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 ...

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 ...

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 – 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 ...

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PAXTON — A Paxton based residential garbage hauler and commercial waste collection company has been sold to a Florida-based company. GFL Environmental, based in Miami Beach, has purchased Central ...

Thus far in this series on Psalm 85, we’ve seen God doing a work of revival in answer to the Psalmist’s prayer for God to “….revive us again…..” (85:6). We saw that the Psalmist remembers God’s past ...

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,” ...

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 ...

At noon on Sunday, June 14, we will once again gather here in Paxton at Pells and Market streets downtown to peacefully protest and march against the actions and policies of President Donald Trump, ...

SPRINGFIELD — Nearly 400 bills cleared both chambers of the General Assembly this session, with more than 150 of them moving in the session’s final week. Aside from the $56 billion budget package, 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 ...