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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...

                                State’s Attorney calls Jesus Larosa “a...

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...

Illinois State Police report I-57 traffic was back to normal about 6 am today (Wed) after an early-moring crash at mile marker 237. It was a head-on colission between a car and a freightliner. Dawn Garrelts of Onarga was arrested...

In Ford County Court – 27-year-old Thomas Hoekstra pleaded guilty Tuesday to reckless homicide in connection with an August 2016 head-on crash that killed a 19-year-old Paxton woman. Hoekstra’s plea to the Class 3 felony finds...

A Lowell, IN man is in custody after leading Newton County Sheriff deputies on a chase Tuesday.  It started just before 7 am whena vehicle was clocked at 90 mph while southbound on State Road 55. 37-year-old Gerald Cramer...