The president of the Paxton-Buckley-Loda school district’s teachers’ union told the school board on Wednesday, June 11, that ...

For several years, a gentle soul roamed the streets of Gibson City, easily identified by his signature cowboy hat and flowing ...

The Paxton Pirates swim team won its first home meet of the 2025 season on Wednesday. The lady Pirates won 188-39 over the ...

On a Friday in late May, while their senior classmates were walking the stage and receiving their diplomas at Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School, Brady Young and Isaiah Busby were some 20 miles away in ...

Gibson Area Music Foundation member Cindy Farris-Morano presents a $3,000 check to Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley High School band ...

A lawsuit filed in Ford County Circuit Court alleges that a Paxton-Buckley-Loda school district teacher and former coach ...

Four contestants will vie for the title of Miss Ford County Fair Queen during the fair’s annual queen pageant ...

Very late on the night of Saturday, May 31, Illinois House Democrats rammed through Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s record-setting ...

Readers of this column know that for the past nine years or so, if Donald Trump said it, I was for it. It’s hard to argue ...

A former Gibson City-Melvin Sibley coach and teacher was arrested Thursday in Georgia on a warrant charging him in Ford ...

Scenes for the movie “Chili Finger” were filmed in downtown Paxton on Friday. Donna Pepper, executive director of Paxton Main Street, coordinated some of the local preparations for the film shoot.

A bottlenose dolphin at a Chicago zoo gave birth to a calf early Saturday morning with the help of a fellow mom, in a successful birth recorded on video by zoo staff. The dolphin calf was born at ...