SPRING VALLEY – Spring Valley’s Fire Department is proposing to hire part time firemen. Conversations continued during Spring Valley’s Public Health and Safety meeting of the fire department’s on going issue of lacking day time volunteers and increased call volumes. ...Read more
OTTAWA – Local unemployment rates have decreased since last month. According to the Illinois Department of Employment Security, LaSalle County is seeing rates to those of December’s at 7.2 percent, over a percent decrease compared to last month. Putnam County’s rates have also ...Read more
FREEPORT, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois State Police trooper was killed Thursday when she was struck by a truck during a traffic stop, the second trooper to die that way this year. Trooper Brooke Jones-Story was killed in the crash that occurred on Route 20 near Route 75 in Freeport, state police ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police say they have arrested a suspected drug dealer who previously avoided capture after a group of people threatened to harm a police officer attempting to take the suspect into custody. Authorities say 31-year-old Robert Gates was arrested Wednesday and charged with ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — The FBI was already investigating Jussie Smollett before President Donald Trump tweeted that the agency and the Department of Justice would review the case, which the president called “an embarrassment” to the nation. Trump’s tweet on Thursday came two days ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — The race to be Chicago’s next mayor pits a longtime political insider against a former prosecutor who’s never held public office, and it comes at a time when many voters are weary of the old machine-style politics for which Chicago has long been known. In some ways ...Read more
GALESBURG, Ill. (AP) — A woman charged with trying to suffocate one of her children is facing prison time in a plea deal with prosecutors. On Thursday 32-year-old Fleurette Comes of Galesburg pleaded guilty to felony aggravated battery to a child. Knox County Assistant State’s Attorney ...Read more
OTTAWA – A site contaminated with radium in Ottawa is scheduled for cleanup later this year. City Engineer and Director of Community Development David Noble says the Environmental Protection Agency and the Illinois Emergency Management Association will clean up portions of a property ...Read more
PAW PAW – Paw Paw High School has begun to announce staff cuts. This is due to the deactivation of the high school and the move to send students to Indian Creek next year, many positions will be eliminated or have reduced hours. The Paw Paw School Board stated that they may change a job ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — A convicted murderer who is suspected of belonging to the notorious “Ripper Crew” that killed as many as 20 Chicago-area women in the 1980s is scheduled for release from prison. Media outlets report that 58-year-old Thomas Kokoraleis was sentenced to life in prison ...Read more
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