ST. LOUIS (AP) — A 30-year-old Illinois man is charged with assault after his new wife died after falling from the seventh floor of a parking garage near Busch Stadium. Bradley Jenkins, of Taylorville, Illinois, was charged Monday with third-degree domestic assault, a felony, in the death of ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge in central Illinois will continue vetting would-be jurors at the death penalty trial of a former University of Illinois student charged with killing a visiting Chinese scholar. Tuesday will be the second day of a process to pick a jury to hear evidence against ...Read more
LASALLE – The U.S Environmental Protection Agency made changes to soil clean up in LaSalle from the Matthiessen and Hegeler Zinc Company. A public meeting was held Monday at LaSalle-Peru High School Auditorium by project manager Damaree Collier to discuss changes to residential soil cleanup ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s police chief is decrying a “despicable level of violence” during a weekend in which 52 people in the city were shot, eight of them fatally, and two people were stabbed to death. Superintendent Eddie Johnson said police believe most of the shootings ...Read more
OTTAWA – Every cloud has a silver lining and this week shows a glimmer of hope to plant corn in what seems like the longest downpour of ill-suited weather for local farmers. According to the National Weather Service’s forecast, were likely to see scattered showers with lesser rainfall ...Read more
PERU – The Illinois Valley Coal Miners Youth Rugby Team took home the title of 2019 Middle School State Champions, Sunday. The 5th through 6th grade boys took on Fox Valley in a round robin tournament, beating them by a whopping 69 to zero. River Forest bested the Miners in the ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois lawmakers have wrapped up their spring session after a whirlwind week that produced a budget, a state construction plan and billions of dollars in tax increases to fund it, more gambling, legalized marijuana use and protections for abortion. The Senate took ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police are investigating after video was posted online showing the shooting death of a woman who was shielding her toddler from gunfire. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi released a statement Sunday night calling the video’s release “unauthorized.” ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — An exhibit focusing on World War II is to open on the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. Museum officials say “In This Great Struggle: The Greatest Generation Remembers World War II” opens Thursday ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — A former University of Illinois graduate student is set to stand trial in the 2017 disappearance and suspected killing of a visiting scholar from China — a case in which the death penalty is possible and that has been closely watched in the home country of the victim, whose ...Read more
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