Sacred Heart then had a strong third quarter, outscoring St. John 18-9 and finished with a 16-9 final quarter. Three players ...

A pedestrian was fatally injured when struck by a vehicle late Saturday night at Mattoon.

Effingham High School will be sending three wrestlers to the Class 1A Carterville Sectional after competing in the Lawrenceville Regional Saturday. Kaiden Stewart, Cole Dulumback and Gage Emmerich ...

(THE VEHICLE THAT STRUCK THE GAS MAIN DOWNTOWN FRIDAY AFTERNOON. NO ONE WAS INJURED BUT A RELEASE OF GAS RESULTED FROM DAMAGE ...

A Newton resident will begin to serve a prison sentence for aggravated domestic battery. 18-year-old Kaileb Keener was ...

Effingham city council members heard about a $3 million grant at this week's meeting. The Regional Site Readiness grant is ...

Scott Kabbes led off by immediately saying the developers don't own the mall, noting that it was 3 months ago when their ...

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 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 2002. Bailey ...

Southern Illinois University Carbondale's Spring 2025 enrollment is up 3.3%, or 344 students, compared to last year. The increase, the second year in a row of over 3%, follows a Fall that saw the ...

The structure is deemed uninhabitable. The American Red Cross was contacted to assist the occupant. Most fire units cleared ...

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 with a hammer in the early ...