Audio on Demand: Local Sports & Archives Junior High Softball Roundup — August 14 Kyle Husted Wins At Illinois State Fair, Casey Leonard Takes Five Harness Racing Victories Effingham Junior High ...

SPRINGFIELD — Altamont’s Kyle Husted was a winner in the Illinois State Fair Colt Stakes Championship Three-Year-Old Fillies Pace with a purse of $35,000 Thursday at the Illinois State Fair harness ...

Audio on Demand: Local Sports & Archives Wyatt Avenatti Three-Time Winner At Wednesday’s Illinois State Fair Harness Races Junior High Softball — August 13 Scores Cubs’ Horton Tosses Win Over Blue ...

Mark Tovey, 71, of Effingham, IL, passed away on Tuesday, August 12, 2025 at Lakeland Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Effingham, IL. Arrangements are pending at Johnson Funeral Home in ...

Saturday, August 16 — Taylorville at Effingham, 1 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 4 p.m., 5:30 p.m.

SPRINGFIELD — Wyatt Avenatti was a three-time winner Wednesday at the Illinois State Fair harness races. In the Illinois Topline Two-Year-Old Fillies Draw, he guided Hay Beth to the win in 1:59 3/5.

SPRINGFIELD — Altamont’s Kyle Husted crossed the finish line first several times in Saturday’s harness races at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield. Husted won behind Fox Valley Landen in the Colt ...

Front row, left to right, Lillian Weishaar, Miley Pontious, Emma Wendling and Annie Budde. Back row, left to right, Whitney ...

Robert Buzzard, 74, of Brownstown, died at 12:04 p.m., Monday, August 11, 2025 at Missouri Baptist Medical Center, St. Louis, MO. Funeral arrangements are pending at ...

Effingham's News and Sports LeaderNEWTON — The last day to purchase reserved seats for Newton High School football is August 7. They need to be picked up by August 15.