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Law enforcement agents executed a search warrant in Manteno last week, seizing 2 kilos of cocaine and suspected LSD.  Other drug materials were also collected.  22-year-old Zachary Zielinski is charged with cocaine...

Illinois State Police are mourning the death of trooper Chris Lambert, who died Saturday after he was struck by a vehicle while handling an accident in northern Illinois. Director Leo Schmitz reported Lambert was on the scene of...

A massive winter snowstorm that blanketed several Midwest states was a factor in at least five road deaths on Saturday and forced the grounds crew to scramble to clear snow from Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City ahead of the NFL...

Clean-up is under after the weekend snow left roads snowpacked and several vehicles in ditches.  More snow is expected by week's end into Saturday.  Forecasters are tracking a system that could hit central parts of...

URBANA -- Former Kankakee Valley Park District executive director Roy Collins was handed a 42-month federal prison sentence today (Friday). He’s ordered to report to the Bureau of Prisons February 26th. The 48-year-old Collins...

                              CURRENT ALERT.. . -- Caution on roadways -- Winter...

State Representative Lindsay Parkhurst (R – Kankakee), Tom Bennett (R-Gibson City), Mike Maron (R-Fithian), and Dan Brady (R-Bloomington) were sworn in to serve in the Illinois House of Representatives for the 101st General...

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Phillip M. Kambic, Riverside President and CEO has been named Chair-elect to the Illinois Health & Hospital Association's 2019 Board of Trustees. IHA serves to represent more than 200 hospitals and nearly 50 health systems...

The proposed merger of Crescent-Iroquois School Districr #249 and Watseka Community School District #9 is the subject of a Community Meeting Wednesday, January 16.  The 6 pm meeting is scheduled at tzhe Watseka Unit Nine...