SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The House Executive Committee has approved a plan pushed by the incoming governor to increase salaries he can offer his incoming cabinet. The committee voted unanimously Monday to increase salaries by 15 percent for agency directors and assistant directors hired by ...Read more
OTTAWA – No fatalities were reported in Ottawa Police Departments 2018 Traffic Crash Results. Collected and released by the Ottawa Police Department’s Illinois Traffic Crash reporting system, 735 traffic accidents were reported in 2018; 7 more than last year. Friday had the most ...Read more
SPRING VALLEY – Sewer violators in Spring Valley could financially set the city back. According to Spring Valley sewer treatment operator, Rob Baracani, findings in the city’s sewer system like sock, baby wipes and mop heads is causing pump failures, costing the city thousands of ...Read more
FARMERSBURG, Ind. (AP) — Police are seeking the public’s help as they look for a break in a western Indiana woman’s unsolved 1981 killing. Sarah “Jeanette” Benson was fatally shot Jan. 2, 1981, in her rural home in Farmersburg, about 15 miles south of Terre Haute near ...Read more
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Railway commuters traveling between St. Louis and Chicago have yet to see faster rail journeys, despite most of the Amtrak corridor’s $1.95 billon upgrade concluding a year ago. Delays in installing and testing new GPS-related safety technology kept Amtrak trains from ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — An investigator with Chicago’s police oversight agency has been charged with falsely reporting a co-worker was planning a mass shooting at its office. Thirty-five-year-old Alison Yohanna of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability was ordered held on $10,000 bond ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — American Airlines says a passenger’s electronic cigarette caused a small fire on a flight from Las Vegas to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. American Airlines spokeswoman Leslie Scott says the e-cigarette’s battery overheated shortly after Flight ...Read more
FREEBURG, Ill. (AP) — The owner of a southwestern Illinois farm is breeding Arabian horses in an unlikely bid to sell the animals to buyers in Saudi Arabia. Rodger Davis owns the 300-acre Riding Center near Freeburg, just east of St. Louis. Davis said that he’s been meeting with Saudi ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — A firefighter has been injured in a blaze at a high-rise construction site in downtown Chicago. Chicago Fire media affairs says firefighters were called to a fire just before 6 a.m. Saturday at the Vista Tower site on East Wacker Drive. The fire was contained to a basement ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The U.S. Senate has confirmed a new U.S. attorney for central Illinois five months after President Donald Trump nominated him. John Milhiser has been the acting U.S. attorney for the 46-county region since that nomination. The Senate’s unanimous voice vote on ...Read more
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