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The Ford-Iroquois 4-H Foundation Scholarship Auction and the Cissna Park FFA Dinner-Auction are two weekend events in Iroquois County. The F-I Extension Office has info on Sunday’s 4-H Auction at St. Paul’s School in Woodworth...

North Schuyler Avenue in Kankakee is under construction. And motorists should note an alternate route is required again today (Friday). The closing is from Court Street to Hickory Street. Tyson Engineering states in a press...

A precautionary lockdown of Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School was put in place Thursday morning. The “soft” lockdown resulted from a toy gun found by two students in a restroom. The Paxton Police Department investigated and...

Riverside Healthcare is helping in the fight against overdose deaths in Kankakee County. Riverside recently presented a $5,000 check to local leaders for the purchase of Narcan. Narcan is an overdose-reversal medicine being used...

Police in Rensselaer, IN say they located meth and remnants of an old lab at a property site and arrested two people. The Jasper County Sheriff’s Office says the residence of 43-year-old William Spaulding and 36-year-old...

A Gibson City man who was found making, using and selling methamphetamine in his home with children present was sentenced to 12 years in prison. 52-year-old Kelly Burrows pleaded guilty to all eight felony charges filed against...

Three-counts of first-degree murder have been formally charged against 19-year-old Randy White of Milford. White appeared in Iroquois Circuit Court (Tuesday) for arraignment in connection with Sunday morning's shooting of a...

With a change in presidential administrations just two months away, politically appointed leaders within the U.S. Department of Agriculture are swapping out. Director for USDA Rural Development Colleen Callahan is getting ready...

Jon Krenek, a longtime reporter for the Daily Journal who headed the newspaper's investigations team and championed its watchdog role in the community, died Tuesday afternoon after a brief and sudden battle with a rare...

A car and a semi truck-tractor collided at Route 1/17 and County Road 500 N in Kankakee County Monday, killing the car’s driver. 23-year-old Rachel Gray turned left into the path of the freightliner, according to Illinois State...