Category Archives: Decatur Radio

(Peoria, IL) -- Two more Illinois Air National Guard teams, and their planes, are heading to help in the hurricane zone. Guard commanders yesterday said a pair of C-130 Hercules aircraft left Peoria. ...

>>Chiefs Upset Pats On Opening Night   (Foxboro, MA) -- The 2017 NFL season is off to a surprising start. Alex Smith threw for 368 yards and four touchdowns as the Chiefs beat the Patriots ...

>>Patriots, Chiefs Open NFL Season (Foxboro, MA) -- The curtain raises on the 2017 NFL season tonight as the Patriots clash with the Chiefs at Gillette Stadium. New England beat the Falcons in S...

(Springfield, IL) -- Illinois' Opioid Task Force wants to cut the number of overdose deaths in the state by a third in three years. Lieutenant Governor Evenlyn Sanguinetti yesterday said it's an ambit...

(Bloomington, IL) -- State Farm is reaching into its pocket to help folks in Texas impacted by Hurricane Harvey. The Bloomington-based insurance giant announced a half-million dollar gift to the Ameri...

(Monticello, IL) -- A central Illinois man is looking at what amounts to a life sentence for the 1990 murder of his wife. A judge in Monticello yesterday sentenced Gregory Houser to 55 years in prison...

(Springfield, IL) -- Fewer people are sick with West Nile in Illinois this year. The Illinois Department of Public Health yesterday said the state has just 16 human cases of West Nile, compared to nea...

(Chicago, IL) -- Illinois' immigrant community says they're not going away after just one day of protests. Thousands of people took to the streets yesterday to protest President Donald Trump's decisio...

(Urbana, IL) -- Attorneys for the man accused of snatching a U of I scholar want a judge to let them walk away from the case. Attorney Tom Bruno and his sons on Friday asked the judge in Brendt Christ...

>>NFL Upholds Elliott's Six-Game Suspension   (New York, NY) -- An NFL arbitrator is upholding the six-game suspension against Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott. However, multiple report...