A 25-year-old man was shot several times Saturday morning outside a tavern in Kankakee. The victim was taken to a hospital with what police reported as non life-threatening injuries.
Kankakee police responded to Jag's Bar on N...
The demise of family values bothers now-retired Judge Gordon Lustfeldt. He says accountability, or lack of it, is a growing issue that troubles society.
Judge Lustfeldt was on the bench for the last time Friday. He took time to...
Three rural Watseka residents were jailed Friday after authorities executed search warrants during a narcotics investigation.
Iroquois County Sheriff's Police, assisted by Watseka Police, made the arrests at two different...
Officials in Kankakee and Vermilion County are teaming up with the federal Drug Enforcement Administration to collect those unwanted or used prescription medicines you may have around your homes.
(Saturday) is 'Drug...
Forty high school students and staff escaped injury Thursday morning when their bus went up in flames in Iroquois County. No one was hurt when the Peoria Charter bus on its way to Chicago for a field trip smelled of smoke, then...
A $5-million dollar bond was set Thursday in Kankakee Circuit Court for the man accused of setting the apartment building fire that killed two young boys.
61-year-old Alex Sawyer is charged with 2-counts of first-degree...
The Labrador-mix (known as Bear) is making progress as he recovers from his near-death experience in Ford County. Police are also reporting progress in the case to find who's responsible for shooting him and leaving him to die...
A traffic stop west of Pontiac finds a Flanagan couple facing new heroin charges. 37-year-old James Blankenbeckler and his 32-year-old wife, Beth, were arrested Tuesday on Route 17. They were already free on bond for possession...
"It's as much a problem here as anywhere else...sexual assaults happen everywhere."
That was Wednesday's message from Iroquois County Assistant State's Attorney Alex O'Brien. He talked about sexual assault cases in Iroquois...
Illinois's budget impasse is forcing the Will County Health Department's decision to lay off 53 employees. And the lay-offs will have an impact on some 52-thousand clients, many of them children.
The layoffs follow a $2.1...
