Category Archives: Top Stories
Gas Prices drop for third consecutive week
The national price of gas dropped about five cents over the week, averaging $4.17 a gallon. (Pixabay)By Jake FogalBLOOMINGTON – Gas prices in Illinois continued to inch down over the week, but a...
Apr 04, 2022
Eureka College offering matching tuition to all Lincoln College students
This comes after Lincoln College announced it would be closing at the end of the spring semester. (Photo courtesy” HOI/ABC)By Heart of Illinois ABC LINCOLN – Eureka College is matching the...
Apr 01, 2022
Lincoln College to close after 157-years
The school has a satellite location in Normal across from Heartland Community College. (Photo courtesy: Lincoln College/Facebook) By Blake HaasLINCOLN – After 157 years, Lincoln College is closi...
Mar 30, 2022
Durkin latest to rip guv, PRB
Illinois House Minority Leader Jim Durkin (R-Western Springs). (Photo courtesy: Dave Dahl/Springfield) By Dave Dahl SPRINGFIELD – Illinois House Minority Leader Jim Durkin (R-Western Springs) is...
Mar 30, 2022
Andrew Dakich joins Ryan Pedon’s staff at Illinois State
Ryan Pedon was Dakich’s coach in 2017-2018, and worked alongside him the next two seasons. (GoRedbirds.com)By Jake FogalBLOOMINGTON-Ryan Pedon has hired his second assistant coach to his staff, ...
Mar 30, 2022
Better Business Bureau warns against postcard scam in Central IL
Mail fraud is punishable by a fine and imprisonment for up to 20 years. (Facebook/Better Business Bureau)By Jake FogalBLOOMINGTON-Fake postcards offering Walmart or Target gift savings have been repor...
Mar 30, 2022
Midwest Food Bank hosts 12th annual Share The Light event
Tickets for the dinner and live auction are priced at $75, and can be bought by calling MFB at 309-663-5350. The silent auction can be accessed by going to 2022MFBGala.giftsmart.com. (Midwest Food Ban...
Mar 30, 2022
State Sen. calls state opioid problem “a mirror on a crisis”
Opioid overdoses went up by a third from 2019 to 2020. (Photo courtesy: Pixabay) By Dave Dahl SPRINGFIELD – The latest salvo in the opioid crisis is a bill to immunize people from prosecution wh...
Mar 25, 2022
Redbird’s, Pedon adds Walter Offutt as assistant coach
Prior to his time in Toledo, Offutt spent a season at Ball State as the Director of Basketball Operations in 2016-2017, before beginning his coaching career at Chattanooga later in 2017 as an assistan...
Mar 25, 2022
Simon Wiesenthal Center issues annual report tracking anti-Semitism
At a statehouse news conference Thursday, Rabbi Abraham Cooper quoted Wiesenthal. (Photo courtesy: Dave Dahl/WJBC) By Dave Dahl SPRINGFIELD – If hate has no home here, it certainly is comfortabl...
Mar 24, 2022
