Category Archives: Decatur Radio

Illinois state lawmakers are evaluating the battery of test prospective teachers must take to be licensed. Legislators argue the test deter many college students from entering the profession. A Senate...

A state Senate bill is aimed at raising the gas tax to pay for road and bridge repairs. The bill was introduced last week and the 19-cent-per-gallon increase could create almost two billion dollars in...

If you post a selfie with you and a gun next to a police car, the police will come and get you. A Springfield man learned that lesson this week. Officers arrested Nicholas Slobodyanyuk on Tuesday afte...

Catholics across the state are looking at the latest list of priests accused of abuse to see if they know any of the names. Lawyers for victims of priest abuse released a list yesterday with nearly 40...

There's no denying that thousands of people in Illinois are upset with the push for new abortion laws in the state. Pro-life supporters filled the State Capitol to capacity yesterday. They rallied in ...

Businesses could soon be required to pay people with disabilities in Illinois the same as able bodied workers. State Rep. Theresa Mah has a plan to end sub-minimum wage pay in the state. She says it's...

The Democrat who's shepherding a plan to rollback Illinois' law that requires teens to tell their parents before getting an abortion says his plan is 'pro-family.' State Senator Elgie Sims told lawmak...

Illinois' medical marijuana growers say they can handle legal, recreational pot as well. The group that represents the medical marijuana industry in the state released a report yesterday. The group sa...

Springfield police say a woman is dead after a weekend fight with her girlfriend. But they're not saying if it's a murder. Investigators say 26-year-old Stephanie Brown died yesterday morning at the h...

Small, rural hospitals across the state of Illinois could soon be getting more money from the state. Governor JB Pritzker last week signed a new law that he says will deliver 55-million-dollars to cri...