A judge Thursday declared a mistrial after the jury deadlocked in the murder case of Matthew E. Nation, the Lovington man accused of stabbing a neighbor to death in a dispute over a barking dog.

The state has awarded a $2.3 million grant to upgrade an electrical substation near the County Road 1000N industrial corridor for Charleston and Mattoon to promote further development there.

Bryant urged employees to confide in her information pertaining to undocumented inmates. “I won’t rat you out," she wrote in ...

By setting a target date, you can work backward and figure out exactly how much you need to set aside regularly. For example, ...

Six Central Illinois areas were among those to receive part of $31 million in grant awards to help prepare large sites for ...

The Mattoon Fire Department was able to quickly control a garage fire Wednesday morning. The department was dispatched to a ...

Effingham defeated Hillsboro to win the championship. Avery Wolfe of Effingham was the tournament MVP. Other all-tournament team members are Sidney Donaldson of Effingham, Ella Greenwood of Hillsboro, ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is vowing to fight President Donald Trump's freeze on trillions of dollars in federal funding "with ...

Police are still searching for the person who left a 63-year-old man tied up with duct tape and a TV power cord in a Norwood Park basement late Sunday night, according to a police report obtained ...

Mattoon area residents now have two fewer restaurants to grab a bite to eat with the closure of Denny's and Wendy's.

Seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson is now the majority owner of Legacy Motor Club under a restructuring in which ...

D.A. Davidson analyst Jeff Rulis maintained a Hold rating on First Mid-Illinois Bancshares (FMBH – Research Report) today and set a price ...