OGLESBY – The Illinois Valley Community College’s Wind Ensemble will offer a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 5 in the Dr. Mary Margaret Weeg Cultural Centre. The performance will likely include the music of Morton Gould, Franz Biebl, John Philip Sousa, Percy Aldridge Grainger, ...Read more
MARSEILLES – The Marseilles community, along with a 90s rock band guitarist with roots in the area honored a union worker who was killed protesting for work. In commemoration of Workers Day, city officials unveiled a roadside plaque honoring Steve Sutton, a local Joliet laborer ...Read more
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Illinois and seven other Midwest states have asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for a permanent waiver that will allow each state to continue selling ethanol blended gas year-round without restriction. The EPA’s decision last week to suspend ...Read more
By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A divided Missouri Senate has narrowly voted to allow some food stamp recipients to use their benefits at restaurants. The Senate voted 18-15 Thursday for legislation extending the restaurant option to an estimated 182,000 households ...Read more
In a speech on Thursday, President Joe Biden called on Congress to immediately pass a measure for $33 billion in additional emergency support to Ukraine to defend against Russian forces. The United States have already given billions to the Ukraine war effort. In his remarks Thursday, the ...Read more
On Thursday, the Oklahoma House passed a bill banning abortions after the sixth week of pregnancy, sending it to Governor Kevin Stitt for his signature to become law. The S.B. 1503 bill (detailed in full here) is modeled after Texas’ six-week abortion ban law. The bill states in part that ...Read more
PERU – A car seat safety check is coming to Peru on Saturday. The Peru Police Department will be hosting the event at their headquarters on North Peoria Street from 9 AM to Noon. Parents and caregivers will be given the opportunity to work with qualified technicians to make sure car seats ...Read more
DEKALB, Ill. (AP) — Meta, the parent company of Facebook, is expanding a data center in northern Illinois and says more than 200 operational jobs will be based there once complete. The company announced the expansion Wednesday. The company announced its initial plan for the DeKalb data center ...Read more
On Wednesday, a judge in Miami vacated the life sentence of Thomas “Jay” Raynard James, a 55-year-old Black man who prosecutors said was wrongfully convicted because of mistaken identity in 1991. As he left a Miami courtroom with his attorneys and family members, James said: “I feel ...Read more
The alleged suspect in a shooting that killed three people at a hotel in Biloxi on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast was found dead in the nearby city of Gulfport hours later, after a standoff with police. Gulfport Police Department’s incoming chief Adam Cooper said that the man holed up at a ...Read more
