Author Archives: Nancy Caddigan

Bond has been set at 7 million dollars for a Kankakee man charged with shooting two people to death in Watseka last week. In Iroquois County Court Friday, 44 year old Scott E. Peterson was charged wit...

A Rankin man was arrested in Benton County, Indiana Saturday while police were searching for a vehicle reported stolen out of Cissna Park on Friday. It started when Benton County Sheriff's police Disp...

Sources are telling that a woman was killed and a child had to be airlifted to a hospital for treatment after gunfire erupted this afternoon in Watseka. Watseka police only confirming that multiple pe...

A Bradley man has been arrested on charges of Criminal Sexual Abuse. Bradley police say the abuse occurred on July 1st in the 600 block of Hemlock Lane. They were notified a few days later and followi...

The Founder of Municipal Bank in Bourbonnais has died. Merlin Karlock passed away yesterday. Karlock was an entrepreneur who, according to the Daily Journal, made his first million dollars by the age ...

It's a special day for Dairy Queen. Joe Rintleman is Vice President for the local Noble Store Dairy Queens and he says that while the first official DQ was in Joliet, Kankakee is the official home of ...

The Kankakee County Fair continues today at the fairgrounds just south of Kankakee. Jennifer Bauer is the officer manager for the fair and she has a rundown of today's events The fair runs through Sun...

It's another busy weekend in Kankakee county. With a look at what's going on , here's Meegan Massey, marketing Coordinator for Visit Kankakee county

It's opening day for the Lake County Fair in Lake County Indiana. With a look at today's activities, here's publicity director, Arlene Marcinek The Lake County Fair runs through the 13th at the Fairgr...

Time's running out if you want your shot at over a billion dollars. The Multi-State "Mega Millions" lottery drawing is tonight with the jackpot standing at one-and-a-quarter-billion dollars. The cash ...