Six people were displaced, and one firefighter was injured after an apartment fire on Tuesday in Mattoon. The Mattoon Fire ...

The Mattoon Police Department is issuing both a warning on vehicle burglaries and advice on how to avoid becoming a victim.

April was Distracted Driving Awareness Month and on Wednesday, the Mattoon Police Department announced the results of its ...

A man who police said admitted to beating his mother with a hammer pleaded guilty to murder charges and was sentenced this ...

Blood donors can continue giving as part of the Battle of the Badges during the next week at ImpactLife's donation center at ...

MATTOON, Ill. (WAND) - A Mattoon police officer who was on patrol Monday morning was able to help rescue people after spotting smoke coming from an apartment building. The officer saw smoke in ...

Then it gets even weirder. A local fortune teller, Edna James, apparently encountered an “ape-like man” with a “spray gun” ...

MATTOON — As the solar eclipse neared the Coles County skies on Monday, it was the police departments in Charleston and Mattoon who sought to eclipse one another, at least on social media.

Many of Mattoon’s able-bodied men had joined the fight, and it was up to a woefully understaffed police force to maintain order. It could not. “I first noticed a sickening, sweet odor in the ...

MATTOON - The Rev. Mark Prevo jokes that he became the new Mattoon Police Department chaplain for free coffee. And with his free cup of joe in hand during visits, the First Christian Church ...

MATTOON — Police officers recently arrested a Mattoon man who allegedly pointed a loaded rifle at a woman during a domestic disturbance. A Mattoon Police Department press release reported that ...