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Illinois State Police District 21 is reporting the arrest of 34-year-old Lamar V. Lillard of St. Anne for Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol and 27-year-old Vernon M. Griffith of St. Anne Wanted on a Warrant.    ...

21-year-old Cameron Sifrer of Demotte, Indiana man is jailed in Jasper County, IN after, what detectives say, was a weekend drunken dispute that left another man dead. Sifrer is being held without bond on a charge of murder. ...

River Valley Metro continues to grow to meet the needs of their passengers. On July 8th, Metro kicked off their newest fixed route, Route 12 The North South Connector. The North South Connector will travel from St. Vincent DePaul...

A federal grand jury indicted a Kankakee man this week on two-counts of using interstate commerce facilities in commission of a murder-for-hire plot. 32-year-old Joshua Bisping allegedly attempted to hire an undercover agent to...

A Gibson City man died after crashing his motorcycle in Iroquois County. Illinois State Police report 70 year-old Rodney Cote was driving on Illinois Route One at around 6 am Thursday. His bike left the road, went into the ditch...

Three conservation groups filed a federal lawsuit in Chicago that says the Illiana Expressway approval process has been flawed and the road shouldn't be built. Lawyers say the Federal Highway Administration should not have...

Livingston County Sheriff marty Meredith is hoping a meeting next week with state officials will kick-start his plan to reopen  a part of the women's prison at Dwight.  The sheriff's plan is to use a portion of the...

Another political figure is stepping aside. State Representative Pam Roth announced today (Wed) she's resigning from the state legislature. The Morris Republican is moving to Texas with her family. Roth said her husband has been...

A five-hour Iroquois County Board meeting (Tuesday) included a range of newsy matters of interest, none of which lacked comment from board members and the public. The brunt of the meeting centered, again, on the Ford-Iroquois...

It'll be a few months, at least, before a county board seat is filled in Vermilion County. The District 7 seat of the late-Larry Mills won't be filled until September at earliest. That's from officials in Vermilion County. The...