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MACOMB — Western Illinois University did not renew the contract of head baseball coach Andy Pascoe. The school announced the move early Thursday evening. Pascoe was named the mentor of the Leathernecks on September 19, 2019, becoming the seventh in the history of the program. WIU went 8-44 in 2022 under Pascoe's watch.

The Henderson County Museum, in Raritan, Illinois, will be open on Monday, July 4th from 11 am to 2 pm. The museum grounds consist of three buildings: the old Raritan school building and gymnasium, an agricultural building and the Graham one-room schoolhouse. Tours are self-guided at your own pace and...

Six classes of race cars competed at the Davenport, Iowa Speedway Friday, June 26, on a warm summer night. Included on the racing card were the Sprint Invaders with the 360 c.i. motors. Young Waco, Texas, native Chase Randall had the 21-car field of winged sprint cars chasing him in...

KHQA STUDENT ATHLETE OF THE WEEK PRESENTED BY BLESSING HEALTH SYSTEM. College: Bradley University (Golf) On Wednesdays at KHQA, we scrap the traditional format and devote our entire three minute six o'clock newscast to honoring the outstanding student-athletes in Tri-State Sports. The minimum requirement to be considered for this award is a 3.5 GPA with participation in at least one sport. And you must be a High School Senior. At year's end, our independent nominating committee will choose and reward the top Male and Female from the 36 candidates appearing in our Wednesday Night honor roll with a college scholarship. If you know of a deserving candidate, you can obtain a nomination form from your High School's Athletic Director or Principal, who must sign off on the nomination for it to be considered. Or print one from the KHQA Website, but be sure to have your AD and Principal sign off on it. We don't want to miss out on introducing the Tri-States to deserving candidates so help us put the spotlight on these amazing Young Men and Women in our communities. There is a dinner banquet as well to honor all of our nominees in June. Please help us add to the list below. Our second (and second to last) nomination vote is set for January 10.

Beardstown resident Winiban Irigoyen, a Mount Sterling Dot Foods employee, was the overall winner in this year's 2022 Forklift National Competition.

Submit your questionnaire for consideration. The City of Macomb allocated $330,000 of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) for direct assistance for the Residential Façade Improvement Grant Program (RFIG). Western Illinois Regional Council (WIRC) will administer the program. The RFIG program is a 90% matching reimbursement grant program that...

ROSEVILLE — Dakota Davis offers meals from his Foodoodz food stand at at 195 North Main Street in Roseville. Davis bought his food stand in March of 2018. "I've always loved to cook and my dream was to open a restaurant, but I found a food stand is more my style as I love being outdoors and with a food stand you're not stuck in one place," Davis explained.

COLCHESTER — Resident Brandy Brewer, who went missing from her mother's home in Colchester, was found Tuesday afternoon. According to ESDA Director Edgar Rodriguez, she was found by Lake Argyle. "We got a tip from a camper there that saw a lady matching the description," he said. ...

LEWISTOWN — This year’s Fulton County Fair will be held Monday, July 25 through Saturday, July 30. The Queen Contest will kick off Grandstand events beginning Monday at 6:30 p.m. The cost to attend is $5. For a complete schedule, check out Facebook, Fulton County Fair, Lewistown, Illinois...

The Board of Education agreed to have the district hold E-Learning days instead of calling off classes for emergencies such as snow storms. “On these years where you have four, five, six snow days, those really end up being four, five, six lost learning days, because when you tack them onto the end (of the school year), there’s no way of creating that continuity of learning,” said Superintendent Patrick Twomey.

Christina Marie Stull, 58, of Avon, IL, passed away at 6:40 a.m., Wednesday, June 29, 2022 at home. She was born on November 15, 1963 in Wurzburg, Germany, the daughter of Libby Bent of Galesburg, IL and the late Paul Bent of Washington. Tina was preceded in death by her...

A weekly roundup of news from around the region. The city agreed to pay $5 million to settle the suit, which was brought by the mother of a man who was shot to death by police five years ago. Officer Chris Chiprez fatally shot Marquis Jones, 27, after police stopped...

MACOMB — Local 4-H participants “learn by doing,” and the fair is their opportunity to demonstrate the knowledge and skills they have gained throughout their time in 4-H as they display their projects. 4-H youth who raise beef, swine, sheep, goats, dairy, and poultry for their annual...

A recent online article, titled “The Top Ten Affordable Small Towns Where You’d Actually Want to Live,” created by a national real estate company, known as Realtor.com, asserts that home buyers today are flocking to “distant small towns they once might have dismissed.” And that’s because the best of those places have “cheaper and more spacious real estate, picture-perfect town squares, walk-able downtowns, good jobs, easy access to outdoor activities, and even plenty of restaurants, bars, and entertainment options.”

CANTON — MidAmerica National Bank’s Annual Fireworks Fundraiser Cookout held June 17, raised a total of $4,108 for the City of Canton’s 2022 Fireworks Fund. For decades, MidAmerica has purchased the food and supplies to host the cookout with all proceeds from food sales donated to the Fireworks Fund.