CISSNA PARK – The Cissna Park High School girls basketball team won 54-23 over Armstrong-Potomac on Thursday. Lauryn Hamrick scored her 1,000th point during the game, joining 11 other players in ...

HOOPESTON – The Paxton-Buckley-Loda eighth-grade volleyball team won 25-13, 25-15 over Hoopeston Area on Thursday. Tinley Eichelberger had seven kills and three digs while Tori Rock had three assists ...

CISSNA PARK – The Cissna Park High School girls basketball team won 54-23 over Armstrong-Potomac on Thursday. Lauryn Hamrick scored her 1,000th point during the game, joining 11 other players in ...

TUSCOLA – The Paxton-Buckley-Loda varsity girls basketball team won 43-39 over Tuscola on Thursday. Kylie Rust scored 11 points for PBL (5-10) while Olivia Rehg had nine points, Audrey McCoy had eight ...

PAXTON — The Paxton Police Department released the following list of recent activity: -- Hillary D. Puls, 44, of Paxton, was arrested for possession of 1.5 grams of methamphetamine and possession of 1 ...

DANVILLE — Like many others, Ford County Board members were blindsided by Friday’s news that the CRIS Rural Mass Transit District would be ceasing operations, effective immediately, just half a year ...

PAXTON — The Ford County Sheriff’s Office issued 20 traffic citations in December, including four for speeding; three each for operating an uninsured vehicle, improper traffic lane usage and driving ...

PAXTON — An elderly Gibson City man has been arrested and charged with aggravated arson for allegedly setting fire to his apartment the day after Christmas. On Monday, Dec. 29, Ford County State’s ...

Ever been to the Kennedy Center in New York City? Me neither. Yet our money helps fund it. The center receives roughly $45 million per year in federal support, and now President Donald Trump has ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Farmers are now learning how much aid they can expect to receive from a $12 billion package that President Donald Trump announced. The U.S. Department of Agriculture released the ...

Supposedly there’s a national penny shortage. I haven’t noticed — I’ve got a water bottle full of them in the closet — but we’re told this is serious business. Commissions have been formed. Reports ...

DANVILLE — Like many others, Ford County Board members were blindsided by Friday’s news that the CRIS Rural Mass Transit District would be ceasing operations, effective immediately, just half a year ...