PAXTON — To some, the roadside ice cream shop at 349 N. Railroad Ave. in Paxton will always be known as Dairy Queen, just as it had been since 1954. The name change that happened there Saturday, Aug.

KANKAKEE — Former Iroquois County Public Health Department administrator Dee Ann Schippert’s jury trial is no longer set for October. Charged in March 2024 with 33 felonies — including eight counts of ...

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 ...

Not that you care; it’s just necessary to note for this story: I wear a mask over my eyes when I sleep. I tend to work at night, so I sleep during daylight hours; thus the sleep mask. Not that there’s ...

PAXTON — The supplier of official Pokémon merchandise for Game Changer Sports Shop in Paxton is suing a wholesale distributor, claiming a breach of contract. A four-count lawsuit was filed in Ford ...

GIBSON CITY — The Gibson City Council held a special meeting on Monday, July 20, to review the city’s proposed 2026-27 fiscal year budget, and after some adjustments, members unanimously approved 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 ...

BUCKLEY — Heather’s Kitchen at 310 S. Railroad Ave. in Buckley offers lunches through the Peace Meal program starting at 10 a.m. each weekday. Here are the menus for this week, with all meals ...

PAXTON — The Missouri-based Coalition Opposing Governmental Secrecy and an affiliated watchdog group based in that same state are suing four public school districts and two villages in Ford County ...

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 ...

I grew up in an area once noted for growing cannery tomatoes, so I know what a good tomato tastes like and have memories of such. However, I could not grow tomatoes successfully at our current ...

CRESCENT CITY — The arrest of a Chicago man during a traffic stop in Iroquois County last week led to the execution of a search warrant at a rural Crescent City property and the seizure of more than 1 ...