Effingham and Shelbyville split in junior high volleyball competition Wednesday evening. The Mustangs won the seventh-grade contest, 25-13, 25-21. Lillian Weishaar led the team in kills with five. Anna Gouchenouer […]
Martha Ann Bushue, age 101, of Mason, Illinois, passed away at 9:46 a.m. on Wednesday, February 25, 2026, at Lutheran Care Center, Altamont, Illinois, surrounded by her loving family. A […]
Krystal Marie Shroyer, 41, of Louisville, Illinois, passed away on February 24, 2026. Krystal lived boldly and authentically. She was fiercely honest, loyal, and never afraid to speak her […]
A view of Illinois soybeans being harvested from the cab of a combine. (Medill Illinois News Bureau/courtesy Albers Farms, Blue Mound, Illinois) Farmers, many of whom voted for Trump, […]
BY MILLIE LANGE ROBINSON — Teutopolis and Newton both came out winners in the Class 2A Robinson Boys Basketball Regional Wednesday evening. The Wooden Shoes downed Mount Carmel, 50-43. T-town […]
BY MILLIE LANGE CASEY — Four players finished in double figures as Cumberland High School handed Moweaqua Central A&M a 67-36 loss in the Class 1A Casey-Westfield Boys Basketball Regional […]
Timothy Killeen, president of the University of Illinois System, speakers to reporters outside of the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Campbell) by Peter Hancock […]