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Former Illinois Governor George Ryan is looking for a publisher --  to get his tell-all book on the market. The former governor, former secretary of state, former legislator, pharmacist and most-recently, former...

Federal Grants, Low-Interest Loans Will Help Families and Businesses Recover from Historic Floods SPRINGFIELD – Governor Pat Quinn today announced 14 more counties were approved for federal disaster aid to help people and...

A two-hour closed meeting of the Ford-Iroquois Public Health Board is now questioned as a possible illegal meeting.  And—action taken by the Board could be challenged. Administrator Doug Corbett was stripped of any duties...

Danville police are looking for answers regarding two separate shootings overnight that left a 21-year-old female dead and sent three other people to the hospital. Both shootings occurred within four hours and a few blocks of...

Bill Would Ban Sale of High-Capacity Ammunition Magazines SPRINGFIELD - Governor Pat Quinn today released the following statement regarding the passage of Senate Bill 1002 out of the Illinois Senate Executive Committee. Governor...

SPRINGFIELD- State Senator Jason Barickman (R-Bloomington) joined fellow Senators Monday calling for a confirmation hearing on Dr. David Gill’s nomination to become the Assistant Director of the Illinois Department of Public...

Missing Juvenile: Dominique Ferguson, 14 year old black female, 5'05", 150 pounds. Missing from Kankakee and may be in the company of her mother, Lakesha Howard, somewhere in Chicago near Ohio and Hamlin. Dominique came to...

The Ford-Iroquois Public Health Department is asking for assistance from the public in the collection of dead birds found in Ford and Iroquois counties. "Since West Nile virus arrived in Illinois at the end of the summer of 2001...

Missing Person Endangered: Altovise A. Drew is a 32 year old black female (photo attached) who is 5’07”, 120 pounds, black hair and brown eyes. Ms. Drew has epileptic seizures, is considered mentally disabled and is slightly...

     Kankakee's relay team also top in State CHARLESTON — Central High School’s Rayanne Wright will remember her 2013 trip to O’Brien Field in Charleston, IL. The Standout Central Comet senior...