Macon County News

Macon County Headlines Rockies Express Pipeline in service, but construction continues The Blue Mound compressor station for Rockies Express Pipeline East is now fully operational.

Macon County Sheriffs Deputies recently had contact with a man that was walking along Rt.

"Fore was apparently about his duties related to the dredging operation in this general basin area prior to the incident.

Representatives from CHELP, the Decatur-Macon County Senior Center and the Macon County Health Department have called a press conference to highlight the grave threats to services for older adults that the 2010 state budget cuts will cause.

I received the following letter from Dreux Lewandowski, Executive Director of Macon Resources, Inc., this afternoon.

Today's front page of the print edition of the Decatur Tribune is now posted in PDF form.

Supplemental scholarships will be awarded to low-income Macon County residents who are pursuing course work and job training through accredited school of higher education or occupational training for the Fall Semester, which begins August 2009.

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

Money from the recently approved state capital bill will make one veteran's dream of a World War II memorial in central Illinois come true.

He's doing it again! Join Toby Tucker on June 19 infront of Pinkston's Furniture on Rt 121, right next to Rural King, for the 3rd Annual 95Q Toby Tucker Fan Drive.

A fire heavily damaged a 93-year-old former church in central Illinois. Decatur Fire Department officials say the Wednesday morning fire at the former North Fork Church may have been started by lightning.

This Decatur man is talking about getting beat down by an officer behind bars. Macon county correctional officer Barry Altevogt was arrested Wednesday.

There were a number of Memorial Day services in Decatur and Macon County yesterday, and during the week leading up to Memorial Day.

A man who ran from a sentencing hearing and spent 10 years in Missouri returned to a Illinois courtroom on Friday to face the same judge.

Macon County Coroner Michael Day has informed me that Joshua T. Delatorre, 25, of Decatur, was pronounced dead at the scene of a passenger car verses motorcycle crash at MacArthur Road and Karen Drive.

Ladies, have you always wanted to be a Beauty Queen, hold the title, wear the crown and sash?? Think you missed your chance, time passed you by? Think again! 95Q & The Macon County Fair present the Inaugural Mrs.

A highly contagious disease is on the rise in Macon County. Nearly 2 dozen cases of Shigellosis have been reported to the health department.

More than 40 years after gas station attendant Bruce Wayne Clark was shot to death in the central Illinois village of Blue Mound, a 64-year-old Jerseyville man has been arrested in the murder and is held on $2 million bond.

A homicide that has remained unsolved for over 40 years has apparently been solved.

T he National Weather Service in Lincoln has issued an urban and small stream flood advisory until 1 p.m. Wednesday for southeastern Logan County, northeastern Sangamon County, Macon County, Piatt County and northern Christian County in central Illinois.