CHICAGO (AP) — Two Wisconsin women are accused in Chicago of drugging 10 men and robbing them of about $85,000 after they fell unconscious. Cook County prosecutors on Tuesday told a judge the woman, Tiana Trammel and Tjwana Rainer, both of Milwaukee, allegedly ran the scheme from January until ...Read more
OTTAWA – An early morning traffic stop in Ottawa led to an arrest for cocaine on Tuesday. The Ottawa Police Department say they stopped a vehicle allegedly speeding around 2:00 AM on Marquette Street. During the investigation, they discovered between 1 and 15 grams of purported cocaine. ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD – Two of the regions designated by the Illinois Department of Public Health will be facing stricter mitigation measures to help control the growing number of COVID-19 cases. Regions 7 and 8, making up Kane, DuPage, Will and Kankakee counties, will see an end Friday to indoor ...Read more
PERU – The Peru Fire Department were called to the scene of a rollover crash on Water Street Tuesday. Around 1:30 PM authorities arrived at the intersection of Pike and Water where a sedan was on its roof over the railroad tracks just feet from tumbling into the Illinois River. According to ...Read more
CHAMPAIGN – The Illinois State Police are looking for a vehicle that may have been involved in a fatal collision with a cyclist earlier this month. They say that on October 11th in Champaign County three bicyclists were traveling on the roadway when for unknown reasons two of them were ...Read more
By DON BABWIN and JOHN O’CONNOR Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago has added five states to its quarantine order amid concerns about the rising number of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations across Illinois. On Tuesday, the city announced that beginning Friday travelers from Ohio, ...Read more
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Two more men have been charged with first-degree murder in the 2017 shooting death of a Davenport man. The Scott County Attorney’s office on Tuesday charged 24-year-old Darryl Merritt of Cahokia, Illinois, and 22-year-old Dyon Thomas of East St. Louis, Illinois, in ...Read more
PRINCETON – Bureau, Marshall, and DeKalb Counties all reported new COVID-19 cases, their respective health departments report. Bureau County saw 8 more cases and Marshall County reported 2, while DeKalb saw 47. Since the start of the pandemic, the Bureau, Putnam, & Marshall County ...Read more
OTTAWA – 22 additional cases of COVID-19 were reported by the LaSalle County Health Department on Tuesday. This makes 2,212 total cases in the county with all but 645 now recovered. Throughout Illinois, 3,714 new coronavirus cases were confirmed with 41 additional deaths. Overall, 350,875 ...Read more
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A new report says damage estimates from a rare wind storm that slammed Iowa and some other parts of the Midwest in August are growing. The total is now $7.5 billion. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the Aug. 10 storm is currently the ...Read more
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