The Chicago Bears 1985 quarterback is making a weekend appearance in Hoopeston this Saturday. Jim McMahon, who guided the Bears to a Super Bowl title, will visit Sports & Ivy sports shop where he’ll sign autographs.
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A Rankin woman is dead after a car crash Tuesday afternoon. It happened south of Clarence at 2600 E and 200 N. 84-year-old Mary Diskin was pronounced dead at Carle Hospital in Urbana Tuesday afternoon. The Champaign County...
A 32-year-old Waukegan (IL) man was jailed in Watseka following his arrest for possession of a stolen vehicle. Najee Benjamin was arrested by Iroquois County Sheriff's Police. He was wanted on a local...
The Kankakee County State’s Attorney’s Office (SAO) and Kankakee School District No.111 (District 111) are pleased to announce receipt of the United States Department of Justice 3-year STOP School Violence Mental Health Training...
Theo Chester of Kankakee is facing up to 20 years in prison after a jury (Friday) found him guilty of second-degree murder. Chester was found responsible for the stabbing death of his brother, George Chester, in August of...
Attorneys representing Terrence Haynes of Kankakee are seeking relief for a man wrongfully-convicted in a 1999 murder case. Haynes served 20 years in prison for the 1999 shooting of Cezaire Murrell. Haynes had been sentenced to...
The death of an Indiana woman found in a Benton County home was the result of strangulation by a snake. 36-year-old Laura Hurst of Battle Ground (IN) was found dead in a house in Oxford, south of Fowler. Her body was found with...
This Sunday it’s time to fall back. At 2 a.m. Sunday you gain an hour, we fall back by changing the time to 1 a.m. The Illinois Fire Marshal says while you’re changing the clocks around the house this weekend, you should...
State Representative Lindsay Parkhurst (R – Kankakee) sponsored several pieces of legislation this week during the Veto Session to push for ethics reform in Springfield. The legislation includes HB 361, HB 3947, and HJR 87.
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