LASALLE – LaSalle-Peru High School students will have the opportunity to participate in a free heart screening this spring. The Young Hearts for Life Program will be coming to LP high School on April 30th to provide free electrocardiograms to identify high school students at risk for ...Read more
LASALLE – After much anticipation, the city of LaSalle will soon be able to finance an over 100 acre expansion of Rotary Park. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources announced that the $400,000 grant will go towards the Rotary Park Expansion project. Economic Development ...Read more
OGLESBY – Oglesby’s Police Chief will keep his job after the Commissioner of Public Health and Safety attempted to terminate it last week. There was standing room only at Oglesby’s city hall Monday night, when the council convened to hear the legal opinions of City Attorney James ...Read more
MENDOTA – A Mendota man was arrested twice within 24 hours on charges of retail theft and burglary. The Mendota police department say that on Friday they were called to investigate a reported retail theft at a grocery store. The following day, 21-year-old Brandon E. Thompson was arrested at the ...Read more
MENDOTA – The Friends of the Track Fund Committee made an appearance at Monday night’s Mendota City Council Meeting. A representative from the committee explained that the Elementary School had just resurfaced the track and that the committee was trying to raise half of the cost in order ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed a law that eliminates driver’s license suspensions for most non-moving violations. The Democrat signed the measure last week. He says it will allow tens of thousands of motorists to have driving privileges reinstated. That means ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Police say one man may have killed as many as a dozen Chicago-area girls and young woman in the late ‘70s and early 1980s, and their investigations into his actions and victims indicate how easy it was then for a serial killer to escape detection. Experts say Bruce Lindahl, who ...Read more
UNDATED – The American Red Cross has extended its urgent call for donors of all blood types to give blood. With influenza escalating across the country and preventing some donors from giving, and winter weather threatening to cancel blood drives, the Red Cross now has a critical shortage ...Read more
OTTAWA – LaSalle County’s Naloxone Program saved 37 lives in 2019. According to the program’s annual report, nearly 62 doses of Narcan Nasal Spray were used by law enforcement in 37 overdose response incidents, less than the 100 doses in 54 incidents the year before. Zero deaths ...Read more
OTTAWA – Conservation police say the search for a missing Ottawa woman could encompass a wide area after authorities located belongings near the Starved Rock Lock and Dam. According to Conservation Police Sergeant Phil Wire, the investigation continues using sonar equipment and drag hooks ...Read more
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