A Mattoon man has been arrested for the murder of his mother. Mattoon city police say 31-year-old Douglas R. Reed admitted to striking his mother several times in the head with a hammer in the early ...

Two young children were killed in a house fire Friday morning in Janesville, a community on the Cumberland-Coles county line. Coles County Coroner Ed Schniers has identified the children as ...

Teutopolis village board members this week decided to hold off on reimbursing the village for Tax Increment Financing district funds. Some major projects are in the works for this year so those will ...

A local man has been charged with predatory criminal sexual assault. 62-year-old Richard L. Bailey of Effingham is a registered sex offender stemming from a conviction in Coles County in 2002. Bailey ...