BEAVERVILLE — A St. Anne man died in a one-vehicle crash Thursday, Nov. 7, in rural Beaverville in northern Iroquois County. The Iroquois County Sheriff’s Office said Robert Hubert, 68, was pronounced dead while being flown from the scene to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn by a Lifestar helicopter from Joliet. Sheriff’s deputies were called around 1:38 p.m. […]
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Gibson City man, 27, dies in crash east of Gibson City
GIBSON CITY — A Gibson City man died in a one-vehicle crash east of Gibson City early Sunday. Tyler S. Hinshaw, 27, was pronounced dead at 2:49 a.m. Sunday at the scene on Illinois 9 at Ford County Road 625 East, Coroner Brandon Roderick said. Following an autopsy Monday, Roderick said the preliminary cause of death was blunt force trauma, […]
Toolbox, tools donated to GCMS FFA chapter in Colin Kristensen’s memory
GIBSON CITY — When Colin Kristensen joined Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley High School’s FFA chapter during his sophomore year, one of his goals was to learn more about ag mechanics — a potential career path. The teen, according to his father, seemed destined to become a professional mechanic of some kind. Just days before his junior year of high school was to […]
Despite efforts to save him, driver of Jeep submerged in Bayles Lake dies
BAYLES LAKE — Far from his home in suburban Sacramento, Calif., Steven Meeks was admiring the beauty of Bayles Lake late Saturday morning when something awry caught the eye of his sister and his two nieces, who accompanied him on a trip to the lake in southwestern Iroquois County to help get him acquainted with the area while here for […]
Two Paxton teens killed when T-boned by stolen car fleeing police
BUTLER TOWNSHIP — The Paxton-Buckley-Loda school district is mourning the deaths of an incoming PBL High School senior and 2022 graduate who were tragically killed Tuesday night when their vehicle was broadsided by a stolen car that had just been involved in a high-speed chase with Rantoul police. The two-vehicle crash south of Rankin in northwest Vermilion County claimed the […]
Man dies in crash involving box van, semi-trailer on I-57 in Champaign
CHAMPAIGN — A Cook County man died in an early-morning crash Thursday involving a box van and semi-trailer on Interstate 57 in west Champaign. Champaign County Coroner Duane Northrup said Jorge E. De La O, 23, of Cicero, was pronounced dead at 6:08 a.m. in the emergency room at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana, where he was taken after the […]