Samantha Cox, a Paxton resident, ran 26.2 miles on Sunday, Nov. 3, in the New York City Marathon. This was Cox’s fifth New ...

PAXTON — With the sun peeking through the clouds on a calm Wednesday morning in downtown Paxton, the city’s longtime mayor, ...

A fourth — perhaps even a fifth — night of talks at the Ford County Courthouse could be needed for the Ford County Zoning Board of Appeals to finish its public hearing and make a recommendation to the ...

Autocorrect can be fun and prophetic. Every time I type the word “election,” autocorrect changes it to “rejection.” Maybe ...

The voter turnout eclipsed 70% in Ford and Iroquois counties for the Nov. 5 general election, with the presidential race the ...

Gibson City-Melvin Sibley High School and Tri-Point Junior High/Upper Elementary School — have received “exemplary” status on ...

It’s November already, and it’s time to prepare for the holidays. The University of Illinois Extension’s website has ...

There have been many team efforts in the history of the Paxton-Buckley-Loda school district to help children. None was more ...

The Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley seventh-grade girls basketball team won 21-17 over Tri-Point on Tuesday. Avery Bielfeldt and Lexi Farmer each had six points for GCMS while Sophia Overbey had four points ...

The Cissna Park High School volleyball team won 25-20, 25-23 over Yorkville Christian in the IHSA Class 1A Ottawa Marquette ...

For Halloween, the wife and I headed to Glendale, Ariz., for a Tucker Carlson Live tour, with Donald Trump, in a benefit for hurricane victims. There were 18,000 people in attendance, the capacity of ...

Following is a list of cases filed recently in Ford County Circuit Court, as listed at www.judici.com: DUI • Tyler J. McComas, 31, of Paxton, for driving under the influence of alcohol, illegal ...