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KANKAKEE --  Illinois State Police arrested a Peotone man Tuesday after he committed a lewd act in the Kankakee State Park. Sixty-year-old Ronald C. Noble was jailed at the Jerome Combs Detention Center on a charge of...

The Kankakee County State’s Attorney’s Office reports a 61-year-old Herscher man is accused of sexually abusing two young relatives. Charles Baker was arrested March 16th and charged with a Class 1 felony of criminal...

WATSEKA --  In Iroquois Circuit Court Tuesday, two Kankakee men facing felony theft charges from the Iroquois Paving Corporation were allowed to bond out of jail while a Champaign man facing a DUI charge agreed to a 30-month...

31-year-old Luther Starkey appeared in Kankakee Circuit Court Tuesday where he entered a ‘not guilty’ plea to murder and attempted murder.  Starkey remains jailed in the Jerome Combs Detention Center on a one-million dollar...

Sunday afternoon’s shooting victim in Kankakee has died.  27-year-old Jerome Lucius was pronounced dead Monday afternoon at Riverside Medical Center.  WGFA News reported Tuesday that Lucius had died, but Kankakee County...

Accused sex offender Keith Truesdell has entered a “not guilty” plea to 36-counts of sexually abusing a young relative in Iroquois County over a period of about five years.  The 42-year-old Kankakee man has asked for a jury...

The Associated Press JOLIET, Ill. — Arson charges have been filed against a Will County firefighter and another man who are accused of setting fire to a pickup truck and filing an...

WATSEKA -- Iroquois County Sheriff Detective Eric Starkey and dance instructor Amber Gunther danced their way to a first-place finish Saturday evening in the annual Dancing for the Stars event in Watseka. Iroquois Sexual...

KANKAKEE -- Two people were shot, one dead, the other critically wounded in separate weekend shootings that continue to plague Kankakee. Following a Sunday afternoon shooting on N. Taylor Avenue in Kankakee that left a man shot...

Kankakee Police are searching for a lone gunman who left a man critically injured Sunday. The shooting, on North Taylor Avenue near the King Middle School, occurred around 4 pm.  The...