A Livingston County grand jury has indicted a former foster mother on two counts of murder in the 2011 death of a 4-year-old girl who was in her care.
29-year-old Heather Lamie was arrested at her Kankakee County home late Friday...
The Illinois Farm Bureau is expressing its disappointment in the failure of the U.S. House to pass a farm bill.
The House rejected a five year, half-trillion-dollar farm bill that would have cut $2 billion annually from food...
A defense expert will render ballistics testing on a bullet fragment in the Andrew Condon murder case in Iroquois County. That test may lead to a trial date for Condon, who's jailed and charged with murder for last year's...
MELVIN — This year's Ford County Fair, running June 23-29 at the fairgrounds in Melvin, may look different than in the past. The fair has added numerous new events to its schedule, while keeping some old favorites, as well.
"We...
SPRINGFIELD- State Senator Jason Barickman (R-Bloomington) criticized Democrat leaders in Springfield following a special session Wednesday for continuing to delay action on meaningful public pension reform.
Members of the House...
HOOPESTON — Illinois Environmental Protection Agency Director Lisa Bonnett asked the Illinois attorney general's office on Wednesday to seek an immediate court order halting operations at J&R Used Tire Service, 103 E. Maple...
The Ford County Board is in no hurry to act on the removal of Doug Corbett as director of the Ford-Iroquois Public Health Department.
A contract states Corbett is under contract and can only be removed if a disability prevents...
HOOPESTON —Teams of firefighters from Vermilion and Iroquois counties, and still more from Indiana continued to battle a blaze which broke out in a huge tire recycling facility early Wednesday morning.
Some officials fear the...
Firefighters in Central Illinois battled a blaze at a tire-recycling facility that officials fear could go on for days.
Firefighters were called to J&R Used Tire Service in Hoopeston early Wednesday. There they found part of...
