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Illinois's budget impasse is forcing the Will County Health Department's decision to lay off 53 employees. And the lay-offs will have an impact on some 52-thousand clients, many of them children. The layoffs follow a $2.1...

A Low pressure moving across the central Plains will continue to bring storm chances across central Illinois today. Some of the storms could be strong to severe with gusty winds, heavy rain and some hail. A frontal boundary...

A dog found shot and left tied to a bridge in Ford County is showing signs of improving. The News-Gazette reports the dog was discovered last week (April 20) near Sibley. Ford County Sheriff Mark Doran reported a man walking his...

It's time again to take a stand against sexual violence. The 3rd annual 'Take Back the Night" event this (Wed) evening Watseka is asking advocates, survivors and supporters to come together. ISAS – Iroquois Sexual Assault...

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...