ...