A 15-year-old St. Anne youth will be tried as an adult for the shooting death of a Pembroke Township man. Jayson Caldwell was indicted by a Kankakee County grand jury for the death in July of Thad Wells.
Prosecutors claim Wells...
State Representative Kate Cloonen met with Tim Carpenter, State Director of Fight Crime: Invest in Kids Illinois, Kankakee County State's Attorney Jamie Boyd, Grundy County State's Attorney Jason Helland, and Kankakee Police...
A U of I graduate student is in custody for the death of his estranged girlfriend. Urbana police arrested 29-year-old Yongfei Ci at a motel in Champaign.
Investigators report Ci is the man believed to be responsible for the...
27-year-old Bobbi Prindle of Chebanse was arrested after failing—twice – to rob local businesses in Kankakee.
Police said Prindle is jailed charged with attempted robbery.
When she failed in her attempt to rob Mario's Market...
Area unemployment rates show improvement across parts of Central Illinois. But Vermilion County's jobless rate rose slightly, going from 11.1 to 11.3 percent.
The Kankakee Metro area improved in August to 10.4%. That's down from...
A committee recommendation is suggesting dissolution of the Ford-Iroquois Public Health Department be studied.
Members of the Ford and Iroquois county boards agreed to send a recommendation to both boards, plus the bi-county...
Laura and Barry Basham of Shelby, Indiana were identified as the victims who died in a fiery crash Thursday morning near Momence.
District 21 State Police and the Kankakee County Coroner's office spent much of Thursday in the...
One man is dead after a one-car accident today in Jasper County, Indiana. 36-year-old Jason Hopkins of Goodland (IN) was driving on County Road 700 S when his vehicle left the road and hit a tree. The vehicle then rolled on to...
An update on that fiery crash on Route 17 near Momence.
The Kankakee County Coroner's office now reports one person is believed dead after a car, a dump truck and a semi truck collided this morning.
The accident happened on...
