Category Archives: MMP News Headlines

November's unemployment rate in Kankakee held steady at 5.2 percent. Slightly lower than the 5.3 percent of November 2023 and down from the 5.4 percent jobless number for October. The Illinois Departm...

As cases of H5N1 or Avian Influenza continue to climb across the state, Manteno Police and Kankakee County Animal Control report several dead geese have been found in the area and that there appears t...

A Go Fund Me Page has been set up to assist the family of an Illinois State Trooper who was struck and killed on I-55 while clearing debris from the roadway in Channahon Monday night. 35 year old Troo...

Police are investigating after two women were shot to death in Park Forest. Authorities say the victims were discovered last night inside a residence in the 300 block of Miami Street. The women are id...

A Coal City woman has pleaded guilty to stabbing a man in the lower back with a kitchen knife during an argument between the two back in June. 46 year old Amy Sullivan pleaded guilty to a reduced char...

Bradley police were called to a home in the 1500 block of Amhurst Way early Christmas morning about a domestic situation that had apparently been brewing for weeks and turned violent about 2:30 yester...

The Ford County Public Health Department has a new administrator. According to the Ford County Chronicle, 63 year old Glenn Miller of Paxton has been hired to run the department. The agency has had th...

The Annual Free Christmas Day Dinner Incorporated event was a rousing success again this year. The dinners are held at multiple locations around the county for anyone who may otherwise have been alone...

The Kankakee County Coroner's office reports one person has died in an accident this morning near Grant Park. Kankakee County Sheriff's deputies put the location at Route 17 and North Bull Creek Road ...

The Fairbury and Pontiac Police Chaos Task Force have arrested an East Peoria man on charges of traveling to meet a minor and indecent solicitation of a child. According to police, on December 19th, 4...