Here are some sights from Monday's game, which GCMS won 63-34 ...

PAXTON — More than 200 people gathered at the Pueblo Lindo Mexican restaurant in Paxton on Saturday, Jan. 24, for a chance to meet and hear from a number of Republican candidates in the March 17 ...

PAXTON — Fred Magers has resigned as multi-township assessor for Button and Patton townships, and Del Bruens has been appointed to replace him. Magers defeated Bruens in last spring’s election in his ...

As communities across the country on Monday hosted parades, panels and service projects for the 40th federal observation of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the political climate for some is more fraught ...

SPRINGFIELD — Krista Phillips of Effingham County was selected from a field of 75 contestants Sunday as the 68th Miss Illinois County Fair Queen. Phillips will reign over the 2026 Illinois State Fair ...

One of the constant realities of the human condition is that we live in a fallen world. And in a fallen world there will always be troubles. We all experience them. Sometimes those troubles are very ...

GIBSON CITY – The Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley varsity girls basketball team lost 58-51 in its final game of the 2026 Heart of Illinois Conference Tournament on Thursday. Lily Sizemore had 32 points for ...

PAXTON — A Texas man has been sentenced to four years in the Illinois Department of Corrections after pleading guilty in Ford County to unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon. On Monday, Jan. 12 ...

Earl Frederick Rinkenberger, 89, of Buckley, Illinois, passed away peacefully on January 18, 2026, in Paxton, Illinois. He was born on New Year’s Day in 1937 to Frederick and Lucille (Tragnitz) ...

PAXTON — The attorney for five current and former Paxton Buckley-Loda students, who claim in lawsuits filed last summer that they were inappropriately touched by suspended teacher and former coach Rob ...

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School graduate Kade Hill, a former agriculture teacher and Illinois FFA president who works in agribusiness in Livingston County, placed third nationally in ...

PAXTON — Marilyn Joyce Fields, 90, of Paxton, died at 11:07 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026, at Accolade Healthcare of Paxton Senior Living. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 22, at ...