Category Archives: Weekends on WMCI

Oscar Nominations Out/Complete List (Los Angeles, CA) -- The Oscar Nominations for 2018 are out. Guillermo del Toro's "The Shape of Water" continued its awards show streak, leading the pack with 13 no...

Panasonic Recalls 55" Flat Screen TVs With Swivel Stands (Newark, NJ) -- Panasonic is recalling nearly nine-hundred of its 55-inch flat screen televisions with swivel stands. There's a problem with mo...

What happens when you take some of the most brilliant minds from area high schools and put them under one roof? Nothing other than an academic face off, where teams are pitted against each other in ei...

MATTOON - The next book discussion group at the Mattoon Public Library is reading The Forgotten Man, a reinterpretation of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes. Individual stories from the Depression ...

Miss Iroquois County, Samantha Hasselbring, is the 2018 Miss Illinois County Fair Queen. The 19-year-old Parkland College student took home the title at last night's pageant in Springfield. Hasselbrin...

Head Start still has openings in many of their centers that are looking to fill right away. Head Start is a free preschool program for children 3-5 years old in Clark, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Dou...

(Washington, DC) -- Republicans and Democrats are hardening their positions as both sides dig-in for what could be a prolonged battle. The federal government is in its second day of a shutdown. The Se...

On January 25th, ERBA (Embarras River Basin Agency) will conduct The Point in Time Survey, which will plays a critical role in the task to end homelessness in Clark, Coles, Crawford, Douglas, Edgar an...

The Charleston Kiwanis Club will be hosting trivia night January 26th at the Charleston Moose Lodge. Cost is $10 per person. The winning team will take home $100. In addition, they'll have prizes, a 5...

(New York, NY) -- Crowds of women began marching in Manhattan this morning, wearing pink hats, carrying signs of resistance and the rallying call: "This is our time." Organizers said that before the m...