ST. LOUIS (AP) — A newlywed Illinois prison guard has been charged with assault after his wife recorded a fight that ended with her being found dead at the bottom of a parking garage near the St. Louis Cardinal’s Stadium. Thirty-year-old Bradley Jenkins, of Taylorville, Illinois, was ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD – Pets are cherished family members in many Illinois homes, so it’s important for pet owners to have plans to keep their pets safe during and after emergencies. Throughout National Pet Preparedness Month in June, the Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA) and local emergency ...Read more
OTTAWA – A Tri-County Drug Enforcement Narcotics Team buy/bust operation has two LaSalle County men facing Class X Felony charges for cocaine. On Monday afternoon Tri-Dent along with the Ottawa Police Department made arrests in the 3000 block of Fairfield Lane in Ottawa. Taken into custody ...Read more
KANKAKEE, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois man who spent nearly two decades in prison for a killing he claims was self-defense will not be retried as ordered by an appellate court after problems arose with evidence in the case, Kankakee County prosecutors announced Monday. An Illinois appellate court ...Read more
DWIGHT – A Dwight High School teacher was charged with Criminal Sexual Assault by an Authority Figure on Friday after an ongoing investigation. According to the Livingston County Sheriff Tony Childress 34-year-old Kathryn A. Patten was taken into custody and posted 10% of her $25,000 bond ...Read more
TONICA – The Tonica Fire Department took delivery of their brand new rescue truck on Monday. The 2019 Ford F550 Rescue truck was acquired after a number of fundraisers. The Tonica Volunteer Fire Department & Ambulance Service is a non-tax, non-for-profit organization, and they ...Read more
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A 30-year-old Illinois man is charged with assault after his new wife died after falling from the seventh floor of a parking garage near Busch Stadium. Bradley Jenkins, of Taylorville, Illinois, was charged Monday with third-degree domestic assault, a felony, in the death of ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge in central Illinois will continue vetting would-be jurors at the death penalty trial of a former University of Illinois student charged with killing a visiting Chinese scholar. Tuesday will be the second day of a process to pick a jury to hear evidence against ...Read more
LASALLE – The U.S Environmental Protection Agency made changes to soil clean up in LaSalle from the Matthiessen and Hegeler Zinc Company. A public meeting was held Monday at LaSalle-Peru High School Auditorium by project manager Damaree Collier to discuss changes to residential soil cleanup ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s police chief is decrying a “despicable level of violence” during a weekend in which 52 people in the city were shot, eight of them fatally, and two people were stabbed to death. Superintendent Eddie Johnson said police believe most of the shootings ...Read more
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