Category Archives: Decatur Radio

(Pana, IL) -- A man is accused of setting a house fire in Pana over the weekend. Police say Brian Ferguson entered a woman's home Sunday night on High Point Drive and began to cut his throat with a kn...

(Springfield, IL) -- Once again, state leaders are staying tight-lipped about why the man in charge of cataloging Abraham Lincoln's papers is on unpaid leave. Daniel Stowell admits he's been sent home...

(Urbana, IL) -- The something in the water in East Central Illinois is medication and even human hormones. Researchers at the University of Illinois say they've found very small levels of over the cou...

(Lincoln, IL) -- A new report is suggesting inmates at the major women's prison in Illinois are treated too harshly. The report was released by the National Resource Center on Justice Involved Women o...

(Springfield, IL) -- There's a surprising portion of the indictment against disgraced Central Illinois ex-Congressman Aaron Schock. In the document filed earlier this month, it's alleged Schock scheme...

(Champaign, IL) -- Parkland College in Champaign is making cuts. School trustees voted Wednesday night not to renew the contracts of eight non-tenured faculty members. Officials say the layoffs are be...

(Lincoln, IL) -- A study done for the Illinois Department of Corrections is detailing unnecessarily harsh treatment of women inmates at the Logan Correctional Center in central Illinois. The federally...

(Springfield, IL) -- Most of Illinois' deer hunters are already in the woods or the field, and the state is hoping they're being safe. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources is pushing hunter sa...

(Springfield, IL) -- A former employee of the Illinois Treasurer's office is accused of claiming items from the unclaimed property vault for himself. Joseph Smith and his friend Ademola Adeniji are ac...

This weekend marks the start of #DECtheTown2016 where events will be taking place in Decatur starting November 19th and running through the month of December. The 9th Annual Lighted Christmas Parade k...