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CRESCENT CITY -- An early-morning fire today (Wed) at the Spring Creek Campground, northwest of Crescent City, left a 60-year-old man dead. Kenneth Sailer was pronounced dead at the scene AT 5:50 am by Coroner Bill Cheatum. The...

The public is being asked to help locate a missing Momence woman and her 12-year-old son, missing since July 9th. Fifty-three year-old Francine Cooks-Mason and her son, Gregory, are the subjects of a missing report. They haven't...

Forty-two-year-old Michael L. Junior of Kankakee has been missing since last Friday. A missing person report issued by Kankakee Police Tuesday states Junior was last in the 1900 block of East Chestnut Street. Junior is described...

Illinois 49 in eastern Champaign County was reopened to traffic Tuesday morning following a truck rollover earlier that morning. Illinois State Police at Pesotum reported soybeans spilled out of a truck between Ogden and Homer a...

Department of Natural Resource officials have reported the body of a Hammond, Indiana man who drowned Saturday evening at JC Murphy Lake has been found. The body of 22-year-old Saul Lopez was recovered Tuesday morning by the...

A 36-year-old Watseka man, already jailed on other charges in Iroquois County, now faces an armed robbery arrest for an last October. Claude Tiffany will have to answer to new charges of armed robbery and attempted armed...

A Ford County marijuana-growing operation was busted up by authorities, resulting the arrest of a rural Clifton man. 60-year-old James Crane will face charges in Ford County Circuit Court. The operation was discovered in the...

Iroquois County Sheriff Derek Hagen reports the the Iroquois County Jail is in full compliance with Illinois Department of Corrections standards. That's according to an inspection of the facility completed July 16 by IDOC...

A judge in Ford County dismissed all charges against a Chicago man whom police described as the "mastermind" behind a December 2013 kidnapping and armed robbery of a Paxton businessman. It was the prosecution's motion to dismiss...

U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger's office will hold traveling office hours in Ford, Iroquois and Livingston counties this week. Office hours will be held in Sibley, Crescent City, Loda, and Forrest. Staff members will be at Sibley from...