Ford County News

The Ford County Fair is coming up later this month. It's going to be in Melvin. Miss Ford County Sara Diesburg is here to tell us all about it.

The National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm watch until 1 a.m. Thursday for Ford and Iroquois counties.

Firefighters were called at 4:02 a.m. to 1180 Bel Air Drive, where they found the house fully involved.

The Iroquois County Board chairman said Friday that he expects his board to uphold a committee's decision to recommend the removal of the Ford-Iroquois Public Health Department's embattled administrator.

The Illinois attorney general's office is asking the Ford-Iroquois Public Health Department to respond to a Ford County newspaper's claim that the agency improperly denied an open-records request last month.

The reach of Presence Health may soon be stretching across the Iroquois County line and into Watseka.

Rising country star Dustin Lynch, whose breakthrough hit "Cowboys and Angels" has been nominated for County Music Television's Breakthrough Song of the Year award, will headline the Ford County Fair in Melvin on June 25. His latest, "She Cranks My Tractor," should be a hit there at the 7 p.m. show, which will be opened by country rockers ... (more)

The family of a 30-year-old Hoopeston man who died inside the Ford County Jail last year is suing the Ford County Sheriff's department for allegedly putting the man in solitary confinement and denying him medical care.

A man is being held on $25,000 dollar bond. Darrell Woods was arrested Saturday for robbing a home.

The father of a 30-year-old Hoopeston man who was found dead in his cell at the Ford County Jail last May has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the county, its sheriff and two jail employees.

Police are trying to determine how a 39-year-old Herscher man wound up with large gash across his face early Saturday morning.

It did not take long for the University of Illinois Extension to find another building to rent for use as its new Onarga office.