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Monday's annual Martin Luther King Day breakfast will still take place this year... but because of the pandemi...

By WMAY Newsroom Photo Credit: Emanuel Chris Welch / Official Website New Illinois House Speaker Chris Welch says he was never arrested over a 2002 domestic dispute with an ex-girlfriend that surfaced again this week as Welch was lining up the votes to take over the job of Speaker. Although a police report was filed, Welch tells WCIA-TV he was merely questioned and let go, but was not arrested. However, the Illinois Times reports that the police report explicitly states that Welch was a...

Hundreds of Illinois National Guardsmen are being called up for two distinct public health and safety missions...

Security is being tightened around the Illinois State Capitol because of concerns over the potential for viole...

While state officials try to ramp up distribution of the coronavirus vaccine, they say very little of the avai...

Subway realizes how frustrating 2020 was for many high school football players which is why they have teamed u...

Springfield bars without commercial kitchens will be allowed to resume indoor service at 25 percent capacity, ...

After one week of in-person instruction in District 186, there are only a handful of reported cases of student...

Springfield Mayor Jim Langfelder has chosen a new mayor pro tem to stand in for him if he's unavailable to car...

By WMAY Newsroom Shutterstock A Decatur man will be going to prison for 90 years for child sex crimes. A federal judge sentenced 36-year-old Gary Boyle to 50 years in federal prison for his crimes, and ordered the sentence to be consecutively with a 40-year sentence in state prison for similar offenses. Prosecutors say Boyle was a collector of violent child pornography, where children were bound and sexually abused. He was accused of trading images with other pedophiles, and ultimately ...