Category Archives: Decatur Radio

A Decatur man is in jail after throwing rocks and chunks of concrete at windows of a bank and a church and then calling police to report the damage. Mikhail Erickson admitted to damaging the windows a...

Decatur Police are looking for a man accused of aggravated animal cruelty after he failed to appear for a pretrial hearing. 21-year-old Dalton Skinner faces the charge after police found a pit bull in...

A Macon County inmate is receiving a mental health evaluation even though he claims he doesn't require one. A judge made the ruling while Jarius T. Fuller, who has a history of mental illness, was in ...

Sawyer Brown has been announced as the headlining act of the Decatur Celebration. The will play on Sunday, August 4th. Sawyer Brown is a country band that was formed by former members of Don King's ro...

The woman found yesterday as part of a murder investigation has been identified. The young lady, 22-year-old Samantha Cushing, was the girlfriend of the suspect and she was pregnant at the time of her...

The defense's request to delay the sentencing of Brendt Christensen, the man who is convicted of killing Yingying Zhang, who was a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois, is being denied. Defe...

A 6 year-old child was hit by a car in Decatur Thursday evening. The child ran into the road on Jasper St. around 9:30 p.m. According to police, the child's injuries are not life-threatening.

Yesterday, the WalMart Supercenter located off 121 near Mt. Zion was temporarily evacuated and thoroughly searched after a phone call was received about a bomb threat on Thursday morning. Although the...

A one-year-old is dead after being hit in the chest with a pellet from a pellet gun. The incident happened Monday in a house on the 1400 block of Rosewood Dr. in Champaign. Loryn Brown was pronounced ...

Police have released audio of what they consider a hoax 911 call in which a man had threatened to mass shooting at a Mattoon church. The man in the phone call claimed he had pipe bombs and a gun and w...