The beating of a senior citizen nearly three years ago in Iroquois County has a Buckley man standing trial this next week. 27-year-old Shayne Weber is charged with causing great bodily harm to a 67-year-old man outside a Buckley...
A 17-year-old from Kankakee will stand trial as an adult for the shooting of another man during an armed robbery in early December. Parrish Person is charged with robbery and aggravated battery for the early-morning incident on...
A St. Anne man died Wednesday after falling into a grain bin at the Whitaker Grain Elevator, near Manteno. 58-year-old Chester Cleveland was trapped after falling 70-feet while trying to clean the bin. He was pronounced dead at 1...
The Rev. Jesse Jackson is delivering some muscle to bring elected officials together in Pembroke Township in another push to have eastern Kankakee County acquire natural gas service. Meetings have drawn elected leaders and...
A worker is dead following an accident at a grain company in Kankakee County. Chester Cleveland fell 70-feet into a grain bin at the Whitaker Grain Elevator near Manteno while trying to clean the bin yesterday. A second employee...
The National Weather Service reports the threat of heavy rain and flooding continues for Danville and parts of Vermilion County and beyond for Friday and Saturday. The NWS tracking system now shows heavier rains for parts of...
The federal holiday to remember civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will stretch over three days in Kankakee. Dr. King’s birthday on January 20 includes that day’s Prayer Breakfast in Bradley, an Ecumenical Service and...
The unseasonably warm holiday season in Illinois broke records. State Climatologist Trent Ford says the preliminary statewide December average temperature was 35.2 degrees, good for the 18th warmest on record.
Temps...
The unseasonably warm holiday season in Illinois broke records. State Climatologist Trent Ford says the preliminary statewide December average temperature was 35.2 degrees, good for the 18th warmest on record. Temps reached...
