URBANA, Ill. (AP) — A Wisconsin trucker has been sentenced to 2-1/2 years in prison for a slingshot and metal ball bearings to shatter a van window while driving along Interstate 74 in eastern Illinois. Fifty-three-year-old Kevin L. Casey of Janesville, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty to a felony for ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — If you’re hitting the road in Illinois over the holidays you’ll have to deal with thousands of people doing the same thing but you won’t have to contend with many construction crews. In a news release, the state’s Department of Transportation ...Read more
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota-based poultry producer is recalling more than 164,000 pounds of raw ground turkey products that may be contaminated with salmonella. The Jennie-O Turkey Store products have markings saying to use or freeze by Nov. 12 or 13. The recall includes plain ground turkey ...Read more
TAYLORVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Survivors of a rare December tornado that injured more than two dozen people in Taylorville say that two weeks after the storm, they are struggling but grateful for the kindness they’ve been shown in the aftermath. More than 25 people were injured in the ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD – A grant program is now available through the Illinois Department of Natural Resources to support Asian Carp processors and product-makers to find more ways to market the invasive fish. Gov. Bruce Rauner announced that companies and individuals interested in expanding demand for ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the city of Springfield to pay another $54,000 to civil rights attorneys who represented two panhandlers in a legal fight over the city’s anti-panhandling ordinances. A judge ordered the city last week to pay Chicago-based attorneys ...Read more
AURORA – One man was arrested on Heroin charges in Aurora after a search warrant in Kane County. The Aurora Police Department announces that on December 12th they executed a search warrant in the 400 block of Garfield Ave. Taken into custody was 60-year-old Robert E. Merriweather who ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — An ongoing project to digitize all of Abraham Lincoln’s papers has received a grant. Officials announced Tuesday that the Abraham Lincoln Association has given a $6,000 grant to the digitization project at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum . The ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — The largest Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever found is ready to go back on display at Chicago’s Field Museum in a new exhibition space. The skeleton named Sue (after her discoverer, Sue Hendrickson) is now in a second-floor gallery near other dinosaurs. It opened to the ...Read more
DEKALB, Ill. (AP) — A former DeKalb alderman who recently resigned from office has been charged with stealing from his employer. Former Alderman Michael Marquardt was charged Friday with forgery and theft for allegedly taking $9,500 from a local country club where he worked as a manager. The ...Read more
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