Category Archives: MMP News Headlines

Following an investigation it's been determined that cigarette smoking is to blame for a home fire on September 9th in Paxton that consumed a house in the 500 block of West Holmes Street. Paxton fire ...

Retired Kankakee FireFighter James Stokes Jr. has been honored with a street named after him. At this week's Kankakee City council meeting aldermen voted to give the 800 block of North Washington Stre...

The City of Kankakee wants you to know that Brookmont Boulevard from Schuyler Avenue to Washington will be closed again today from seven this morning until three this afternoon. That so work can be do...

Nearly one-point-five-million borrowers are eligible for student loan forgiveness in Illinois. President Biden's administration announced the forgiveness plan last month, offering up to ten-thousand d...

The Illinois State Police in Ashkum have announced they'll conduct Occupant Restraint Enforcement or OREP patrols in Kankakee, Ford and Iroquois Counties tonight. Troopers say the special patrols allo...

Manteno Police report the arrest of a 50-year-old Kankakee man on sex-related charges. According to reports, officers were called Saturday by a woman who told them someone had touched her in a sexual ...

The Illinois Department of Employment Security says jobs were up and unemployment was down from a year ago in all 14 of the state's metro areas. In Kankakee County the jobless rate came in at 5 .9 per...

The mother of a Crete Monee High School student is suing the school district and the school's truancy officer claiming the officer slammed her son to the ground twice without provocation. The mother a...

Jasper County Sheriff's police were called to a Rensselaer home Monday after receiving a call from the owner who was out of town and had been told by a third party that someone was in the home. When p...

Manteno Police report the arrest of a 50-year-old Kankakee man on sex-related charges. According to reports, officers were called Saturday by a woman who told them someone had touched her in a sexual ...