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A traffic stop led to a narcotics arrest by KAMEG agents. A Custer Park resident is jailed in Kankakee County. 29-year-old Jamee R. Bilthuis was arrested for the Unlawful Possession of a Controlled Substance with Intent...

COVID-19 testing will be available in Vermilion County next week.  Hoopeston Area High School isone of three sites hosting an event. FREE testing is available 9a - 4p Saturday, October 3. The Illinois Department of Public...

Early voting begins Thursday. That’s also the day local election authorities will begin sending out mail-in ballots to those who made such a request. The deadline to request a mail in ballot is October 29. Many authorities have...

Health officials are reporting much younger people are among the new cases in area counties. Meanwhile, COVID testing in Illinois is surpassing five-million. There's been 52,000 tests per day on average. And more counties are...

Kankakee police were investigating reports of shots fired Tuesday afternoon. The report referred to two shots fired in the same block -- East River Street. Officers found damage to a residence in the first call during the Noon...

                      Donors needed this fall to maintain blood supply amid ongoing pandemic Plasma from whole blood and...

There were no injuries reported in a residential fire on South 4th Avenue in Kankakee Monday night. A neighbor alerted emergency responders to the 800-block about 10:15 pm. Kankakee Fire Chief Damon Schuldt said crews found fire...

Officials in Carroll County say two adults and a pet dog were killed in a house fire Monday evening.  The blaze broke out around 9 pm on State Road 29 in Bringhurst, IN.  A woman, man and a do9g were pronounced dead at...

One person is dead following a five-vehicle crash in Fountain County, IN. It happened around 6 p.m. Monday evening on State Road 28.  Police said the crash started when a westbound driver in an SUV was waiting to turn left...

Two teenage brothers from Carmel, IN were among the three people killed in a plane crash near an Indiana airstrip at Kokomo Sunday. 17-year-old Liam Patrick Kelly and 15-year-old Reece David Kelly died in the crash. The pilot...