Ford County, IL

URBANA — Lilly Lahr, Sophia Ray, Korah Palumbo and Cecilia Goodin finished third in the girls’ 4×800 relay with a time of 11:16.74 for the Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley High School track and field team during Monday’s honor roll meet in Urbana. Savannah Shumate finished fourth in the...

There have been 81,417,100 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States to date – and that number continues to grow. In the Champaign-Urbana metropolitan area, located in Illinois, a total of 75,861 cases of COVID-19 have been reported. Adjusted for population, there have been 31,705 confirmed infections for every 100,000 people in the area […]

Location: 901 W Main Street (Hoopeston Animal Rescue) Details: HFD was dispatched to the above location for a smoke alarm. No injuries were reported. Details: HPD officers conducted a traffic stop a computer search showed Mr. Simpson to have a warrant out of Ford County. Mr. Simpson was arrested and transported to HPD for processing and later transported to Ford County Jail.

PAXTON, Ill. (WCIA) — Health departments around central Illinois are teaming up to cut down on overdoses. The Champaign-Urbana Public Health District got a grant for Narcan to spread throughout nearby counties and save lives. Champaign-Urbana shared a portion of the grant with Ford County to increase the impact across the region. They said an […]

FISHER – The Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley High School boys track and field team finished fifth with a score of 33 during Tuesday’s Heart of Illinois Conference Meet. Markus Miguel finished second in the shot put with a throw of 13.65 meters while Jake Zumwalt finished ninth with a throw of 10.6 meters.

There have been 80,854,800 confrimed cases of COVID-19 in the United States to date – and that number continues to grow. In the Champaign-Urbana metropolitan area, located in Illinois, a total of 74,794 cases of COVID-19 have been reported. Adjusted for population, there have been 31,259 confirmed infections for every 100,000 people in the area […]

GIBSON CITY — With Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley High School leading the way, all three of Ford County’s public high schools were ranked among the top 50 percent of public high schools in Illinois in U.S. News and World Report’s 2022 rankings. Among 673 public high schools in the...

A police chase spurred by a carjacking on the Near North Side ended with two suspects dead in a river on the Far South Side early Saturday, authorities said. Three others were in custody following the pursuit of the stolen vehicle on the Bishop Ford Freeway near Lansing, according to Illinois State Police.

..THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL FORD AND NORTHWESTERN IROQUOIS COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 800 PM CDT... The storm which prompted the warning has moved out of the area. Therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire. A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 1000 PM CDT for east central Illinois. _____________________________________________________________________

WATSEKA – The Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley Middle School boys track and field teams each won the Twin County Conference championship at Monday’s conference meet. The GCMS seventh-grade boys finished with a score of 111, ahead of Clifton J.L. Nash (95), while the eighth-grade boys finished with a score of 116 ahead of Prairie Central (104).

DOWNS – The Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley High School softball team lost 9-2 to Tri-Valley on Friday. Cally Kroon hit 2-for-3 with a run scored while Kyra Kietzman produced an RBI. On the mound, Mallory Rosendahl allowed six runs – two earned – on five hits and three walks with four...

Though cases of the omicron variant appear to have peaked in the United States, the virus continues to claim lives. So far, more than 980,000 Americans have died from the virus – more than the total number of Americans killed in World War I and World War II combined. In the Champaign-Urbana metropolitan area, located […]

ST. JOSEPH – The Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley High School softball team lost 10-0 to St. Joseph-Ogden on Tuesday. Kyra Kietzman provided GCMS’s lone hit. On the mound, Brynn Boundy allowed seven runs – four earned – on six hits and two walks with three strikeouts through four innings pitched. Mallory Rosendahl allowed three earned runs on four hits and no walks with one strikeout through one-third of an inning.

There have been 80,063,900 reported cases of COVID-19 in the United States to date – and that number continues to grow. In the Champaign-Urbana metropolitan area, located in Illinois, a total of 73,228 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 30,604 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the […]

PAXTON — A former Champaign woman already serving a four-year prison sentence for trying to defraud drug and alcohol screening tests has been sentenced to two additional years behind bars after pleading guilty to possession of a controlled substance and driving with a revoked driver’s license. Christy L....

Though cases of the omicron variant appear to have peaked in the United States, the virus continues to claim lives. So far, more than 970,000 Americans have died from the virus — more than the total number of Americans killed in World War I and World War II combined. In the Champaign-Urbana metropolitan area, located […]