Category Archives: MMP News Headlines

Kankakee City Council unanimously appointed Christopher Salazar as the New Kankakee Fire Department Deputy Chief at Monday night's board meeting. Fire Chief Bryan LaRoche says Salazar's love for firef...

There was an earthquake reported overnight in downstate Illinois. Reports say the three-point-five magnitude earthquake struck about 1:30 this morning and was centered south of Decatur near the Villag...

Judge Fran Gull, who presided over the double murder trial of Richard Allen in the deaths of two teenage girls in Delphi, is retiring at the end of her term. Gull has been a fixture at the Allen Count...

A Tippecanoe County Indiana judge and his wife are hospitalized in stable condition after they were shot Sunday afternoon. Steve and Kim Meyer were found with gunshot wounds in a home in the 17-hundre...

The Illinois House of Representatives are back in session today for the first time this year. 79th District state representative Jackie Haas tells us she has several bills from last year she would lik...

Beecher Fire Department personnel fought a garage fire over the weekend. A press release says firefighters were called to the fire in the 500 block of Oak Park Avenue just after 6:30 Saturday night. W...

There is a cold weather advisory in effect for us until noon today. The National Weather service says very cold wind chills running between 20 and 25 below zero are possible. Those wind chills could c...

It's Martin Luther King Junior Day today. The day set aside to honor the slain civil rights leader. Because of the holiday, all federal, state and local municipal offices are closed today. Schools are...

Some type of industrial soap is believed to have been the cause behind the closure of Kennedy Drive in Kankakee near Court Street Friday. According to Kankakee Mayor Chris Curtis, the industrial soap ...

The City of Kankakee Fire Department has announced a new Deputy Chief. According to a press release from Friday, Mayor Chris Curtis and Fire Chief Bryan LaRoche have appointed Captain Christopher A. S...