A residential fire in Kankakee Wednesday night did an estimated $10 – 15,000 in damage. A dog did perish in the fire. No other injury, according to Fire Chief Damon Schuldt.
The chief reported the fire appears to be accidental...
A special memorial service is planned Saturday (3/16) to commemorate the 1999 Amtrak crash that killed 11 people and injured 126 more in Bourbonnais.
The 1 pm service is at Memorial Gardens at Route 102 and Route 45.
The...
22-year-old Candace Pinkstaff of Watseka was jailed in Iroquois County in connection with a stolen vehicle from Champaign County. Watseka Police assisted the Urbana Police Department in locating a reported stolen vehicle...
Illinois State Police report I-57 traffic was back to normal about 6 am today (Wed) after an early-moring crash at mile marker 237. It was a head-on colission between a car and a freightliner. Dawn Garrelts of Onarga was arrested...
In Ford County Court – 27-year-old Thomas Hoekstra pleaded guilty Tuesday to reckless homicide in connection with an August 2016 head-on crash that killed a 19-year-old Paxton woman.
Hoekstra’s plea to the Class 3 felony finds...
A Lowell, IN man is in custody after leading Newton County Sheriff deputies on a chase Tuesday. It started just before 7 am whena vehicle was clocked at 90 mph while southbound on State Road 55. 37-year-old Gerald Cramer...
City leaders in the Livingston County community of Dwight are picking local jobs over the political opinions of out-of-town protestors. Dwight's city council last night voted to annex 88 acres into the city so developers can...
A woman and child were hospitalized Monday afternoon after the SUV they were in left I-55 near Pontiac and ended up in the Vermilion River.
The two were removed from the vehicle by fire personnel. The woman was found on top the...