Category Archives: Decatur Radio

LaHood Confident Congress, FBI Can Handle Russia Probe
(Washington, DC) -- One central Illinois Republican congressman says there's no need for an outside probe. Congressman Darin LaHood late last week said he's confident Congress and the FBI can continue...
May 15, 2017 Tammy Anthony Baker / CC

Train Selfie May Have Lead To Man's Injuries
(Springfield, IL) -- Police in Springfield are looking to see if a man's train selfie put him in the hospital. Officers say it looks like the man was trying to take a picture of a moving Amtrak train ...
May 15, 2017 Emmett Tullos / CC

Work Halted at Johns Hill Magnet School
The Illinois Department of Health has temporarily halted repairs of a damaged ceiling in the auditorium at Johns Hill Magnet School. Ceiling plaster fell from a portion of the ceiling over the stage a...
May 15, 2017 Dean Strelau / CC

$350,000 grant from the Howard Buffett Foundation
The Macon County Sheriff's Department is getting a $350,000 grant from the Howard Buffett Foundation. The money will go towards purchasing new SUVs for the department's patrol division. The new 2017 C...
May 15, 2017 Andrew Magill / CC

Sports News for Monday May 15, 2017
>>Wainwright, Molina Lead Cardinals Past Cubs (St. Louis, MO) -- Adam Wainwright threw seven innings of four-hit, shutout ball as the Cardinals blanked the Cubs 5-0 at Busch Stadium. Yadi...
May 15, 2017 Joel Dinda / CC

Dollar General Helps Out with Grants
BabyTALK announced they have received grant money from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation. Dollar General awarded more than $75 million in literacy grants to nearly 870 nonprofit organization, lib...
May 13, 2017 Pictures of Money / CC

Man Charged with Drug Overdose of Woman
An Effingham man is charged in connection to a drug overdose of woman. 20 year old William R. Carter is accused of providing a prescription narcotic illegally to the 18 year old woman. The woman was t...
May 13, 2017 Jobs For Felons Hub / CC

Sports News for Saturday May 13, 2017
Royals Nip Orioles (Kansas City, MO) -- Eric Hosmer nailed the go-ahead double in the eighth inning as the Royals nipped the Orioles, 3-2, in Kansas City. Hosmer broke a two-all tie to put KC up for g...
May 13, 2017

Man Charged With Aggravated DUI In Deadly Champaign Crash
(Champaign, IL) -- An Urbana man is facing further charges in a crash that killed a woman last December in Champaign. Prosecutors filed a felony count of aggravated DUI against Joseph Perry on Wednesd...
May 12, 2017 Douglas Palmer / CC

Rauner Booed During Chicago State Commencement Ceremony
(Chicago, IL) -- Governor Rauner is siding with a group of people that booed him during the commencement ceremony at Chicago State University. A chorus of boos erupted yesterday when the governor was ...
May 12, 2017 Steven Vance / CC






