STREATOR – Waste Management, Streator’s trash collector, is proposing a 75-cent increase that could take effect at the start of October. City Manager Dave Plyman says Waste Management has asked the city to include a fuel surcharge due to inflated prices. City Attorney Cheryl ...Read more
MENDOTA – A car struck two homes in Mendota in a crash Thursday evening. The Mendota Police Department say the vehicle, driven by an 18-year-old Earlville woman, left the street for unknown reasons and collided with a home in the 200 block of 5th Street around 9:15 PM, shearing off a ...Read more
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre confirmed that President Joe Biden will meet with family members of WNBA star Brittney Griner and former Marine Paul Whelan on Friday, as the White House continues to push for their release from detention in Russia. Jean-Pierre said that Biden ...Read more
After days of negotiations, President Biden announced Thursday that a deal was reached to avert a national rail strike. In a statement, Mr. Biden said the entative agreement between the railroads and rail workers’ unions was “an important win for our economy and the American ...Read more
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi has quietly settled its lawsuit against State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. for allegedly minimizing its Hurricane Katrina payments to policyholders, leaving the state to compensate homeowners. The Sun Herald reports that according to the settlement, the $12 ...Read more
By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Oil titan BP has agreed to pay $2.75 million to settle a lawsuit over air pollution from its largest refinery. Environmentalists had sued over emissions from the Whiting facility on the Lake Michigan shoreline between Hammond, ...Read more
By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Boeing is stuck with more than 100 planes that it can’t deliver to Chinese airlines, so it’s going to resell some of those planes to other customers. Company officials said Thursday they have waited long enough for permission to deliver new Boeing ...Read more
GRAND RIDGE – An investigation into a number of alleged vehicle burglaries in Grand Ridge has led to an arrest. The Grand Ridge Police Department say multiple vehicle burglaries occurred in late August in the village, and that they identified 22-year-old Johnathen W. Campbell of ...Read more
PERU – The Illinois Valley Area Chamber of Commerce will be accepting nominations for the Chambers first annual 40 Under Forty honor. They are seeking nominations for those individuals who live or work in LaSalle, Bureau, or Putnam counties and are making a difference in our communities ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD – Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity announced that more than 1,200 small cities, towns, and villages across Illinois will receive $371 million as part of the second round of funding through the federal American Rescue Plan Act. ...Read more
