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...
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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...
RANKIN — The Rankin Village Board has moved to regulate the location of wind turbines within a mile and a-half of the village’s corporate limits. Such action has become common practice of smaller communities in the path of...
CHAMPAIGN — The chief of staff for U.S. Rep. Tim Johnson says he would like to replace the retiring congressman.
Johnson said last week that he plans to stop campaigning for re-election and...
An autopsy was scheduled Saturday on the body of 33-year-old Brandie Robinson which was found near the Kankakee River under the South Schuyler Avenue bridge. Kankakee Police report the discovery was...
