One adult is dead and a child is in critical condition after a fall through the ice over a pond near Charleston.
The deceased has been identified as Carlos Serafin.
Coles-Moultrie County Emergency Communications...
Eastern’s Naming Committee met for what may have been the final meeting on renaming Douglas Hall before the Board of Trustees will discuss, but not vote, on a name change during the BOT meeting Jan....
Eastern’s Naming Committee will finalize its recommendation on potential new names for Douglas Hall during its meeting Thursday at 9 a.m. in Old Main, room 1019.
A draft of the letter shows the strengths...
The family of a missing Eastern alum is asking for the United States government to assist in the search for an Eastern alum who went missing after a plane crash near Panama.
Eastern alum and retired...
Classes for the spring semester began Jan. 10 and despite the continued obstacles of the COVID-19 pandemic, students are ready to get started.
That includes Justus Lopresto-Jackson, a sophomore computer...
Eastern is encouraging, but not requiring, all students and employees to take COVID-19 tests upon returning to campus.
Testing will be available at Court 5 of the Student Rec Center Jan. 10, 11 and 12...
Eastern alum Sue Borries is missing after a private plane splashed into the Pacific off the coast of Panama and sank Monday.
The Associated Press is reporting that Borries is one of two American citizens...
Eastern alum and former Eastern football team member Keithan Hedrick and his wife, Quiante, will appear on the Jan. 7 episode of Shark Tank, a show that allows entrepreneurs to pitch their products or...
As 2021 comes to a close, the staff of The Daily Eastern News invites you to look back at the year through our lens.
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Governor J.B. Pritzker appointed Payton Ade, student trustee on the Board of Trustees and sophomore interpersonal communication major, to the Illinois Student Assistance Commission.
The commission’s...
During the Naming Committee meeting Wednesday, Ken Wetstein, ex-offico convener of the committee and Vice President for University Advancement, informed the committee of University President David Glassman’s...
Eastern’s Naming Committee will meet at noon Wednesday to discuss potential new names for Douglas Hall.
In the committee’s last meeting, members had received a list of recommendations from University...
![Kate Montgomery (right), a freshman psychology major, gets instruction from Corey Bentley, a senior health administration major, at the COVID-19 testing site in the Lantz Arena Fieldhouse on Dec. 2, 2020. [I] just want to make sure I don’t have COVID so I don’t spread it with any family or friends. I’m staying here but I visit home every weekend, Montgomery said.](https://www.dailyeasternnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/FEAT-COLOR-KD-900x600.jpg)
