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A new screwball comedy based on a play from 1873 is waltzing its way onto your streaming device of choice. Den...

By WMAY Newsroom Photo Credit: Shutterstock An Athens man has died of the gunshot wound he suffered during an altercation with a neighbor. Sangamon County Coroner Jim Allmon says 42-year-old Corey Markey died Thursday morning at Memorial Medical Center, one week after authorities say he was shot as part of an ongoing dispute. 69-year-old Randy Wasilewski was taken into custody shortly after that incident in the 300 block of South Adams Street in Athens. He was initially booked on attemp...

By WMAY Newsroom It’s back for the first time since 2019. The Levitt AMP series of free downtown concerts returns to the North Mansion Y Block Thursday night, after the concert series was canceled last year because of the pandemic. The concerts run every Thursday night through early August, weather permitting. There will be some COVID precautions in place, with concertgoers encouraged to social distance and to wear masks unless they are fully vaccinated. No food trucks will be on hand...

By WMAY Newsroom Photo Credit: Kevin Hart / WMAY News State Senator Doris Turner is offering some strong words about the failure of her bill to allow Capital Township residents alone to vote on township leadership. Currently the township supervisor and assessor posts are held by the Sangamon County Treasurer and Clerk… officials who are elected countywide, not just by township residents. Turner says that means township residents don’t have true representation… and in a tweet, she ...

By WMAY Newsroom (Mid-West Family Broadcasting) There’s still no word on how a green energy bill might impact the operations of coal-fired power plants for Springfield’s City Water Light and Power and other Downstate utilities. Some lawmakers want to phase out coal-fired plants by 2035… but that would leave CWLP having to buy electricity on the open market while still paying off bonds for a plant that could no longer be used. CWLP and other utilities are calling for a less stringe...

By WMAY Newsroom (Shutterstock) Legal pot is still bringing in big bucks across Illinois. Cannabis sales in Illinois during May totaled more than $116 million… bringing total sales since January to more than half-a-billion dollars. From that, Illinois has taken in more than $121 million in tax revenue, with some of that money going to community groups, police, and public safety campaigns. Comments

Photo Courtesy of Twitter @BobBaffert Late on Wednesday night reports came in that the second sample of Kentucky Derby Winner Medina Spirit had tested positive for a banned substance. While Medina Spirit has yet to be stripped of his Kentucky Derby win, and most likely won’t be for a while due to lengthy legal challenges, his trainer Bob Baffert has been banned from Churchill Downs the home of the Kentucky Derby for the next two years! Medina Spirit’s win was Baffert’s 7 th Derby win putt...

By WMAY Newsroom Jun 3, 2021 | 1:07 PM The Illinois Legislative Inspector General says comments made by a Republican state lawmaker on the day of the January 6 th insurrection at the U.S. Capitol were “distasteful and not excusable,” but says an allegation that the lawmaker helped to incite the violence that day is “unfounded.” Representative Chris Miller was in Washington that day and posted a Facebook Live video in which he talked about “a great cultural war” between suppo...

Memorial Day weekend was no holiday for Springfield police, who report 13 firearms arrests and 11 weapons seiz...

The race for Macon County Sheriff still isn't over... more than two-and-a-half years after the election. Initi...