Category Archives: Local News

New changes in 2026 to the School Safety Drill Act will require substitute teachers to receive training on evacuation and lockdown drills. This is important as those substitute teachers are working in...

Decatur Police responded to reports of shots fired on Christmas day. According to reports On December 25, at around 5 p.m., officers responded to the 900 block of W. View Street in reference to report...

Springfield Police arrested a woman for unlawful possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver and unlawful possession of a weapon by a convicted felon. 41- year- old Lindsay Seward was ...

A Springfield attorney who was the lead prosecutor in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing case has died. Joseph Hartzler died on December 18 in Chicago. He was 75. Hartzler was an assistant U.S. Attorney i...

Springfield Plastics presented Simmons Cancer Institute with a check for $143,550.31 and donated $8,250 to HSHS St. John's Cancer Center from their 2025 Drain for the Cure fundraiser. Since its incept...

Authorities in Logan and McLean counties said a man from Iowa died while in police custody shortly after a pursuit late Sunday night. The Logan County coroner said 66-year-old Richard Saunders of Gutt...

Sangamon-Menard Crime Stoppers is looking for tips to solve an arson at Carter's Fish Market on South Grand Avenue in Springfield early Sunday morning. Crime Stoppers said surveillance video shows a B...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday kept in place a lower court's ruling temporarily barring President Donald Trump from deploying National Guard troops to Chicago as part of his administration's crackd...

The Powerball Jackpot for the Christmas Eve drawing will be at least 1.7 billion dollars as no one matched all the numbers during Monday's drawing. There have been 46 straight drawings without a winne...

The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services is investing $4 million in Medicaid family planning programming in order to counteract the federal defunding of Planned Parenthood in Trump's ...