ILLINOIS — Following a difficult Fourth of July week for blood and platelet donations and ongoing challenges finding new blood donors, the American Red Cross now faces a blood shortage and has issued an emergency call for eligible individuals of all blood types to give now and prevent delays ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois officials have fixed the problem with the unemployment benefits program that delayed checks to about 29,000 claimants. The Illinois Departments of Employment Security and Innovation and Technology restored the benefits information system and website. Claimants ...Read more
SPRING VALLEY – Lane closures for resurfacing will begin on US Route 6 and IL Route 89 from Mary Street to I-80 in Spring Valley on Monday. Daytime lane closures controlled by flaggers will impact travel. Alternatives routes should be considered. Work is expected to continue into the ...Read more
OTTAWA – LaSalle County Board members rejected a grain elevator company’s request for a wider road to alleviate truck traffic. Safety Manager John Janz of Ruff Brothers Grain in Leonore told the board, the widening of their entrance from 50 to 100 feet would get trucks off of the road ...Read more
OGLESBY – Boaters looking to venture out on the Vermillion River at Lowell are out of luck. Bob Herbst, who runs the only whitewater rafting on the river says business is closed this weekend due to low waters reaching just two feet. He says were going to need another downpour of a couple ...Read more
SPRING VALLEY – A Spring Valley man facing murder charges is expected to enter his plea in court next week. 37-year-old Eddie Lee Metgen was charged in June with first degree murder of 28-year-old Marissa Roberts who was found dead in her Spring Valley apartment on April ...Read more
OGLESBY – The lower dells area, trails, horseback campground and most of the horseback trails have now reopened at Matthiessen State Park. Posted closures along the Vermillion River, including the connecting trail from the Dells area to the Vermillion River area remain wash out. ...Read more
OGLESBY – Incoming Illinois Valley Community College agriculture student Miriam Hoffman of Earlville has been selected as this year’s FFA National Officer Candidate from Illinois, IVCC President Jerry Corcoran announced at Thursday’s board meeting. Last year Hoffman served as state FFA ...Read more
OGLESBY – Illinois Valley Community College’s Transfer Academy successfully launched this summer at Ottawa Center as students banked college credit while still in high school, the IVCC board learned Thursday. IVCC reports that 22 Transfer Academy students are enrolled this summer at ...Read more
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) — A southern Illinois man who admitted to using blackmail to obtain nude pictures of about 100 girls and women has been sentenced to 35 years in prison. Joshua P. Breckel of Mascoutah was accused in U.S. District Court of using social media to obtain sexually explicit ...Read more
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