The Mattoon Fire Department has put a new fire engine with 1,000-gallon water capacity and its first automated CPR devices into service this spring.
Students and staff from teacher Cheryl Welch's class at the Student LIFE Academy in Mattoon went on a field trip on Tuesday to Scovill Zoo in Decatur.
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Eight area fire/ambulance departments are the recipients of small equipment grants awarded by the Office of the Illinois State Fire Marshal.
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Southern Illinois Democrat Glenn Poshard told party insiders that polls showing Trump ahead of Biden warranted a rethinking of the party's messaging as Election Day nears.
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CHICAGO — For five days, the shouts of student protesters and supporters rang out from Northwestern University's Deering Meadow as they joined demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war unfolding on college campuses nationwide.
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