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

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 ...

Winning Effingham County Dog Show winners were, front row, left to right, Kara Shouse, Noel Hoekstra, Ignacio Hernandez, ...

SPRINGFIELD — Harness racing got underway at the Illinois State Fair Friday. Fox Valley Barbie, owned by Altamont’s Penny White, captured a division of the Illinois Department of Agriculture ...

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.

Effingham County Fair 4-H Dairy Goat award winners were, front row, left to right, Clair Berg, Bryar Kreke and Dayton Tabbert ...

Front row, left to right, Emmett Carlson, Emerson Caraway and Everly Schackmann. Back row, left to right, Camden Polanin, ...

Winners were, left to right, Weslyn Stefanski, Pearl Huber, Gage Wernsing and Ariella Goldstein.

Major League Baseball Thursday, August 7 Scoreboard Seattle 4, Chicago White Sox 3 (F/11) Athletics 6, Washington 0 Pittsburgh 7, Cincinnati 0 Atlanta 8, Miami 6 ...