Author Archives: Nancy Caddigan

Gibson City Elementary School was dismissed early Monday when a water main ruptured near the school. It was about 11:30 yesterday morning when what's termed by the school district as a major water mai...

A hazardous materials spill closed Route 50 in Kankakee for nearly a day over the weekend. The spill happened Friday evening as a semi tanker left a plant on Fair Street. The tanker had an unsecured h...

Another year has come and gone for the families of Abby Williams and Libby German. The two were murdered five years ago, yesterday. The Indiana State Police and the FBI say their investigation is on-g...

38th District State Senator Sue Rezin has introduced legislation that would expand the state's Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP. Rezin says the legislation would ensure more famili...

A woman who was sitting in her vehicle in the 400 block of South Euclid just after midnight tells police that as she was gathering her belongings before going inside her home when a man opened a back ...

A Kankakee man was arrested Tuesday by Grundy County Sheriff's deputies at a gas station in Gardner. Police say 33 year old Leo Murdo was in possession of a stolen vehicle. Murdo is being held on 25,0...

A Paxton man was sentenced to 10 years in prison today in Federal Court in Urbana, after being found guilty last October to a charge of attempted enticement of a minor while on the social media dating...

Bourbonnais fire fighters were called to a garage fire Monday at 15 Dennison Drive. Bourbonnais fire saying damage was minimal and contained to the attached garage. The cause of the fire is still unde...

Peotone police report a shots fired incident today. Peotone police tell us a woman was entering a home in the 400 block of Louise just afternoon noon when a man came up to her, grabbed her purse and t...

Kankakee County has been approved for just over a million dollars as part of Statewide Transit Rebuild Illinois round two funding. The County will receive $360,000 to replace paratransit vehicles to a...