Beecher Police have issued a "community safety notice" after they got several reports over the weekend of teenagers ringing doorbells and kicking or banging on doors at homes throughout the community then running away. In a Facebook post, Beecher Police say while it may be intended as a prank, the behavior ca...

Manteno Fire Department personnel handled a traffic crash and a house fire within a half hour of each other Friday evening. In a press release, Manteno Community Fire Protection District Fire Chief Rick Petersen says firefighters were called to a motorcycle crash on Route 45 at 10-thousand-North Road just after 4:30 Fr...

Gas prices stayed pretty stable over the weekend. Triple-A says the average cost for a gallon of regular no-lead gas is four-dollars-48 cents across the Land of Lincoln. That's actually down a penny overnight, but some 20 cents more expensive than the cost one week ago. Gas in the Kankakee area is running four-dollars-...

The Wilmington Fire Protection District Sunday afternoon answered several calls for a reported gas leak. In a Facebook post, Wilmington Fire say they believe the odor was not a natural gas leak, but instead was coming from the ExxonMobile refinery in Joliet. They added there were no air quality issues in Wilmington tha...