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Public Works employees in Watseka have a new three-year pact with the city. Union workers represented by Local 751 will see a 2.5 percent raise in each year of the contract. General laborers' will get a pay hike up to $13 per...

Investigators say the motive was revenge. And a 61-year-old man now is charged with murder and arson for the Kankakee fire that killed two young boys. Alex Sawyer has been arrested for the April 13th fire that resulted in the...

Forty-seven-year-old Earl Blair of Watseka died in a single-car crash Monday. It happened on Route 1/17 at Kankakee County Road 7940 E. just before 4:40 pm. Illinois State Police report the car ran off the road and hit a utility...

That car-train accident in Rensselaer, IN reported Monday on 94.1 WGFA involved a Goodland, Indiana man. 34-year-old Miguel Serrano Hernandez was in stable condition (Monday). Police said his car was hit by a train on North...

Champaign authorities hope an autopsy and forensic pathology will lead to the identification of a body recovered from Clinton Lake Sunday. Meanwhile, police say the case of a young woman missing for nearly a week has shifted from...

Emergency responders answered a call to a car-train collision Sunday night in Rensselaer, Indiana. Details are sketchy. One person was airlifted to Christ Advocate Hospital in Oak Lawn (IL). Police said a male driver was...

Eighteen-year-old Emanuel Rosenthal of Kankakee is charged with murder for the shooting death of 53-year-old Leon Tucker of Kankakee. Kankakee Police arrested Rosenthal Friday. No details were released as to what led...

An Oxford, Indiana man is accused of a sexual relationship with a minor. 43-year-old Chad Leuck was arrested Wednesday in Benton County. Charges against him include Child Solicitation, Child Exploitation, and Sexual Misconduct...

Blue-light specials in Danville are coming to an end. The Big K-Mart Store is closing its doors. Sears Holdings Corp. announced Thursday that the Kmart store on N. Vermilion Street in Danville is one of 68 Kmart stores and 10...

                   Denial ends process for seeking federal assistance The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) today denied the...