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HOOPESTON — Illinois Environmental Protection Agency Director Lisa Bonnett asked the Illinois attorney general's office on Wednesday to seek an immediate court order halting operations at J&R Used Tire Service, 103 E. Maple...

The Ford County Board is in no hurry to act on the removal of Doug Corbett as director of the Ford-Iroquois Public Health Department. A contract states Corbett is under contract and can only be removed if a disability prevents...

HOOPESTON —Teams of firefighters from Vermilion and Iroquois counties, and still more from Indiana continued to battle a blaze which broke out in a huge tire recycling facility early Wednesday morning. Some officials fear the...

Firefighters in Central Illinois battled a blaze at a tire-recycling facility that officials fear could go on for days. Firefighters were called to J&R Used Tire Service in Hoopeston early Wednesday. There they found part of...

Firefighters from at least a half-dozen departments are on the scene of a major blaze in Hoopeston this morning (Wed., June 19th). The fire is located at J & R Used Tire Service, located at Illinois route 9 and Market Streets...

Damage estimates were being compiled today (Wed) following an overnight fire in Limestone Township. No injury was reported. A house and garage sustained damage on Limestone School Road. An attached garage was totaled and there's...

PEOTONE — The Illinois Department of Transportation Tuesday unveiled a slightly revised Illiana Expressway plan and formally proposed that it be a tollway.  IDOT made a few changes to the 47-mile route that will stretch from...

Hoopeston firefighters were called to J & R Used Tires in Hoopeston this morning. Mutual aid was called in from several neighboring departments. The fire broke out at the business on Route 9 at Market Street. No word on the...

Seat belt stop leads to Unlawful Possession of Alcohol by a Minor and Unlawful Possession of Firearm Ammunition charges against two Watseka teens. Illinois State Police District 21 is reporting the arrest of 18-year-old Keanon C...

                       *  Daily-Journal reports huge sales-tax win for City of Kankakee  * An Illinois...