OTTAWA – A multiple day episode of dangerous heat is expected beginning Thursday into the start of the weekend. This heat will expand into the area Thursday afternoon and persist through Saturday. Area cooling centers will be open when possible for residents in the area to escape the ...Read more
LASALLE – Multiple agencies were involved in the arrest on July 1st of a LaSalle man on drug charges. Agents from the LaSalle and Peru Police Departments, plus the Tri County Drug Enforcement Narcotics Investigation assisted in the investigation into alleged cocaine sales in Peru. ...Read more
PERU – A sealed warrant for two counts of unlawful delivery of Cocaine have put a Peru man in the LaSalle County Jail. According Peru Police Chief Doug Bernabei 39 year-old Kilman R. Johnson was arrested on July 5th and taken to the LaSalle County Jail. Johnson is being held at the ...Read more
DYER, Ind. (AP) — A teen from Streator who was visiting her Grandparents has died after a house fire on Sunday. She was the second victim of a fire that destroyed a northwestern Indiana home. Fourteen-year-old Jasmine Levi of Streator, Illinois was pronounced dead Sunday at the University ...Read more
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — Prosecutors and defense attorneys are delivering final arguments to jurors on whether a former University of Illinois doctoral student should be sentenced to death for killing a young scholar from China. Closing arguments Wednesday come after testimony in the death-penalty ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered R. Kelly held in jail without bond after a prosecutor warned that the singer accused of having sex with minors and trying to cover up the crimes would pose an extreme danger to young girls if set free. “If he was attracted to middle school ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Planned Parenthood of Illinois has announced it will stop accepting federal funds because of a new Trump administration rule barring family planning clinics from referring women for abortions. The administration notified clinics Monday that in the addition to immediately ...Read more
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A former southern Illinois assistant public defender who is accused of practicing law without a license is facing new charges for writing bad checks. Kelcie Miller was charged last month with deceptive practices for writing the checks in northern Illinois’ ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s inspector general says probes by the city’s newly formed police oversight agency were compromised by an investigator who had relatives and friends, all police officers, under investigation. In a report released Tuesday, Inspector General Joe Ferguson says a ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson is urging President Donald Trump to pardon former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich for his corruption crimes. Jackson and his son, Jesse Jackson Jr., say Blagojevich’s 14-year prison sentence was “unfair and unnecessary.” They say he was a ...Read more
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