Effingham High School Winter Guard won the state championship at the Illinois Dance Team Association competition in Springfield on Saturday. The squads won first place in JV and varsity with […]

The Effingham County Sheriff’s Department received a call at 6:50pm Friday regarding a male individual that had been found burned on his property in rural Mason, Illinois. Deputies arrived and […]

BY UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – No. 8 Illinois powered past Indiana, 71-51, in front of a sold-out crowd at the State Farm Center. The Illini (21-5, 12-3 B1G) secured […]

An armed robbery suspect died in Mattoon Friday after shooting himself. Mattoon police were contacted by the Kalamazoo, Michigan Department of Public Safety Friday regarding an active armed robbery investigation. […]