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 ...

Once again this spring, Illinois House Republicans filed legislation and called for ethics reform, and once again those calls were ignored. Now that call is being renewed, yet again, following the ...

Residents across the district gathered on Friday, July 17, to witness a remarkable piece of American railroad history as Union Pacific’s Big Boy No. 4014 traveled through Pontiac and made a scheduled ...

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 – The Paxton Park Board approved an ordinance authorizing a short-term borrowing of funds not to exceed $50,000 from Frederick Community Bank in a special meeting held Tuesday. According to the ...

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 ...

Growing up in the time and place I did was a blessing in itself. I had a whole landscape on the farm on which to play, work, imagine, build and, above all else, learn to drive and study all kinds of ...

PAXTON – Paxton resident Ross Radke filed a second amendment to his civil lawsuit against the Paxton Park District in the United States District Court for the Central District on July 20. Radke ...

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PAXTON — The Paxton Park District’s Board of Commissioners called a special meeting for 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 21, at the Paxton Civic Center, 601 S. Fall St., to approve an ordinance authorizing the ...

A former Decatur man was sentenced to 42 years in prison after pleading guilty to three counts of indecent solicitation of a child in Ford County Circuit Court on Monday, July 6. The sentence of three ...

PONTIAC — As expected, retired Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School teacher Paul L. Meuser was sentenced to 30 months of sex offender probation Monday following his guilty plea in May to felony charges of ...