Watseka News

Family and friends of a 15-year-old Martinton teen should have been celebrating her sweet sixteen birthday, but instead are asking for help to find the girl, who left her family's home Friday and hasn't been heard from since.

There has been another rollover in the grand prize for the multistate Mega Millions lottery game_ to $94 million.

A 27-year-old man is being held on $1 million bond after being accused of stabbing two Sheldon men to death.

When we think of Blues music, often times cities like Chicago, St. Louis, or Memphis come to mind.

Dralle's of Watseka is among approximately 3,600 GM dealerships across the United States that will continue to serve the public.

The changing of the guard took place at the Hoopeston city council meeting Tuesday evening as the newly elected officials of the city council and Mayor were sworn in.

WATSEKA – A Champaign man was being held at the Iroquois County Jail after state police found suspected illegal drugs in his car Thursday night.

WATSEKA – A former firefighter who admitted setting one of 12 suspicious blazes in the Loda area in fall 2007 was sentenced to three years in state prison Wednesday afternoon.

WATSEKA – A Watseka man is being held on first-degree murder charges in the shooting death of a man outside a Watseka tavern Tuesday.

Watseka police are investigating a reported killing that took place earlier Tuesday evening on Walnut Street downtown in the vicinity of McSki's Place, a tavern just west of Second Street.

If you would like to visit a beautifully-restored Art Deco theater and enjoy some quality entertainment and dining while you're there, just head north on Illinois Route 1 into the heart of downtown Watseka.

The National Weather Service reports that the flood warning for the Iroquois River will continue until Thursday morning or until the warning is canceled.

But not this year. a Former Bourbonnais resident Dan Carter never expected a day like this, but then he didna t expect a day like September 22, 2008, either.

Monday, February 9, 2009, 4:30 PM by Julie Harker The Illinois Attorney General's office announces the former president of a defunct grain elevator in Illinois has been indicted on theft charges and Illinois ...

Christina Renee Silkwood, 36, passed away suddenly at 5:20 p.m. Monday, Jan. 26, 2009, at the Hawaii Medical Center East in Honolulu.

An Iroquois County couple allegedly defrauded a Bloomington bank branch and several shareholders of a nearby grain elevator out of about $5 million, a federal grand jury alleged Wednesday.

PEORIA – A federal grand jury indicted a Milford couple Wednesday, accusing them of trying to defraud an Iroquois County grain company's stockholders of more than $5 million.

People in Watseka are used to the water coming up. Tricia Downs said she was one of them.

Watseka resident George Shuper has continued on with his life after last year's floods.

A strong Alberta Clipper will dig southeast across the Midwest today, moving to west central Illinois by this evening, then strengthening as it continues east toward Detroit tonight.