The Illinois House approved a ban on privately-funded civil detention centers before one could be built in central Illinois. The state had previously banned for-profit prisons, but not civil detention centers.
The bill passed...
The 42nd Annual Ag Day at Danville Area Community College next week will find a visitor in Illinois Ag Director John Sullivan. Sullivan is going to be attending the ag lunch on Thursday, April 18th in the Mary Miller Gym.
The...
The Newton County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help finding a person detectives want to talk to about the Nicole Bowen death investigation.
Talitha Beckley is wanted for questioning. Officials ask if you know...
A Momence man died as a result of injuries he sustained in a crash involving two motorcycles on East River North Road west of Momence.
68-year-old John Robbins was pronounced dead at Riverside Medical Center a little before 9 pm...
A Danforth man and a Bourbonnais resident were arrested in separate incidents by Iroquois County Sheriff's Police. 55-year-old William Morrisette is charged with DUI and driving while license suspended. He was also found to...
A 27-year-old from Kentland has been taken into custody by Investigators from the Newton County Prosecutor's Office. Christopher Channing Mathis is jailed in Kentland.
Officials had issued a warrant for "assisting a criminal"...
A short-lived retirement for Dr. John Avendano. The retiring Kankakee Community College President has been named president of Florida State College at Jacksonville.
Avendano was one of 74 applicants for the Florida...
Sherriff's Police in Newton County, IN are reporting the arrest of 21-year-old Garrett K. Kirts of Lebanon for the murder of Nicole Bowen.
As reported earlier here on 94.1 / 96.9 WIBK, Bowenn's body was found north of Kentland...
A two-alarm fire in Kankakee this (Friday) morning destroyed a building that housed three businesses. Kankakee Fire Chief Damon Schuldt said the warehouse structure on Grinnell Road went up in flames around 5 am .....all three...
