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 — 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 ...

Rodney Wayne Larkin, 37, of Thomasboro passed away Saturday, July 25, 2026 at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri. Funeral services will be 11:00 a.m. Saturday, August 1, 2026 at the Paxton ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 — 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 ...

The number of measles cases in the U.S. has surpassed the record breaking tally for all of 2025, with five more months of 2026 still to come. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention logged ...

Paxton Masonic Lodge 416 member Jay Eshleman of Loda, left, receives his Masonic apron from the lodge’s worshipful master, Adam Kyrouac. On Saturday, June 13, Eshleman received his master Mason third ...