PAXTON — Moments before she was sentenced to 90 days in the Ford County Jail and 30 months of probation, former Paxton pharmacist Jenna Vogel apologized for having stockpiled thousands of prescription ...

PAXTON — Paxton resident Ross Radke filed an amended lawsuit against the Paxton Park District on Monday, July 20, in U.S. District Court in Urbana. Radke alleges in the lawsuit that the park district ...

PAXTON — The Paxton Police Department released the following list of recent activity: Dustin M. Adams, 28, of Panama, Ill., was arrested for solicitation to meet a minor, indecent solicitation of a ...

Jim Brandt captured his second Men’s Club Championship at Lakeview Country Club last weekend, carding rounds of 69 and 70 to finish under par both days. Kyle Pool finished as runner-up, with Eric ...

PAXTON — A set of proposed ordinance changes to allow Paxton residents to keep backyard chickens is headed to the city’s planning and zoning commission. The city council voted unanimously during its ...

We began this series last time from Psalm 88 that touches on despair, despondency, and depression. I briefly referenced the life of 19 th century pastor and author, Charles Spurgeon and his struggle ...

KEMPTON — The Tri- Point school board approved the hiring of Jose Amador as a part-time substitute teacher, Jan Weston as an assistant junior high softball coach and Kaitlin Durbin as head junior high ...

PAXTON – No lead was safe. The Paxton Swedes and Buckley Dutchmasters each overcame a multiple-run deficit to earn a victory in Sunday’s Eastern Illinois Baseball League doubleheader. The Swedes ...

PAXTON — Calls from the community to keep Brock Niebuhr as Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School’s head baseball coach grew a little louder during the PBL school board’s monthly meeting on Wednesday, July ...

PAXTON — Unchallenged in their respective election bids in the March 17 Republican primary were incumbent Ford County Sheriff Chad Johnson, soon-to-be new Ford County Treasurer Taylor Burnett and all ...

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) — Two teenagers were charged with murder on Tuesday, July 14, in the killings of five members of an Illinois family who were shot at three different locations. A 16-year-old ...

If you were to ask Americans to name the greatest speech in our nation’s history, many would probably choose Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. As a devoted admirer of Lincoln, I would be hard ...