The Jasper/Newton and LaPorte County branches of ABATE Indiana are making arrangements for hundreds of bikers to ride from the LaPorte County Fairgrounds to Rensselaer’s Brookside Park on Memorial Day weekend this year.
The...
There will be silence and reflection at Northern Illinois University this week. Tomorrow marks the ten-year anniversary of the campus shooting that left five people dead and injured 17 others back in 2008. NIU says in the decade...
The National Council for Home Safety and Security announces their Safest College Campuses in America for 2018. The top five are:
1. Brigham Young University-Idaho (Rexburg, Idaho)
2. Oakland University (Rochester, Michigan)
3...
February is American Heart Month. However, area hospitals insist a heart can be kept healthy year around.
Tonya Johnson-Wilcox, EMS Director at OSF Saint James-John W. Albrecht Medical Center in Pontiac, has some tips to keep...
Watseka Police were busy this past week citing motorists for parking in snow zones.
Police report up to a dozen vehicles were ticketed for leaving vehicles parked in a snow zone, prohibiting snow plows from clearing roads in a...
Watseka Mayor John Allhands will look for new direction after a special city council meeting didn’t materialize (Saturday). The mayor said ‘we’ll have to see how the council wants to move forward.’
A special meeting was...
The Watseka Unit Nine school district will soon be involved in a search for a new superintendent. The board this week approved a change in administration, at the request of Superintendent James Bunting.
Bunting will return to a...
Residents of Will County and north are bracing for what could be one of the biggest snowstorm in the past three years. The Friday morning commute already has reports of 10 inches and more. I-DOT truck have been out overnight...
An Iroquois County woman and a Hoopeston man were killed in a two-vehicle collision Wednesday in Vermilion County.
Coroner’s offices in Champaign and Vermilion counties have released the names of the two victims who died in the...
The Eastern Illinois Foodbank is partnering with the John Cadle Foundation in hosting a free food give-away Saturday in Hoopeston. The food distribution is at the Civic Center at McFerren Park. It begins at 10 am.
All Vermilion...
