Category Archives: Decatur Radio

Man Charged In Double Stabbing In Decatur
Man Charged In Double Stabbing In Decatur Bond is set five-million-dollars for a man charged in the stabbing of two women in Decatur. Authorities say Corey Smith was arrested last night at a home on E...
Jerry Hinkle May 12, 2022 Tony Webster / CC

COVID Cases Continue To Rise In Illinois
COVID Cases Continue To Rise In Illinois COVID-19 cases continue to rise in Illinois. Health officials say the state is averaging nearly 54-hundred cases of the coronavirus per day over the last week....
Jerry Hinkle May 12, 2022 Fusion Medical Animation / Unsplash

ISP Donating Protective Equipment To Ukraine
ISP Donating Protective Equipment To Ukraine (Springfield, IL) -- Illinois State Police is lending support to UKraine. The ISP is donating more than three-thousand pieces of protective equipment to he...
Jerry Hinkle May 11, 2022 VasenkaPhotography / CC

Illinois Honors Fallen Firefighters
Illinois Honors Fallen Firefighters (Springfield, IL) -- Illinois is honoring firefighters who gave their lives in the line of duty last year. Governor Pritzker and State Fire Marshal Matt Perez yeste...
Jerry Hinkle May 11, 2022 Ron Cogswell / CC

Downstate Judge To Become First Black Woman On Illinois Supreme Court
Downtown State Judge To Become First Black Woman On Illinois Supreme Court (Springfield, IL) -- A downstate Republican judge is set to make history on the Illinois Supreme Court. Fourth District Appel...
Jerry Hinkle May 11, 2022 Beatrice Murch / CC

Pritzker Signs Legislation To Address Root Causes of Crimes
Pritzker Signs Legislation To Address Root Causes of Crimes (Peoria, IL) -- Governor Pritzker is signing off on a bill designed to address the root causes of crime in Illinois. Pritzker signed a measu...
Jerry Hinkle May 11, 2022

25 Year Old Decatur Resident Shot and Killed
25 Year Old Decatur Resident Shot and Killed On May 9th, 2022 at approximately 7:29 p.m., the Decatur Police Department responded to a residence in the 1300 block of N. Walnut Grove reference a report...
Jerry Hinkle May 10, 2022 Tony Webster / CC

Illinois Gas Prices Jump
Illinois Gas Prices Jump As families deal with inflation on groceries and other household items, prices at the pump are once again flirting with record highs. According to GasBuddy-dot-com, prices in ...
Jerry Hinkle May 10, 2022 Mike Mozart / CC

May Is Childhood Drowning Prevention Month In Illinois
May Is Childhood Drowning Prevention Month In Illinois May is Childhood Drowning Prevention Month in Illinois. Parents are being reminded to constantly supervise their children when they are in or nea...
Jerry Hinkle May 10, 2022 Lee Russell / CC

Irvin Blasts Pritzker Over Handing Of LaSalle Veterans Home COVID Crisis
Irvin Blasts Pritzker Over Handing Of LaSalle Veterans Home COVID Crisis Republican candidate for Illinois governor Richard Irvin is blasting Governor JB Pritzker's handling of the LaSalle Veterans Ho...
Jerry Hinkle May 10, 2022






