Oakwood News

Here's a look at recent law enforcement calls: Danville Monday: Eight shotgun shells stolen in a vehicle burglary in the first block of Dodge Street.

Area residents are waiting to find out whether the storm that hit Oakwood on Friday night - snapping telephone poles in half and knocking down power lines - was indeed a tornado.

Trees were uprooted, power was cut and wind ripped a train from its tracks. The sky kept lighting up like a fireworks show and it went on for hours.

Several homes will get a fresh look this weekend as part of HALO's Painting Blitz.

The village clean-up day has been rescheduled to June 20 from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. due to a conflict with a clean-up day in another village, the village board announced Monday night.. The Oakwood clean-up day is open for Oakwood residents only and proof of identification may be required.

A family journeyed to East Central Illinois from its home in Texas. The Kaiyewus say police here shot their youngest son to death for no reason.

The state and county have lifted boating restrictions on the Middlefork River in Vermilion County.

Police shoot and kill a man who led them on a cross county chase. Police say the initial stop was made on Route 130.

Three weeks after a man riddled Steven Foster with nine bullet wounds, he is thanking God for allowing him to survive.

Pizzeria employees tempted fate by trying to scare off a would-be armed robber Sunday night.

An Oakwood family looks for anything that may be left after fire tore through their home.

The family of a local member of the military suffered a blow Saturday when its house burned to the ground.

Authorities filed felony charges Monday against two young men who allegedly chased down and shot a 22-year-old man eight times outside his apartment in the Oakwood Estates housing complex.

Drug enforcement officers confiscated drugs worth several thousand dollars during a bust on Thursday.

A standoff with Indiana state and Vermillion County law enforcement ended without incident on Thursday.