PAXTON — The relaunch of Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School’s wrestling program might not happen as expected this school year, if at all. Parent Whittany Tipsord’s questions about the status of the ...

PAXTON — The Paxton City Council approved zoning variances this week to allow for two raised signs, one 80 and the other 25 feet high, advertising the Union 76 fuel station and attached fast-food ...

James “Bardell” Shelton, 82, of Melvin passed away at 7:10 pm Tuesday October 6, 2026, at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana. Cremation rites have been accorded per his request and no formal service ...

PAXTON — Members of the Governor Thomas Ford Chapter of the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) held a brief ceremony Monday afternoon to dedicate a tree on the Ford ...

LAKE IROQUOIS — A Lake Iroquois man who berated a neighbor in a social media post Friday night was confronted and allegedly assaulted early the next morning at his home, resulting in his ...

PAXTON — The discovery process is well under way in preparation for trial, attorneys told a judge Friday, in a lawsuit alleging inappropriate touching of female students by suspended ...

LAKE IROQUOIS — A Lake Iroquois man who berated a neighbor in a social media post Friday night was confronted and allegedly assaulted early the next morning at his home, resulting in his ...

Josephine “Josie” Kleist, who was named Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley High School’s student of the month for October, poses with her math teacher, Heather Killian, left, who nominated Kleist for the award ...

There’s a lot of talk about the U.S. Constitution and what it allows and doesn’t allow as well as the need to “get back” to what our forefathers put forth. While the document itself is not complicated ...

RANTOUL – The Rantoul/Paxton-Buckley-Loda soccer team won 2-1 over St. Thomas More on Tuesday. The win moved the Eagles’ Illini Prairie Conference record to 4-0-2, thereby giving Rantoul/PBL a share ...

SENECA – Cache Richard, a Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley seventh grader, earned a trip to the IESA Class 2A state cross country meet. Richard earned the spot with a 20th-place finish at the Seneca ...

I went to a dear friend’s 70th birthday party recently. I plan on joining him in that bracket next March. But I had to wonder as I headed home from the party at an hour when I used to start getting ...