We have the name now of that former Olivet student, accused of making threatening statements against the University earlier this week. In a Facebook post, Bourbonnais Police say Urbana Police arrested Boston Brooks Monday for allegedly making a terrorist threat against ONU. Brooks had a bond hearing in Urbana Court Wed...

Wilmington police allegedly dropped off a Venezuelan immigrant in Kankakee, instead of arresting him, after he allegedly tried to get into multiple Wilmington homes. Media reports say the man told a woman in one home at the time that he was an immigrant and needed help that the government was not providing and he has ...

In Will County Court Tuesday, Judge David Carlson ruled that prosecutors can charge Jeremy Boshears in a second trial for the 2017 death of 24 year old Katie Kearns of New Lenox. In his first trial, Boshears was convicted of killing Kearns at the Joliet Outlaws Club then putting her body in her SUV and stashing the ve...

A Wilmington woman who was stopped by Will County Sheriff's police on Rt. 113 near I-55 on March 28th for a broken windshield, and ended up being arrested on an outstanding warrant, is also now facing charges of aggravated battery to police. Deputies, after being told she was going to be taken into custody on the warr...

Bradley police were called to a domestic incident last night in the 1500 block of Northfield Meadows Blvd. Upon arrival officers found multiple people at the home where a man and a woman had been attacked allegedly by Robert A. Miller of Bourbonnais. According to police it began with an argument between two people wh...

A Student at Olivet Nazarene University may have prevented a tragedy when they reported to school officials Monday that he had been communicating with a former student with a grudge against the school who was making threats against the university and spoke of taking some kind of action today. The school called Bourbo...

A Wheatfield, Indiana man has been arrested in connection with a shooting incident that occurred in Mid-March at a home northwest of Wheatfield. Jasper County Sheriff's police report that 24 year old Max M. Maglio was arrested for firing the shot that penetrated the window of a baby's nursery at a nearby home. The me...

Water and sewer rates are going up in the Village of Gardner. Rates will be going up five percent with the start of the new fiscal year after an effort to abate the increase failed at this week's village board meeting. The increase follows the results of a survey that showed Gardner water and sewer rates are current...