Effingham News

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.

The Effingham County Dive Rescue Team was out early today after a car and driver became trapped in high water along the West Fayette Road river bottoms.

The Shumway Fire Protection District was called to the Julie Shultz residence on East Oriole Drive in rural Effingham at around 9:30 PM Monday for a report of a natural gas leak.

Illinois grows a lot of corn and beans and raise a lot of hogs, but most of what people in the state eat comes from outside our borders.A But a new law could change that.A Governor Pat Quinn has signed a plan to encourage locally grown, and locally sold food.A Quinn hopes the Local and Organic Food and Farm Task Force will not only find new markets ...