The "Paint Your Path" 5K honoring Watseka teacher/coach Brent McTaggart is set for Saturday. The event is to be held at 8 am Saturday at Watseka Community High School. Check-in is from 7 – 8 am.
Several businesses and...
Paxton – State Senator Jason Barickman(R-Bloomington) visited PBL Junior and Senior High Schools Thursday, to hear from the students and let them know what their leaders in Springfield are working on this session.
"These bright...
In Kankakee Court Thursday, Phillip Horrell was sentenced to life behind bars for the October 2012 murder of 81-year-old Dr. James Goldenstein. The doctor's wife, Betty. was also beaten.
Horrell expressed remorse, saying he was...
The Buckeye Partners pipeline group said 'Thank You' today (Thurs) to Kankakee County for help in last month's gasoline pipeline spill in Limestone Township.
Buckeye's Sr. Manager, Pat Hodgins, said monitoring continues to make...
(Springfield, IL) -- Dan Rutherford is planning to ask a judge to toss out the sexual harassment lawsuit against him. His attorneys will head to court tomorrow to try to convince a judge that there isn't enough evidence to prove...
Republican gubernatorial candidates Bruce Rauner told a Kankakee audience Wednesday "he'll know Illinois is on the road back when Kankakee County is thriving again."
At the Majestic Theatre, were some 200 people gathered, Rauner...
MONTICELLO, Ind.– Monticello firefighters said a four-year-old child who was playing with a lighter started a fire which made his family homeless Tuesday afternoon.
Investigators said the boy was playing with a lighter...
The Buckeye Partners pipeline group is addressing the recent Limestone Township spill (Thursday). The company along with Wood River Pipe Lines LLC is scheduled to meet at the Kankakee County Sheriff's Complex.
Buckeye Partners...
NEWTON CO., Ind.--– Three people are dead after a crash involving a semi and an SUV on Interstate 65 in Newton County this (Tuesday) morning.
The crash happened just before 1 am when an SUV hit a semi that was stopped on I-65...
By The Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD - State agriculture officials say wet, cold weather has kept Illinois farmers out of their fields this spring. Only 1 percent of the corn crop has been planted.
The Illinois Department of...
