Category Archives: Decatur Radio
Illinois Gets Massive Gift To Fight Synthetic Marijuana Bleeding
(Springfield, IL) -- Illinois is getting another tool to fight the dangerous side effects of synthetic marijuana. The Illinois Department of Public Health Tuesday announced a gift of 800-thousand vita...
Apr 24, 2018

Illinois' Unpaid Bills Cost Taxpayers Over A Billion Dollars
(Springfield, IL) -- The price tag for the state of Illinois' inability to pay its bills is now over a billion dollars. A number of news outlets reported yesterday that Illinois Comptroller Susana Men...
Apr 24, 2018 Pictures of Money / CC

Tazewell County Sheriff: We Didn't Have Waffle House Shooter's Guns
(Pekin, IL) -- The sheriff in Tazewell County is making it clear: His office never had the gun that police say was used in the Waffle House shooting. Sheriff Robert Huston 's office released a stateme...
Apr 24, 2018 Bill Bradford / CC

IDOT, State Police Launch Distracted Driving Week Crackdown
(Springfield, IL) -- The Illinois State Police are telling drivers to put down the phone. This week is Distracted Driving Awareness Week in Illinois, and the State Police and I-DOT are gearing up for ...
Apr 24, 2018

Decatur Working Families to Host Ceremony in Honor of Workers Who Died on the Job
(Decatur, IL) -- On Friday, April 27, working families, faith leaders and local officials will join at 5:30 PM at the Worker Memorial monument, located on the northwest corner of the Macon County Cour...
Apr 24, 2018
Sports News 4/24/18
>>Rockets, Jazz Win NBA Game Fours (Undated) -- The Rockets and Jazz were winners in the NBA Playoffs. Houston scored 50 points in the third quarter and won 119-100 at Minnesota to take a 3-1 le...
Apr 24, 2018

Arbor Day Ceremony Set for Friday
(Decatur, IL) -- The City of Decatur, a 2017 Tree City USA designee for the 36th time, will host it's annual Arbor Day tree planting ceremony at 9 a.m. Friday, April 27 at Oak Grove Elementary School,...
Apr 23, 2018

ISP Urges FOID Card Holders to Renew Early as June 1 Expiration Approaches
(Springfield, IL) - As the first wave of the 10-year Firearm Owners Identification card come due for renewal, Illinois State Police Director Leo Schmitz is urging FOID card holders to apply early to r...
Apr 23, 2018

Report: University Of Illinois seeing More Harassment Reports
(Urbana, IL) -- University leaders in Champaign-Urbana are wondering if #MeToo is driving an uptick in sexual harassment reports. "The News-Gazette" in Champaign reported Sunday that the U of I has se...
Apr 23, 2018

Illinois Among States With Case Of Lettuce Sickness
(Springfield, IL) -- Illinois is on the list of states with someone who got sick after eating tainted lettuce. The Centers for Disease Control on Friday issued a warning that no one should eat Romaine...
Apr 23, 2018 Karen and Brad Emerson / CC






