Fire damaged a barn near Peotone Tuesday. Manhattan Fire Protection District Firefighters were called to the barn in the four-thousand block of Church Road about 4:30 yesterday afternoon. When they got there, firefighters say they found a tractor on fire inside a large horse barn near some 100 bales of hay. Firefighte...

A crash on Route 17 east of Kankakee Wednesday morning sent several people to the hospital. Illinois State Police say it was just before 7:30 yesterday morning when a semi truck rear-ended a Kia. Reports say the driver and four passengers in the care were taken to the hospital to be treated for injuries. No other detai...

A traffic stop Tuesday night netted Kankakee City Police a drug arrest. According to reports, City Police stopped the car on North Schuyler Avenue just before 7:30 Tuesday night for only having one headlight. A check found the driver of the car, identified as 65-year-old Eric L Samuels, was wanted on an outstanding war...

Kankakee City Police report another gun arrest. According to reports. it was just before midnight Tuesday night when officers stopped a car driven by 65-year-old Rodney H. Watkins near North Fifth and West Mulberry for a traffic violation. While talking to Watkins, officers asked for consent to search the car, Watkins ...

Kankakee City Police report an arrest after a man allegedly threatened another man with a samurai sword. According to reports, it was just before 2:30 yesterday morning when officers were called to a home in the 17-hundred block of East Maple by an anonymous caller who said there was a man in a gray truck with a pistol...