A Kankakee Community College professor has been nominated for Campus Compact’s 2019 Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award.
Campus Compact, a national coalition of more than 1,000 colleges and universities committed to...
Illinois moving toward partial online firefighter training. The new course to become a firefighter in Illinois could make it a lot easier.
About 70 percent of firefighters in Illinois are volunteers. But the ranks are thinning...
The Bourbonnais Fire Protection District was dispatched to a reported structure fire in the 800 Block of Heather Drive, in Bourbonnais Monday. Smoke was discovered coming from the garage on arrival. Firemen were...
There will be an appeal, but convicted killer Rex Frank was sentenced to life in prison Friday in Kankakee Court. Judge Clark Erickson called Frank a “cold-blooded murderer.” Frank was convicted for the shooting death of Sarah...
Watseka Polcie investigated a report of a stolen vehicle Friday in the 200-block of S. 4th Street. 24-year-old Tyler Bruens and 24-year-old Cristina Karnet, both of Watseka, were charged with possession of a stollen vehicle and...
Benton County, In sheriff's police say a Goodland, IN man was arrated for criminal recklessness and obstructing traffic after a road rage incident Sunday. 24-year-old Austin Nelson operated a pickup truck recklessly causing...
An assistant baseball coach in suburban Beecher is accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl. Authorities say Micheal Takacs made inappropriate contact with the victim on two occasions before sexually assaulting her on April...
Military announcements (Monday) from the National Guard. Members of the Guard, including those based at the Greater Kankakee Airport, are being deployed to Afghanistan. (Kankakee-based Company C, 1st Battalion, 178th Infantry...
The Indiana State Police along with Troopers from Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Michigan and Pennsylvania will be conducting state-wide patrols targeting violations of the “Move Over” laws in each of those states beginning...
The Iroquois County Fairgrounds will serve as the funeral setting for long-time Fair Board president Marvin Perzee of Ashkum. He died last Wednesday morning, the day this year’s fair opened for its 2019 run. Perzee served as Fair...
