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One person is dead and nine families are homeless after an apartment fire at the Parkview Apartment complex in Rensselaer, IN. Thursday morning’s fire is believed to have started in the kitchen of one of the nine apartments in...

Agents with the Kankakee Area Metropolitan Enforcement Group (KAMEG) seized 75 cultivated cannabis plants from a property site in Milford (Tuesday). Agents executed a search warrant at 2013 E and 750 N Road were they located...

Several armed robberies have plagued at least a handful of Illinois communities, including Manteno and Peotone. Police report it’s believed the robbers stole a car in Chicago and drove as far south as Manteno, holding people up...

A former automobile dealership building went up in flames overnight in Kankakee. What was the old Key City Chevrolet dealership at Court Street and Chicago Avenue sustained damage. Un-official reports claim the roof and walls...

Brook, Indiana Fire Chief Kyle Conrad reports a barn fire (Tuesday) in Newton County was “suspicious.” Conrad says it was a a total loss. There was no injury. The Brook Fire Department answered the call about 1 pm. Mutual aid...

Watseka attorney Michael Sabol will serve the 21st Judicial Circuit as its news Associate Judge. The Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts announced (Tuesday) Sabol will fill a vacancy on the bench. He fills the vacancy...

Iroquois County voters will get an opportunity to say Yes or No to a public safety tax in November. The County Board (Tuesday) voted 11-5 to place a quarter-cent sales tax on the November 8 ballot -- to fund public safety...

The Kankakee County grand jury has indicted Keon Stokes for 2-counts of first-degree murder for the beating death of his young son. The charge against the Kankakee man was upgraded from aggravated battery after an autopsy and...

Bond was set at #100,000 today (Tuesday) for Abacuc Rodriquez of Watseka. The 45-year-old is charged with Aggravated Domestic Battery for the beating he allegedly put on his girlfriend over the weekend. Rodriquez remained jailed...

Illinois State police are investigating a Sunday morning car crash that killed a veteran Bourbonnais firefighter. 31-year-old Jessica Campbell was pronounced dead at the scene of what police report as a two-car crash on Kankakee...