During the December 2025 meeting of the Veterans Assistance Commission of Vermilion County (video here), it was clear the board of commissioners were unfamiliar with ...

In a unanimous 17-page ruling handed down by the Fifth District Appellate Court today, the court Order stated: “The circuit court erred when it held that the ...

We recently requested input on a matter regarding when a person’s pay stops (article here).  That question has direct ties to our original article ...

Macon County Deputy Andrew Ziegler was taken into custody on December 15, 2025, at approximately 2:00 a.m. and charged with speeding more than 35 miles-per-hour over ...

As another year draws to a close, we are excited about what lies ahead. We published more than 300 articles this year alone and have continued receiving an average of more than 1.5 million visitors ...

I am honored to announce that the Coles County Jail has recently completed the annual inspection process through the Illinois Department of Corrections, and our facility has been declared compliant ...

This is a story of state actors failing the public, with tragic results. One individual with a commercial driver’s license (“CDL”) was involved in three “accidents” or incidents within a four-year ...

Illinois State Senator Michael Hastings filed a lawsuit earlier this year directed at people he believed were responsible for disseminating messages critical of him leading up to the 2022 election.

UPDATE 9-14-2020: Catherine Wojnarowski, through her attorney, has stated that she does not remember sending this message, and even if she did, she considers it an invasion of her privacy. Catherine ...

First, we would like to thank the Coles County 911 office for their quick response to this FOIA request for the 911 calls from today’s shooting at the Mattoon High School. We also thank the first ...