Hoopeston News

Danville Area Community College officials will confer nearly 450 associate degrees and certificates, and nearly 200 graduates will participate in this year's commencement exercises.

Hoopeston police have not yet made any arrests in the stabbing of a man on North Market Street last week.

Vermilion County has extended for another year Apex Wind Energy's building permit for the proposed 43-turbine Hoopeston Wind Project west of Rossville.

The Vermilion County Sheriff's Department continues to investigate a car-semitrailer truck collision that killed a 30-year-old Hoopeston man on Wednesday afternoon.

Sheriff's deputies are on the scene of an accident outside Hoopeston. It happened about 2 pm Wednesday on Route 9. Deputies say a car and truck collided and the semi caught fire.

If your doctor is at Carle, you'll have a new health insurance choice soon: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois.

State and local fire officials are investigating a fire that destroyed part of a popular restaurant and meat shop and damaged two other businesses housed in a row of old buildings in downtown Rossville early Thursday morning.

Investigators are looking for what caused a fire at a business early Thursday morning.

Louis to Chicago. The area from Hardin to Springfield to Hoopeston was greatly affected as was the area from Pontiac to Joliet to Chicago.

A tornado, following the same track as the famous "Tri-state Tornado" of 1925, struck the town of New Harmony, IN.