Author Archives: Nancy Caddigan

He won this year's regional spelling bee, but Quinn Meadows will not be moving on to the finals of 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington D.C. Because of the pandemic initial qualifying spel...

11 people were arrested over the weekend ranging in age from 43 to 14 when a fight broke out in Hoopeston. It happened in the 700 block of E. Honeywell Ave. Taken into custody on disorderly conduct ch...

The Bourbonnais Police Department is warning of a texting scam going around the area. The sender claims to be with the Illinois Department of Transportation or IDOT and is offering something called a ...

There's a new judge in the 21st Judicial Circuit. Chief Judge Michael Kramer announced Friday afternoon that Brenda Claudio has been voted to fill the vacant associate judge position. Claudio has been...

Kankakee City Police report a traffic stop in the city last night netted a drug arrest. Officers say they stopped a car driven by 34-year-old Bobbie Jo Prindle in the 300 block of South Nelson for a t...

Kankakee City Police report incidents of shots fired in the city over the weekend. Early Saturday morning, officers were called to the 500 block of North Cottage Avenue for a report of shots fired in ...

The Iroquois County Health Department has announced a series of COVID-19 vaccination clinics this week. The first is Tuesday from nine in the morning until 3:30 in the afternoon at the health departme...