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Kankakee Fire Chief Damon Schuldt is expressing his thanks for a family of young people who donated stuffed animal toys and books for children needing ambulance care. The collection of toy-animals and reading materials will be...

An early-Saturday morning shooting in Bradley is under investigation.  Police reported shot fired just before 3:30 am in the 200-block of N. Madison Avenue.  Two adult males were shot in their legs.  The...

- The Town Marshal in Boswell, IN died Sunday morning in a traffic crash along State Road 352. Kevin McCombs served Boswell as its Town Marshal, a Reserve Deputy with the Benton County Sheriff’s Department, and with Benton County...

The Danville Veterans Administration facility is now offering the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to all veterans, regardless of age. A spokesperson said the facility began receiving vaccine shipments in mid-December and has now...

Vermilion County residents will now be able to receive a COVID-19 vaccine during March at the Fischer Theatre in downtown Danville. The Vermilion County Health Department reports enough vaccines have been delivered to the...

The Iroquois County Public Health Department (ICPHD), in partnership with Iroquois Memorial Hospital, will be hosting community-based COVID-19 vaccination clinics for qualifying Iroquois County residents. Another clinic scheduled...

35-year-old Elijah Manuel of Joliet was the driver of a vehicle that crashed in rural Dwight last Saturday morning. Police have not said why fled the scene of the Livingston County accident. But he was on parole from the Illinois...

Area public health departments have reported additional deaths from the coronavirus.  Two additional deaths in Iroquois, one in Ford and one more in Kankakee County were reported in the last day.  Iroquois County Public...

Despite fewer people on the roads, preliminary reports indicate 1,166 fatalities across the state.  That's an increase of 16-percent from the year prior. Cathy Chase, with Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety...

After a few much-needed days of good weather, storms are returning to parts of the nation starting today. There's a major winter storm out west that dumped between six inches to a foot of snow in Denver overnight. Ten western...