OTTAWA – Multiple area departments were called to a structure fire in Ottawa Friday night. Around 9:30 PM crews arrived in the 1600 block of Chestnut Street and activated a MABAS Division 25 alarm to summon other surrounding departments to the scene. Supporting crews battling the ...Read more
GENOA – A body was found in Genoa Friday morning. According to Dekalb County Sheriffs, just before 9 a.m. they were called west of Ellwood Green subdivision for a reported body discovered. Authorities say upon arrival they located the body of a decreased person in a farm field. ...Read more
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — Jurors in the trial of a former University of Illinois doctoral student accused of killing a visiting scholar from China are watching video of the suspect explaining to an FBI agent that the woman looked “panicky” when he spotted her and offered her a ride. Meida ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD – Illinoisans are buckling up for a slew of motor fuel taxes come July 1st, but it’s a small win for a large industry. Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s horizontal infrastructure plan did’t come as a surprise to the Transportation for Illinois Coalition. In fact, the ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — An infant boy who was cut from a Chicago woman’s womb with a butcher knife died Friday at a hospital where he had been in grave condition since the April attack that killed his mother, family spokeswomen said. Family spokeswoman Cecilia Garcia confirmed a family statement ...Read more
OGLESBY – Illinois Valley Community College’s agriculture, industrial maintenance, welding and nursing programs will receive an infusion of new instructional talent this fall following Thursday’s board meeting. Trustees approved the hiring of Kathryn Lillie, a recent graduate of the ...Read more
MACOMB, Ill. (AP) — The federal government is giving Western Illinois University $375,000 to keep researching the state’s bobcat population. The school says in a news release the two-year grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will allow WIU Biological Sciences Associate Professor ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Pope Francis on Wednesday deemed the first known black Roman Catholic priest in the United States to be “venerable,” positioning the former slave for possible sainthood. The pontiff’s designation of the Rev. Augustine Tolton as venerable, meaning the ...Read more
CINCINNATI (AP) — A pretrial hearing has been canceled for the 24-year-old man charged with impersonating a long-missing child. A court notice was posted Thursday morning, a few hours ahead of what had been scheduled as the final pretrial hearing for Brian Michael Rini of Medina , Ohio. U.S. ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — A popular attraction at Chicago’s tallest building was closed temporarily after minor cracking was found in the protective coating of its glass floor. The cracks were in the coating of glass enclosures at Willis Tower that are known collectively as The Ledge. Visitors can ...Read more
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