PAXTON — In a lawsuit filed this week, the mother of a former Clara Peterson Elementary School first-grader claims that her daughter was inappropriately touched for months by teacher Rob Pacey during ...

RANKIN — Arcelia Watson was raised on a rural Rankin farm where her family lived a hard-scrabble, almost hand-to-mouth existence. Watson refused to let poverty in her early life define her existence.

PAXTON – Gillian Littleton started her first week as the Paxton Park District’s recreation director on Wednesday. Only one day in, the Paris native says she feels “like I’m home.” “I feel blessed,” ...

URBANA — Onetime Roberts resident Paul E. Theesfield, who was sentenced in 2022 to 12 years in federal prison for striking a woman with his vehicle in Gibson City as part of a bizarre plot to kidnap ...

DWIGHT – Regardless of the outcome of Saturday’s IHSA Class 1A Dwight Sectional championship game, the Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley varsity baseball team surpassed expectations this postseason. After ...

Geronimo Power has established an office in the Marshall Building in downtown Paxton for its proposed Sprouting Skies Wind Farm in Ford and Iroquois counties. The 500-megawatt project would comprise ...

PAXTON — Paxton aldermen spent an hour and a half reviewing an initial draft of a proposed backyard chickens ordinance on Tuesday, June 2, making edits suggested by both City Attorney Tony Schuering ...

Thus far in this series on Psalm 85, we’ve seen God doing a work of revival in answer to the Psalmist’s prayer for God to “….revive us again…..” (85:6). We saw that the Psalmist remembers God’s past ...

PAXTON – The Paxton Mustangs age 13-and-under baseball team won 9-6 over Argenta-Oreana in Game 2 of a doubleheader on Saturday. Eli Dodd hit 2-for-2 with an RBI and two runs scored while Luke Niewold ...

Last year’s Iroquois County Fair queen, Rae Stucki of Donovan, and last year’s Little Miss Iroquois County Fair queen, Tinley Rust of Loda, pose with the 15 youngsters from Iroquois County who will be ...

PAXTON — A Paxton based residential garbage hauler and commercial waste collection company has been sold to a Florida-based company. GFL Environmental, based in Miami Beach, has purchased Central ...

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — A Minnesota based company plans to build a 500-megawatt wind farm spanning about 200,000 acres in Ford and Iroquois counties. As Ford County Board Chairman Chase McCall of Gibson ...