Mattoon News

Workers at a train depot restoration project in eastern Illinois recently peeled back a dropped ceiling and found a treasure.

Washington Savings Bank President and CEO, Claude E. Hudson announces the addition of David J. Doedtman, CPA, to the member-owned bank.A Doedtman fills the newly created position of Senior Vice President, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer.

Labor dispute still on-going after 2 years A long-running labor dispute in Effingham has now passed its second year.

ROYALTY: Neoga royalty graced the pavilion stage Thursday night with the crowning of the new Jr.

When the federal government breathed new life this month into the FutureGen clean coal project, people in eastern Illinois said they'd wait to celebrate the off-again, on-again project until they saw dirt moving at the construction site.

Mattoon, Ill, a small town of about 18,000, has been the home of the giant Lender's BagelFest every July.

Two financial backers of the FutureGen coal power plant are withdrawing from the plan.

Plans to develop a "clean coal" research project in Mattoon, Ill., previously killed under the Bush administration, were recently resuscitated.

Shelby Dennis, daughter of Tony and Carol Dennis of Herrick, and Kaleb Pruemer, son of Brian and Karen Pruemer of Shelbyville were recently named the first winners of the John Culumber Memorial Scholarship.

As the decision passes to give FutureGen the go-ahead, many local residents share concerns over the new one of a kind facility and its ideas of carbon sequestration.

An accident at the Hog Rock River Rally near Cave In Rock, Illinois claimed the life of two people, and injured at least four others.

Republican state Sen. Kirk Dillard is "very strongly" considering a run for Illinois governor.

Rod Blagojevich who had been under federal investigation for hiring fraud has been fired by the state's child-welfare agency.

The Department of Energy has decided to move forward on a stalled futuristic coal-burning power plant in central Illinois that languished under the previous administration.

Supporters of the FutureGen clean-coal project are growing impatient with talks between the Energy Department and utilities that still want to build it in Illinois.

The Decatur Jaycees will host the Summer Blast Car and Bike show at the Decatur-Macon County Fair-grounds June 20.

MATTOON - Two people were taken to a hospital for treatment following a head-on collision west of Mattoon late Saturday morning.

On the first Tuesday of the each month, Charleston residents hear sirens sounding around 10 a.m. According to the Illinois Emergency Management Agency, emergency sirens are to be regularly tested.

Justin Sleezer had an infectious personality and a caring heart. Close friends say he was like a big brother.

Mattoon police putting the pieces together. A bus accident left two young men dead.