Yancy Ford, superintendent for the Effingham County School District, provided an update on growth at the county commissioner ...

A Dieterich man has been charged with 11 felony crimes including criminal sexual assault of a victim 13-17, grooming, and ...

A man from Dieterich is facing 11 felony counts of sexual crimes against children following an investigation by the Effingham ...

This year’s Women Who Rule transportation campaign netted more than $105,000, and nearly $26,000 of that sum was raised during the one-and-a-half-hour luncheon.

Two men who supplied kilograms of cocaine for a major drug trafficking conspiracy have been sentenced to federal prison.

The City of Effingham was awarded $50,000 last year from the Morton Arboretum to complete an inventory of the city’s trees, develop an Urban Forestry Management Plan with the community’s input, remove ...

Chatham County along with several others are under a severe thunderstorm watch with chances for tornadoes. See how long this ...

Monticello got a regional title as a lower seed, but that fortune ran out in a matchup with Teutopolis in the 2A sectional semifinals, a 53-47 loss. The Sages got their first regional title since 2022 ...

SPRINGFIELD – The lacrosse season started a little rough for Effingham County’s girls. March 1, they turned things around in ...

Scott Russell, a childhood friend of Collie’s family and director of the Effingham Health System Foundation, the hospital’s ...

On Feb. 26, 2025 at approximately 11 a.m., the Effingham City Police Department responded to an apartment on W. St. Louis Avenue in Effingham for a welfare check. Upon arrival, ...