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

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

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

Six adults were displaced because of this fire because the electrical service there needed to be shut off due to several code violations being found within the affected apartments in ...

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

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

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

A Mattoon man who admitted to beating his mother to death with a hammer has pleaded guilty and was sentenced to prison.

The Mattoon Police Department assisted the Southern District of Illinois U.S. Marshals Service in locating and capturing a "Most Wanted Fugitive" on Thursday. Germany to declare national emergency ...

MATTOON — A Mattoon man has been arrested after police say he killed his mother with a hammer. In a news release, the Mattoon Police Department reported that officers were dispatched at 9:04 a.m ...

The school board member, Mattoon police Capt. John Hedges, who will present the diploma to him, helped save Pearcy at the very first stage of his life. Hedges provided lifesaving CPR to Pearcy ...