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The Champaign County Coroner's Office is confirming an inmate who tried to hang himself at the Ford County Jail has died. 52-year-old David A. Reeder of Gibson City died Friday at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana. The results...

        Fowler Police working with Chicago investigators   It's a death investigation in Chicago that may be connected to a missing-person report in Fowler, Indiana. A man's body parts...

Absentee voting is available at the Iroquois and Kankakee County Clerk's Offices. Registered voters can vote in person at the offices in Watseka and Kankakee. The offices are open Monday thru Friday from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm...

A 23-year-old Onarga man is dead after he was hit by a freight train early Sunday in Iroquois County. Juan Ochoa was pronounced dead at the scene, about a mile north of Danforth. Sheriff's Police and the Coroner's Office are...

Two more men have been arrested as part of a federal investigation on weapons and drug charges. Both suspects are in federal custody with the U.S. Marshals Service pending trial. The arrests are the result of a Kankakee Project...

Five medical marijuana application sites in the State Police District 21 territory are among the applications Illinois officials will review. Figures released Thursday by state officials shows competition among companies seeking...

Testimony resumed today in the Livingston County murder trial of Heather Lamie. The 31-year-old Kankakee woman is accused in the death of a four-year-old girl who was in her care in 2011. Testimony offered Thursday included...

Over 45 chamber members and guests attended the Business After Hours sponsored by State Representative Josh Harms Wednesday. The event was held at the Old Courthouse Museum in Watseka to help kick-off the 35th annual Harvest...

He's a veteran in the insurance industry, an educator, has an agriculture background, and perhaps, most important locally, he has conservative values. And with all that, Tom Bennett wants to State Representative, with a voice for...

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