Nick Africano, Kankakee County’s treasurer and chairman of the county’s Republican Party, was issued a notice to appear for alleged disorderly conduct following a traffic incident which occurred last week in Kankakee.

A Wilmington mother has been charged with desecration of her infant daughter, who was born in a toilet and then buried in a beer box. Cause of child's death not yet known.

No charges were filed regarding the Nov. 23 shooting death of a Chicago man along East Court Street in Kankakee.

Kankakee police said Tuesday they interviewed a person of interest in the shooting death of 20-year-old Donnie E. Smith, of Chicago, Sunday night.

Earlier this month, a Momence man agreed to plead guilty to battering a 72-year-old man in Momence in June.

A 20-year-old Chicago man was killed Sunday night in Kankakee, a victim of a shooting.

Kankakee County Circuit Judge Kathy Bradshaw-Elliott sentenced Xandria Harris to 10 years Friday for being in direct contempt of court.

Bradley police arrested two men Nov. 5 for allegedly passing counterfeit $100 in Bradley.

A Kankakee man was arrested by Kankakee police following an incident in which he allegedly threatened a neighbor with a firearm.