URBANA -- A federal jury has found Jimmy LaCost guilty of 54 counts of illegally structuring financial transactions.
LaCost owned and operated LaCost Amusements in the Kankakee area. The...
Iroquois and Ford County’s jobless rates fell in March; the last report showing all of Illinois’ metro areas falling. It’s the first time all of the state’s metro areas showed a marked-decline since 2011.
McLean County...
Following up on an earlier committee vote, the Watseka City Council this week voted to increase water and sewer rates.
A graduated rate hike begins May 1st and will increase each year thru 2016. The City Council voted 4-2...
--National Severe Weather Preparedness Week April 22 – 28
WATSEKA---Iroquois County officials plan a double test of community emergency sirens on Tuesday, May 1st.
The testing will be in conjunction...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- An Illinois state registry for first-degree murder convicts has topped 500 people.
The (Bloomington) Pantagraph reports convicts who have completed their sentences and been released are on the...
— Listening to a weather radio is probably a good idea today. Threatening weather is possible.
The National Weather Service (NWS) reports T-storms, gusty winds and hail are in the forecast for parts of the...
Kankakee County Sheriff’s Police have announced an arrest in last Monday's shooting death of 32-year-old Tawayne Sharp.
27-year-old Corey Gardner of Kankakee was arrested early Saturday morning when he turned himself into...
KANKAKEE -- Illinois State Police arrested a Peotone man Tuesday after he committed a lewd act in the Kankakee State Park.
Sixty-year-old Ronald C. Noble was jailed at the Jerome Combs Detention Center on a charge of...
The Kankakee County State’s Attorney’s Office reports a 61-year-old Herscher man is accused of sexually abusing two young relatives.
Charles Baker was arrested March 16th and charged with a Class 1 felony of criminal...
WATSEKA -- In Iroquois Circuit Court Tuesday, two Kankakee men facing felony theft charges from the Iroquois Paving Corporation were allowed to bond out of jail while a Champaign man facing a DUI charge agreed to a 30-month...
