PAXTON — A Champaign man charged in Ford County Circuit Court with armed robbery with a firearm for his alleged role in a March 2025 holdup at Paxton’s Fulton Park is due back in court next month for ...

PAXTON — Just over half of Ford County’s 9,519 registered voters cast a ballot in the Nov. 3 general election. Unofficial results posted on the Ford County Clerk & Recorder’s Office’s new election ...

PAXTON — Members of the Ford County Public Building Commission took a tour of a former nursing home on the outskirts of Paxton on Wednesday, Nov. 4, to see if the long-shuttered facility might be ...

BUCKLEY — St. John’s Lutheran School in Buckley has released its “A” and “B” honor rolls for the first quarter of the 2026-27 school year: ‘A’ honor roll — Fifth-graders Jude Bailey, Scarlett Heisner ...

The Paxton Kirby Foods is hosting cookouts in its parking lot from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. each Saturday through the end of November to help raise funds for nonprofit groups. Each cookout benefits a ...

My grandparents had a metalworking, repair and fabrication shop on 9th Street behind Ace Hardware in Gibson City. My dad worked there many years, and it was often the gathering center for a variety of ...

• Anthony W. Graves, 29, of Piper City, for aggravated criminal sexual abuse (victim under 18). • Jennifer M. Stone, 52, of Paxton, for driving on a suspended driver’s license, improper use of a turn ...

PAXTON — The Ford County Public Building Commission approved the language for its next lease agreement with the Ford County Board for the courthouse and nearby sheriff’s office and jail on Thursday, ...

PAXTON — La Hacienda Cantina, a Mexican restaurant in downtown Paxton, announced its closure in a post on social media on Wednesday, Nov. 4. “With very heavy hearts, we want to announce that we will ...

In the larger Christian culture today, there are untold numbers of books that have been written about church growth. One way that’s often put forth is that churches should have wildly entertaining ...

CARBONDALE — Southern Illinois journalists are tired of talking about our media landscape problems. The latest State of Local News report was released in October with a headline calling southern ...

FOOSLAND — Charles Nelson, 23, of Batavia, was pronounced dead at 7:30 p.m. at the scene of a crash on Illinois 47 near Foosland in Champaign County that happened around 6:15 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30, ...