A popular program serving a three-county area was shut down amidst an investigation. Iroquois, Ford and Vermilion counties benefit from the programs offered thry Head Start. The program is manged by the East central...
An I-57 crash in Champaign County Tuesday night killed 62-year-old John Wilson of Oakwood. The death is under investigation, according to Coroner Duane Northrup. Wilson was pronounce dead at the scene just before...
The Kankakee County Coroner’s Office has identified two people whose bodies were recovered from the Kankakee River. Both were presumed drowning victims after a family-outing went bad Sunday. Tuesday morning, searchers found the...
The Grundy County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest of 49-year-old Ramiro Rodriguez of Bolingbrook for driving while license revoked after a traffic stop on August 3rd. Nearly two weeks later, Rodriguez was indicted by a...
A Hoopeston meth dealer was sentenced to 42-months in prison following a plea agreement in Livingston County Court. 29-year-old Coty Morgeson was given credit for 104 days in the county jail. He’ll also serve another two years...
A driver escaped injury, but an occupant inside a house was injured when a vehicle ran into a house in Kankakee Monday afternoon. It happened about 4 pm at Webster Circle. No word on why the driver lost control. The car ended up...
Kankakee Fire reports a Sunday morning house fire appears to have accidental. Chief Damon Schuldt said no one was injured. The cause was under investigation. The fire broke out a little before 7 am in the 600-block of Country...
An 11-year-old girl drowned after being swept away Sunday on Wildcat Creek in Indiana. The un-identified girl was swimming with her 13-year-old brother when the current took them. The boy was able to get himself out...
It appears to have been a double-drowning over the weekend on the Kankakee River. Two people are missing while two others were rescued (Sunday) near the mouth of the Indian Caves and the river. Emergency personnel were dispatched...
