Clifton News

Two downtown bars were among the nine businesses in Ford and Iroquois counties that were issued citations recently for allowing smoking inside their establishments, according to information obtained by the Paxton Record through the Illinois Freedom of Information Act.

Retiring U.S. Rep. Tim Johnson, R-Urbana, will hold town-hall meetings in Ford and Iroquois counties next week.

Sunday evening's showers turned into Monday morning's window-rattling thunderstorms.

Posted: 7:54 PM 5/6/12 A warm front moved northeast in the morning and brought storms by the middle of the afternoon.

For some, the decades of high school basketball, football, baseball and track would begin to blur before you blew out the candles on your 90th birthday party.