Ron Dudley now says he'll continue serving as mayor of Loda. He had announced earlier this month he would resign, effective September 1. The News-Gazette reports Dudley had changed his mind, and that a special meeting scheduled...
An un-identified woman is hospitalized in stable condition after a weekend shooting in Watseka. The woman was air-lifted to Carle Hospital in Urbana. Her name was withheld while her family was notified.
Watseka Police report the...
A four-vehicle crash on I-57 north of Gilman Saturday left a suburban-Chicago man dead. 53-year-old Shuwei Chen of Morton Grove was pronounced dead at the scene.
Illinois State Police and the Iroquois County Coroner's Office are...
The Prospect bank is steppin' up ! The Prospect bank, a division of Edgar County Bank & Trust Company, has announced an acquisition. That brings to nine, the number of locations serving customers in east-central...
There was anoother successful auction for Christ Lutheran High School at Buckley. The faculty, staff, students, and auction committee extends a 'Thank You' to those who donated and attended to show support for a Christian...
Members of the Watseka, IL Modern Woodmen Chapter 12218, recently gathered to plant two trees in Watseka. The lasting-gifts to the community finds the trees located at Clement Pond in Lakeview Park.
The project was part of the...
A Fowler man who tried to fake his own kidnapping to avoid paying child support is spending a couple of months in jail.
Fowler police and State police were investigating the possible kidnapping of 25-year-old Cody Mikeworth when...
Iroquois County State's Attorney Jim Devine plans to "put the pieces of the puzzle together" to show that murder-defendant Andrew Condon had motive and created opportunity in the shooting death of Jonathan Rubin at a Gilman gas...
In Champaign County... a Monticello man gets a four year prison sentence for stealing $37,000 from his grandmother.
45-year-old Douglas Whitehouse will also have to serve two years of mandatory supervised release after the...
As the new school year gets underway, teachers in the Herscher district have a new five-year contract in place while the PBL teachers have agreed to a fresh three-year pact.
The usual three-year contract is actually a 5-year...
