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 ...

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,” ...

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 — 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PAXTON – The Paxton Park Board approved the hiring of Rantoul resident Gillian Littleton as the Paxton Park District’s recreation director during Tuesday’s meeting. Littleton will start working at her ...

PAXTON — Mary Ellen Allen, 77, of Paxton, died Wednesday, June 3, 2026, surrounded by her family. A memorial service will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, June 10, at Baier Family Funeral Services in Paxton ...

Arcelia R. Watson, 97, of Rankin, passed away on Friday, June 5, 2026, at Heritage Health: Therapy & Senior Care in Hoopeston. Arcelia was born on September 5, 1928, in Fountain Creek Township, the ...

MYERSVILLE, Md. — A charter bus carrying Paxton Buckley-Loda Junior High School eighth-graders on their return home from a trip to Washington, D.C., was rear-ended by another bus on Saturday morning ...

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 ...