The Paxton Police Department released the following list of recent activity: -- Nicholas M. Czarny, 30, of Lockport, was ...

A suburban Chicago man remained jailed in Ford County on Wednesday, Oct. 9, following his arrest for the alleged sexual ...

The Rantoul/Paxton-Buckley-Loda soccer team tied 2-2 with Bloomington Central Catholic on Tuesday. Erick Garcia scored both ...

ILLINI PRAIRIE CONFERENCE MEET At Rantoul VARSITY GIRLS Team scores 1. Unity, 31; 2. St. Joseph-Ogden, 63; 3. PBL, 81; 4.

The Paxton-Buckley-Loda and Tri-Point Junior High School cross country teams competed in a meet on Tuesday. The PBL boys ...

A proposed ordinance regulating the siting of carbon dioxide sequestration facilities in Ford County will be considered this ...

After learning she had terminal Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer in July 2019, Heidi Punke Brown “wallowed in self-pity” at ...

For more than 30 years, I worked among fellow journalists who were passionate watchdogs reporting on the actions of people in ...

The Ford County Board’s finance committee is expected to discuss a proposed decommissioning agreement for the county’s first ...

ABOVE: Miriam Pietkiewicz sits on a memorial bench at Coady Park in Paxton that is dedicated in memory of her late father, ...

The Ford County Sheriff’s Office issued 40 traffic citations in September, including 23 for speeding, three for driving on a suspended or revoked driver’s license and two each for operating an ...

Following are Halloween trickor treating hours for area communities: Buckley — 4-7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31. (Also, there may ...