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The 4-year-old boy involved in Monday's fatal two-vehicle crash in rural Beecher is the latest fatality, the Will County Sheriff's Department reported today. Weston Schmidt died from his injuries at 5:55 p.m. Tuesday at Comers...

The annual Loda Good Ole Days celebration is scheduled this weekend (July 28 thru July 30). Featured activities include a parade, mud volleyball tournament, barn dance, truck and tractor pull, kids’ games and fireworks. All...

A former Paxton man whose previous conviction was overturned admitted to a drug charge and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. In Macon County court Tuesday, 35 year-old Eddi Ramirez pleaded guilty to a charge of calculated...

A 20-yr-old murder case in Kankakee is about to take a new turn. Aureliuse “Buddy” Piper was convicted and sentenced to 39-years in prison for the 1997 murders of three people – M.T. Hawkins Sr., Patricia Easter (who was Easter’s...

A State Trooper was conducting foot patrol at the Iroquois County Fair Saturday and was advised of an individual consuming alcohol on the fairgrounds property, which is prohibited. The trooper approached 19-yr-old Charlie...

A Beecher mother, who was pregnant, and her 2-year-old son died in a two-vehicle crash that also critically injured her two older sons Monday morning near Beecher. 29-year-old Lindsey Schmidt was four months pregnant, according...

A 12-yr-old Cissna Park has died of injuries from a traffic c accident over the weekend. Champaign County Coroner Duane Northrup is releasing the name 12 year old Jacob Rose. He was a passenger involved in a single motor vehicle...

FUTURE STARS OF IROQUOIS COUNTY DIVISION (non-state eligible): 1st Place: Let’s Take Two – Tap Duet: Aaron Greene & Vanysah Hickman, both from Watseka 2nd Place: Baby Mine – Vocal Solo: Audrey Neukomm from Cissna...

Manteno officials are asking for the public's help in naming a new plaza.  A contest will review suggestions submitted between now and September 1st.  The hope is to have the 2nd Street plaza ready for the Oktoberfest...

An Indiana woman was a killed (Saturday) in a single-vehicle motorcycle crash near Lake Village, IN. 54-year-old Tammy Johnson was a passenger on a Harley-Davidson driven by 56-yr-old man Richard Neese of Wilmington (IL)...