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At least two new people will serve the Kankakee City Council after the April 2nd election. Vote results from a low voter turnout in Tuesday's Primary shows Ward 1 and Ward 6 will find new faces taking seats in the...

A committee may be organizing to keep the popular St. Anne Pumpkin Fest alive. A meeting Monday evening had group stepping up to take over after longtime organizers, Bob Hubert and Barb Deneau, announced they’d be stepping aside...

The Dwight Village Board has put off until next month a vote on a proposed ICE detention facility. Any vote would be for annexation of an 88-acre tract of land at the border of the village limits. Mayor Jared Anderson reports a...

The Newton County Fair and Fair Oaks Farms are happy to announce that the Oak Ridge Boys will be performing at the Newton County Pun’kin Vine Fair in Kentland, Indiana, on Saturday, July 20th at 8 pm CST. Don’t miss your chance...

A 23-year-old Kankakee man is facing 45 yeras to life in prison following his guilty plea (Monday) to first-degree murder. Dequan Morris entered a blind plea in Kankakee Circuit Court. Kevin Wright was shot to death on N...

Call it a fence or call it a wall, one Illinois congressman says he now believes wholeheartedly that the U.S. needs something along the border with Mexico. Congressman Adam Kinzinger went to Facebook yesterday (Monday) to make...

The Kankakee City Council offers voters contested races in the primary election set for Tuesday. There are Democratic primaries in the 1st, 2nd and 6th wards. The 6th Ward seat is open because longtime incumbent Dennis Baron is...

Police in Bradley are calling it an armed robbery in Wednesday’s incident where shots were allegedly fired. Police responded to a report of a robbery where shots were fired Wednesday night in the 13-hundred block of Inglesh...

Indiana Conservation Officers investigated the death of a Rensselaer man who fell through the ice Saturday afternoon on a private pond in Jasper County. 48-year-old Timothy Powers was pronounced dead at a local hospital after...