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A Hoopeston meth dealer was sentenced to 42-months in prison following a plea agreement in Livingston County Court. 29-year-old Coty Morgeson was given credit for 104 days in the county jail. He’ll also serve another two years...

A driver escaped injury, but an occupant inside a house was injured when a vehicle ran into a house in Kankakee Monday afternoon. It happened about 4 pm at Webster Circle. No word on why the driver lost control. The car ended up...

Kankakee Fire reports a Sunday morning house fire appears to have accidental. Chief Damon Schuldt said no one was injured. The cause was under investigation. The fire broke out a little before 7 am in the 600-block of Country...

An 11-year-old girl drowned after being swept away Sunday on Wildcat Creek in Indiana.  The un-identified girl was swimming with her 13-year-old brother when the current took them.  The boy was able to get himself out...

It appears to have been a double-drowning over the weekend on the Kankakee River. Two people are missing while two others were rescued (Sunday) near the mouth of the Indian Caves and the river. Emergency personnel were dispatched...

               CORRECTION:   This news story, earlier, in-correctly printed that inmate Andre Maiden died at a local hospital. He was found...

A second inmate, found unresponsive in his cell at the Iroquois County Jail this week, has died. The family of Jason Fancher confirms he died last (Thurs) evening at a Champaign County hospital. He had been listed in critical...

“Saturation Saturday” is tomorrow (Saturday). Those of you on the road can expect to see more police patrols. Law enforcement is teaming up with IDOT and MADD to make sure motorists know drunk and drugged driving is a serious...

U.S. Congressman Adam Kinzinger said (Thursday) the closings of Byron and Dresden power plants is "a gut-punch to the people of Illinois, especially the counties that sirround these generating stations. Hundreds of people...

               Second inmate hospitalized on life-support — The death of an Iroquois County Jail inmate and the hospitalization of a second inmate are being...