Frank and JoAnn Stites of Effingham will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on November 22.

A Guntersville truck driver was seriously injured Monday in the collision of two semis on Interstate 57 in southern Illinois.

Organic gardening experts will present five educational sessions to inspire herb gardening at this year's Organic Gardening Day, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Nov.

Mary K. Nash , 80, of Waynesville, died Friday, Oct. 3, 2009, at St. John's Hospital in Lebanon.

Mona Lamm of Effingham will observe her 98th birthday on October 19. She was born in Shelby County to John W. and Mabel N. Eastwood Wonus.

A Sigel man was killed and two injured while walking along U.S. Route 45, in Sigel, Sunday night.

How do you tell a "real" Ben Folds song from a "fake" one? That question lingered around the snarky piano-man's music well before he punked fans and pirates alike last year by "leaking" sham tracks of 2008's Way To Normal .

At a special noon hour meeting today, the Effingham Unit 40 Board of Education expelled a student.

And my husband Don likes to go to war with the guys." The two are Civil War reenactors, a hobby, some would say passion, the last five years.

According to organizer Pat Mundinger, The Terdminators have the fastest-looking, meanest-looking racer, with a black toilet bowl, a yellow frame and even a big fin spoiler on the back.

According to the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Illinois, a second man has pled guilty for Illegal Entry.

What : Sept. 12th, 2009 Tea Party discussing the health care bill, Cap and Trade, US debt/deficit, Constitutional issues, and other issues facing us as voters and Americans When : 2:00 pm Where : Effingham, IL - Old Courthouse gazebo .

Dave McLellan will be a featured guest during the 16th annual Corvette Funfest held on the corporate campus of Mid America Motorworks in Effingham, IL on September 25-27, 2009.

A Dallas commercial real estate broker has inked one of the largest recent U.S. industrial leases.

St. Anthony Hospital Fire 1949, Volume II, is due out this week at Helen Matthes Library in Effingham.

According to the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, on Monday, 21-year-old, Marco Antonio Gomez-Santis, of Mexico, pled guilty to a one count indictment charging him with Illegal Reentry into the United States After Having Been Removed.

According to Illinois State Police, in Effingham, a Tennessee man was seriously injured after crashing his Harley-Davidson motorcycle, on I-57, Sunday afternoon.

Harness races are on tap at 1:30pm today at the Cumberland County Fair. Tonight at 7pm, Carl Acuff, Jr.

A New York businessman says he may be able to close a deal to purchase the Woodville Mall in a few weeks.

The story is a salute to gigantic things along or near Route 66. The big cross is 190 feet tall, although it no longer is the largest in the Western Hemisphere as once claimed.