Category Archives: Weekends on WMCI

Friday, February 9th and tonight more basketball continues. Competing for a Regional Championship in Girls' Basketball is Oblong and Brownstown/St. Elmo, while conference play continues in Boys' actio...

(Undated) -- Actor John Gavin is dead at the age of 86. Gavin is perhaps best known for his role as Sam Loomis in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho." He was also Julius Caesar in Stanley Kubrick's "Spartacus...

According to a press release posted on the Charleston School District website, today, February 9, 2018, "U.S. Marshalls contacted District officials yesterday with information that Adrian Rivas, an at...

SPRINGFIELD - The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum launched its celebration of Lincoln's birthday by announcing two major acquisitions: an angry letter the future president wrote to a c...

The Charleston Knights of Columbus will have their annual Lenten fish fry every Friday from February 16th to March 30th, starting at 4:30 at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church. They'll be serving fr...

Riddle Elementary School students in Mrs. Stuart's class are teaming up with the Mattoon High School Student Council to Block Out Hunger. They'll host a canned food drive at the final varsity basketba...

The National Weather Service has issued two (2) Hazardous Weather Outlooks for our Illinois listening area. This is the first one: This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of central Illinois, e...

Lake Land College is excited to invite everyone to the college's first step show. Eastern Illinois University's award-winning Omega Psi Phi fraternity will perform in the Luther Student Center Theater...

Global Tequila Shortage (Amatitan) -- The world is facing a tequila shortage. The heartland of the tequila industry, Mexico's western state of Jalisco, is facing a shortage of agave plants. The increa...

Jimmy Garoppolo has started just seven games in his NFL career, but that was enough to earn him a record contract. Garoppolo agreed to a five-year deal with the San Francisco 49ers on Thursday, accord...