Category Archives: MMP News Headlines

It's black Friday, that means tomorrow is shop small Saturday. Meegan Massey, Marketing coordinator for the Kankakee County Convention and Visitors Bureau has an event you might not have heard about.

Kankakee City Police report a couple of instances of shots fired in the city early Tuesday morning. According to reports, officers were called to the 300 block of North Harrison Avenue just before 12:...

The holiday travel season is underway and Kankakee County Sheriff Mike Downey has a few reminders for you Triple A says some 53-million people will be traveling this week. The heaviest travel times ar...

There's no comment yet today from city police on social media reports of shots being fired in Kankakee last night. We're told the city's ShotSpotter system detected an estimated 4 shots in the 300 blo...

A Portage, Indiana woman has been sentenced to 4 months in prison and four months of home detention and two years of probation after pleading guilty to wire fraud. 43 year old Jessica Guska took the f...

Railroad crossing safety in Kankakee County will be improved over the next 18 months. The Illinois Commerce commission says four crossings will be getting new automatic flashing light signals and gate...

Bond's been set at two-million dollars for the man accused of shooting another man to death at a bar in Bradley last week. Bradley Police allege 39-year-old Anthony G. Kendrick fired the shot last Wed...

Kankakee City Police report a shooting at a local bar early Saturday morning sent three people to the hospital. According to a press release, officers were called to the bar at 698 North Schuyler Aven...

Just after one Saturday morning a Manteno man reported he'd been shot while sitting in his car in the parking lot of a bar in the 22-hundred block of West Station Street. Further investigation by medi...

A man convicted in a Kankakee County Courtroom for the 2014 murder of Sarah Washington has had his murder conviction upheld on appeal. Rex Frank was found guilty of Washington's murder by a jury in Ma...