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Hot 8@8 Countdown: 10/4/2018
It's your throwback Thursday! As tradition, we had a reversal retro-rewind as part of our pop culture trivia! Miley Cyrus's album Bangerz came out 5 years ago, which officially makes "Wrecking Ball" a...
Oct 04, 2018
I-70 Westbound Lanes Temporarily Closed
Crews are on-site of a semi fire that occurred Thursday evening on Interstate 70. The site of the accident is around the 31 mile marker. According to police, westbound lanes of I-70 are closed until f...
Oct 04, 2018
It Now Costs $230,000 to Raise a Kid From Birth to Age 18
Before you have a kid, or another kid, think about this: Instead, you could buy yourself a decent condo in Fort Myers, Florida. Yeah. Mind blown, right? Merrill Lynch just put out their annual report ...
Oct 04, 2018 photon_de / CC
A New Type of Glasses Forces You to Stop Staring at TV and Computer Screens by Making Them Look Blank
It's almost impossible to go a whole day without staring at a screen . . . TVs, computers, your phone. They're everywhere. And according to a recent study, we now spend 11 hours a DAY staring at scree...
Oct 04, 2018 Emma Royle / CC
The Top Ten Ways to Live to 100, According to People Who've Done It
Someone looked at 100 interviews done with people who lived to be at least 100 years old. Then they compared them all to come up with a list of the ten most common TIPS they gave for making it past th...
Oct 04, 2018
It's National Taco Day, Which Means There Are Free Tacos Everywhere
Today is National Taco Day . . . but in a way, isn't EVERY day kind of National Taco Day? The good news is that a BUNCH of big Mexican food chains are giving away free tacos today. Except for Taco Bel...
Oct 04, 2018 Karl-Martin Skontorp / CC
Five Mile House Fall Festival
The Five Mile House Fall Festival is this Sunday (10/7) from 1-4 p.m. They'll have live music, crafts, petting zoo, cooking, blacksmithing, weaving, knitting, apple cider pressing and other demonstrat...
Oct 04, 2018
Old Time Fiddle Contest
The Illinois Old Time Fiddle Contest will be held this Sunday (10/7) at the Effingham Performance Center. The contest is part of "Fiddle Fest," a benefit concert that starts on Saturday (10/6). Any fi...
Oct 04, 2018
Hot 8@8 Countdown: 10/3/2018
It's Hump Day! We've reached the midpoint of our week and our third edition of the countdown for the first week of October! On Monday we had a new champion, and now Marshmellow is trying to start a st...
Oct 03, 2018
What's the Strongest Word to Describe Something You Like: Fantastic, Great, Incredible, or Something Else?
We have a lot of words we use to describe something we like. We can call it good or great or incredible or 50 other adjectives. But which ones are the STRONGEST? A new survey asked people to rank diff...
Oct 03, 2018
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