Whether as a substitute teacher or youth wrestling or football coach — or, since last week, as a city alderman — Matt ...

A dozen years ago, the ambitious visions of the late Joe Warner played a guiding role in the establishment of Paxton’s first ...

Paxton Hardware & Rental’s beloved 2-year-old male cat, Tapcon. Reward: A whole lot of love. The primarily black cat, with ...

A doctor at OSF St. Joseph Medical Center in Bloomington was charged last week with three felonies alleging he engaged in ...

My grandparents were Republicans. My dad, the former mayor of Paxton, was a Republican. I served 20 years as the Republican ...

The Chicago Bears remain focused on the city’s lakefront as the location for a nearly $5 billion stadium development project, team president Kevin Warren said Wednesday, Oct. 9. Warren held a news ...

The Paxton-Buckley-Loda seventh-grade girls basketball team won 13-10 over Tri-Point on Monday, Oct. 7. Emmalyn Shumate had ...

The Cissna Park High School volleyball team won 25-7, 25-12 over Danville Schlarman on Tuesday. Addison Lucht had seven kills ...

A student expelled from Paxton-Buckley Loda High School on Wednesday, Oct. 9, will be allowed to attend the READY program in Champaign for the remainder of this school year and would be allowed to ...

The Ford County Public Health Department will offer walk-in flu vaccination clinics at sites across the county to protect residents against influenza this fall. The health department will offer the ...

Following are Halloween trick-ortreating hours for area communities: Buckley — 4-7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31. (Also, there may be a trunkor treat event that night at the Buckley Lake, where kids can pick ...

Below are some sights from Tuesday's U10 Fall Tournament quarterfinal match, which Paxton won. Paxton will face Rantoul in the semifinals at 10 a.m. Saturday in Paxton. Digital copies of all these ...