Cooksville News

McLean County was under a tornado warning for a half hour this afternoon because a trained spotter confirmed a funnel cloud aloft and other sightings between Route 9 and Route 165 in the area of Cooksville and ...

A large crew of firefighters was able to get a barn fire under control Wednesday morning, saving a nearby machine shed that had been threatened on the property south of Colfax. via Fire Engineering

Corn Belt Energy is reporting two set of outages in Tazewell and McLean County. One outage, which is affecting nearly 3,500 customers, the substations in Hopedale, Armington, and Olympia. via Http

A Cooksville woman involved in a large-scale marijuana growing operation was sentenced to two years of probation. via The Pantagraph

“From what I've heard, the yields have been very good”

' Out-of-control trash burns ignited many of the field fires in McLean and neighboring counties over the weekend, causing damage to valuable farmland while keeping rural firefighters busy. via The Pantagraph

“Winds were gusting up to 35 mph and that's expected to continue through (Sunday night)”

' An apparent out-of-control trash burn southwest of Bloomington became a large, wind-fueled field fire Sunday afternoon, jumping from field to field and creating a white smoke plume visible for miles. via Pantagraph