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During Mental Health Awareness Month in May, Springfield police are reminding the public about programs and se...

The Illinois Senate has approved a bill that would require sex education in public schools to use a comprehens...

Services are set for a Champaign police officer who died last week in the line of duty. Visitation for Officer...

A Route 66 museum in Logan County has reopened to the public. The Mill museum in Lincoln shut down last year b...

An AMBER Alert for an abducted Southern Illinois child has been canceled after the girl was found unharmed. Au...

A Central Illinois veteran of three wars would be remembered with a highway designated in his honor, under a r...

By WMAY Newsroom Mid-West Family/Jim Leach The average number of daily COVID-19 vaccinations in Sangamon County is climbing again… but still well below its peak in March. With the vaccine now available to those as young as 12, the seven-day rolling average of doses administered has climbed to 814 a day, up from 681 a week ago. But nearly 2,000 doses a day were being administered in mid-March. More than 42-percent of Sangamon County residents are fully vaccinated, the second best showi...

By WMAY Newsroom Shutterstock Two men have been arrested for a string of burglaries of businesses and ATM and gaming machines around Sangamon County and surrounding areas. 26-year-old Austin Angeli and 30-year-old Cody Snow-Angeli were arrested Monday on five counts of burglary and four counts of theft. Among the locations they allegedly hit over a five-day period were the Firefighters Lake Club, Aqua Sports Club, and the Oaks Golf Course. They’re being held on $200,000 bond each.  

By WMAY Newsroom Illinois House Democrats map Republicans are blasting new proposed legislative maps, and say releasing them on a Friday night is a page out of former Speaker Mike Madigan’s playbook. GOP Representative Tim Butler’s district would apparently be drastically redrawn, although Butler says it’s hard to say for sure because there’s little detail provided on what he calls a “clip art map.” But Democrats say the maps reflect the racial and geographic diversity of I...

By WMAY Newsroom Photo: Springfield School District 186 / Official Website With more school-age children now being vaccinated, the number of new COVID-19 cases among District 186 students is declining. According to the district’s COVID dashboard, there were six new student cases reported in the past week… the lowest weekly amount since hybrid students returned to classrooms four days a week in April. There have been 44 student cases so far in May… compared to 85 in April.