During Wednesday morning's meeting of the Kankakee County Board's Criminal Justice Committee, County Coroner Bob Gessner gave the committee and update on overdose deaths so far this year Gessner added that so far this year, the average age of an overdose victim is 46 years old.

A motorcyclist is dead following a crash near St. Anne Tuesday night. Illinois State Police say the crash happened on Route 1 near four-thousand South Road about 7:30 Tuesday night and involved a motorcycle and an SUV. Kankakee County Coroner Bob Gessner identified the cyclist as 48-year-old Charles Allan Wickens of St...

During Wednesday morning's meeting of the Kankakee County Board's Criminal Justice Committee, State's Attorney Jim Rowe was asked about any news coming out of Springfield when it comes to the Safe-T act Rowe said in his opinion, the only changes making their way out of committee and to the floor for make things less sa...

During Wednesday morning's meeting of the Kankakee County Board's Criminal Justice Committee, County Sheriff Mike Downey told the committee he's been working with 79th District State Representative Jackie Haas on a piece of legislation that would return prison inmates to the county jail for the last six months of their...