Springfield will be getting two million dollars in new investments for several community organizations in Springfield and the surrounding area to support local efforts to address and combat homelessness in Central Illinois.

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias announced that starting Monday December,15th all filings with the Court of Claims will be submitted through a new online e-filing portal - clerkofthecourt.ilsos.gov.

Turner in a press release, let it be known that the law which requires law enforcement agencies to conduct a more comprehensive review of a prospective officer's past employment to ensure his or her fitness for duty as a police officer before making an offer of employment will go into effect on January 1st.

CWLP crews are responding to a broken waiter main in the 3100 block of South Fourth Street. Due to the scope of repairs, customers will be without water service during work, which will impact about 80 customers. Work is expected to last several hours due to the size of the main at 24 inches and the location of the bre...

Our Monday Morning Check In With Channel 1450 and Leanna Churchill giving us the latest results and news from Central Illinois' prep sports

For those who don't know, my wife and I used to live on the gorgeous island of St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Yep, paradise with palm trees, turquoise water, and sunsets that look like they were Photoshopped by Mother Nature herself. It was an amazing chapter in our lives-even though we survived not one, but two...

This week of Artist Spotlight bands kicks off with OTTTO and their new single, "Sweaty Pool." The song is the title track from the band's new EP and features Nick Oliveri who was the former bassist of Queens Of The Stone Age on vocalis. Here is what bassist Tye Trujillo had to share about the new EP: "Th...

It's been 35 years since "Home Alone" came out, and became one of the highest-grossing live-action comedies of all time. Here are 10 behind-the-scenes facts you might not know: 1. John Hughes came up with the idea because of his own travel anxiety during a family trip to Europe. John's son James remembers h...

If you've been holding out hope for a "White Christmas", here's the latest . . . Christmas is 10 days out, and advance weather forecasts are shifting. Meteorologists say a warming trend is expected in the coming weeks, so the odds of a white Christmas are diminishing. That's a BIG RELIEF to anyone doing a lo...

Troopers handled five commercial vehicle crashes, 15 property damage accidents and 12 crashes involving injuries including two fatal accidents