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Citizens with any information about a reported home invasion in Kankakee are asked to contact investigators. Kankakee City police officers responded to a 500-block of S. Gordon Avenue just before 4 am last Friday concerning a...

Today's Illinois Crop Progress and Planting Report released from the Illinois Agricultural Statistics Services indicates that 78% of corn acreage is now planted in Illinois, a testament to the larger machinery, enhanced...

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The Morocco Road, from Newton County, Indiana to Beaverville (in Iroquois County) was closed last night due to flash flooding. Several roads in the northern sections of Iroquois County experienced flash flooding. And then threat...

Iroquois County Treasurer, Mindy Kuntz Hagan, has announced that the 2013 payable in 2014 real estate tax statements have been mailed to the taxpayers of Iroquois County. The deadline to pay the first installment without penalty...

The parents of Pontiac police officer Casey Kohlmeier, who was killed last year in the line of duty, have filed a wrongful-death lawsuit. Named as defendants in the suit are the driver accused of hitting the officer,that...

Defense attorney Ed Glazar Jr. says he hasn't been paid for his services, so he's asking the court to allow him to withdraw from representing Iroquois County murder suspect Andrew Condon. Glazar's motion will be heard May 22nd...

You can help reduce hunger in your community this Saturday. The National Association of Letter Carriers will hold its annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive. You're asked to leave non-perishable food in a sturdy bag by your mailbox...

Volunteer Joann Howard was named the Lifetime Achievement award winner Wednesday evening in Watseka. And Watseka Park District Director Sherry Johnson earned the Citizen-of-the-Year award. The winners were named by the...

GILMAN — U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has announced the selection of Halley Cummings of Danforth, who attends Iroquois West High School in Gilman, as a 2014 U.S. Presidential Scholar. Cummings is the daughter of...