The GFWC IL Effingham Women of Today began the new year with two community projects. Members assembled and donated 40 “Busy Bags” that were filled with items such as books, […]
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A pedestrian was fatally injured when struck by a vehicle late Saturday night at Mattoon. State police report the pedestrian, Dylan Bellamy, a 22-year-old man from Benton, Wisconsin, was walking […]
Two young children were killed in a house fire Friday morning in Janesville, a community on the Cumberland-Coles county line. Coles County Coroner Ed Schniers has identified the children as […]
A Mattoon man has been arrested for the murder of his mother. Mattoon city police say 31-year-old Douglas R. Reed admitted to striking his mother several times in the head […]
Teutopolis village board members this week decided to hold off on reimbursing the village for Tax Increment Financing district funds. Some major projects are in the works for this year […]
A local man has been charged with predatory criminal sexual assault. 62-year-old Richard L. Bailey of Effingham is a registered sex offender stemming from a conviction in Coles County in […]
(THE VEHICLE THAT STRUCK THE GAS MAIN DOWNTOWN FRIDAY AFTERNOON. NO ONE WAS INJURED BUT A RELEASE OF GAS RESULTED FROM DAMAGE DONE TO THE METER) A vehicle struck a […]