New unemployment numbers show the jobless rates have been rising across East Central Illinois. The January numbers are latest figures available from the Illinois Department of Employment Security and U.S. Bureau of Labor...
State Representative Tom Bennett of Gibson City is out of the hospital and back home recovering. Bennett was involved in a serious traffic accident last week in McLean County. He’s expressing his thanks to emergency responders...
The National Weather Service has canceled the tornado watch issued earlier this (Thur) afternoon. Storms have "rapidly pushed to the northeast."
The high wind warning remains. University of Illinois Willard Airport in Savoy...
22-year-old Brittany A. Are-Latosa of Chicago was jailed in Watseka after State Police stopped her vehicle for speeding Tuesday on I-57. A search of the vehicle revealed more than 19-hundred grams of cannabis.
The vehicle was...
Watseka Police report there may be more arrests, but for now, a Watseka man is jailed in Iroquois County for residential burglary and theft. 32-year-old James Musselman is also charged with criminal damage to...
A Jasper County man is in custody after allegedly stabbing a Wheatfield man twice. Investigators said 24-yr-old Thomas Lewandowski got into an argument at a home in the Remington area when he allegedly pulled a knife.
The Jasper...
A residential fire in Kankakee Wednesday night did an estimated $10 – 15,000 in damage. A dog did perish in the fire. No other injury, according to Fire Chief Damon Schuldt.
The chief reported the fire appears to be accidental...
A special memorial service is planned Saturday (3/16) to commemorate the 1999 Amtrak crash that killed 11 people and injured 126 more in Bourbonnais.
The 1 pm service is at Memorial Gardens at Route 102 and Route 45.
The...
22-year-old Candace Pinkstaff of Watseka was jailed in Iroquois County in connection with a stolen vehicle from Champaign County. Watseka Police assisted the Urbana Police Department in locating a reported stolen vehicle...
