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

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 ...

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

It’s difficult to reach a high with Novocain and dental syringe. The loss of those items however, can make it difficult t for ...

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 ...

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

MATTOON -- The deaths of two people found at a Mattoon home late Friday are being called a murder-suicide, according to police. A man and a woman were both found deceased at a home in the 800 ...

Meanwhile, five Chicago chemists called the whole case a “hoax.” With Mattoon gripped by fear, the police and townsmen formed a virtual posse in search of the monster — like a scene out of ...

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 ...

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 — 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.