Warrensburg News

Help us help Macon County Seniors stay cool this summer! The heatwave is yet to hit, so we are collecting fans just in time! Join us in the Rural King Parking lot on Monday July 7 for the 2nd Annual 95Q Fan ...

Lacey J. Chandler of Herrick, IL and Lance T. Thatcher of Warrensburg, IL were married on May 10, 2008, at Chandler Farms in Herrick, IL.

“We keep 80 percent of the existing mobile home”

When stepping into one of Donnie Beechler's portable utility sheds, visitors to the Greater Springfield Home and Builders Show were full of ideas for the climate-controlled, 8-by-12 foot space -- a poker room, ... via State Journal-Register

“The individual that he spoke to didn't want anything to do with the plot and immediately told the college's Public Safety Department”

A Southwestern Illinois College student faces charges after police said he threatened to shoot students at the Belleville campus on Friday.

Steven E. Ellis, 21, of 300 Warrensburg, near Belleville, was charged Saturday with one count of falsely making a terrorist threat.

Ellis approached another student Friday and attempted to recruit him in a plan to shoot SWIC students in a plot similar to the shootings at Northern Illinois University the day before, St. Clair County Sheriff's Capt. Steve Johnson said. Read more

“Mount Zion brought some additional foam. "We're pretty confident it was a lightning strike. The tank was about two-thirds full, or holding about 22,000 gallons of ethanol.”

A 30,000-gallon ethanol storage tank west of Harristown exploded about 3 a.m. Friday, apparently because of a lightning strike that ignited vapors trapped in the vessel after a vent on the top had frozen shut, ... via Herald & Review

Boss-Eyman. Looking for family. Edwin T. Boss married Minnie Eyman in 1891. They were from Warrensburg, Illinois and they had a son Leo Cecil. via Cousinconnect.com

Erich Kurz, 72, of Forsyth, died Thursday, Dec. 13, 2007, at his home. He was born Nov. via Sedalia Democrat

“Most of the accumulation of ice will be tonight and through the morning”

A fallen tree branch extends onto Broadway Sunday afternoon in Lincoln. Matt Williams / The Courier Ice-covered trees on the campus of Lincoln College droop over the glazed roadway Sunday afternoon. via LincolnCourier.com

Authorities identified on Thursday a 44-year-old woman who died from injuries suffered in a one-vehicle crash Wednesday afternoon west of Latham. via Pantagraph

WARRENSBURG, Ill. _ A downstate school district is studying whether it can harness the wind to power its schools. via Http

“Do you need anything for them?”

The two women who emerge from a white Chrysler van cruising along North College Street seem friendlier than most. via Herald & Review

“We offer offset printing and digital printing as well as conventional signs like they've purchased in the past”

Barnett Sign Service is joining forces with DynaGraphics/Fast Impressions as longtime owner Ron White retires. via Herald & Review

“It's like trying to swim in quicksand”

The man who died Wednesday after falling into a grain bin on a farm on Bearsdale Road has been identified as Donald Eugene McIver, 40, of Illiopolis. via Herald & Review

Mark Allen's Journal Click here to see the latest in Mark Allen's Journal. With love, laughter, music and memories he shares these stories with you. via WTHI-TV Terre Haute

“Ropes, harnesses, and people watching out for each other”

A man dies on the job in Macon county. Family friends and co-workers want to know how it happened. via IllinoisHomepage.net

“And seed dealer Pat McClure of Pioneer Seed donated the seeds.”

Herald & Review/Lisa Morrison This corn grown in Central Illinois will help with agricultural projects in Kenya and Bosnia. via Herald & Review

“They like seeing us, and a lot of people will come up to us and just start talking to us. It breaks down the barrier that a squad car has”

Bike patrols are hitting the streets of some small towns in Macon County. It's part of a push from the sheriff's office to increase police presence. via IllinoisHomepage.net

“We don't know how we're going to get it all in. We might have to bungee some to the roof”

The family reunites each year for the World's Largest Garage Sale in Warrensburg where they hunt for the best bargains. via The Post-Star

The Tuscola Warriors football squad scored 41 points and restricted the visiting Warrensburg-Latham Cardinals to 10 in the Warriors league victory on Friday. via MaxPreps