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A tanker truck crash that resulted in the deaths of five people now has an Illinois lawmaker wanting accountablity by the Illinois Department of Transportation.  Represenative Adam Niemerg says efforts to get IDOT to address...

Illinois State Police investigated a multi-vehicle crash in Iroquois County Monday that leaves a Cissna Park woman dead. 64-year-old Betty Reetz died Monday night at Carle Hospital in Urbana. Champaign County Coroner Duane...

Milford High School Campus has been ranked No. 6,764 in the nation among the 2023-2024 Best High Schools by U.S. News & World Report. The rankings evaluate more than 17,600 schools at the national, state, and local level...

Illinois is experiencing a blood supply emergency.  Lifesaving blood products that cancer patients, sickle cell patients, hemophiliacs and others need for survival are at dangerously low levels, Dr. Dan Waxman, vice...

Illinois State Police (ISP) Troop 5 Commander Capt. Tim Sweeney, announces the ISP will conduct Occupant Restraint Enforcement Patrols (OREP) in Ford, Iroquois, Kankakee, Livingston, and McLean Counties on October 4th, 25th...

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias filed administrative rules that would increase the age at which a driver is required to pass a driving test when they renew their license, raising it from 75 to 79. The rules –...

A motor home was involved in a multi-vehicle crash in Newton County, Indiana Thursday leaving a Lake Village woman dead and her husband seriously injured.  The 73-year-old woman killed has not been identified.  Her...

The Vermilion County Health Department has appointed a new public health administrator.  Dr. Prince Danso Odei comes from the Florida Department of Health, where he was an administrator and Disease Prevention & Control...

A native of Covington, IN is the new administrator for the Ford County Public Health Department.  49-year-old Donald Gill is on the job.  He replaces former administrator Lana Sample, who left the area for a new public...

Mrs. Jean Hiles was honored last weekend with the honor of 2023 UWF Woman-of-the-Year.  Hiles earned the United Women in Faith Woman of the Year recognition for the Iroquois River District of the United Methodist...