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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed a law that eliminates driver’s license suspensions for most non-moving violations. The Democrat signed the measure last week. He says it will allow tens of thousands of motorists to have driving privileges reinstated. That means ...Read more

CHICAGO (AP) — Police say one man may have killed as many as a dozen Chicago-area girls and young woman in the late ‘70s and early 1980s, and their investigations into his actions and victims indicate how easy it was then for a serial killer to escape detection. Experts say Bruce Lindahl, who ...Read more

UNDATED  – The American Red Cross has extended its urgent call for donors of all blood types to give blood. With influenza escalating across the country and preventing some donors from giving, and winter weather threatening to cancel blood drives, the Red Cross now has a critical shortage ...Read more

OTTAWA – LaSalle County’s Naloxone Program saved 37 lives in 2019. According to the program’s annual report, nearly 62 doses of Narcan Nasal Spray were used by law enforcement in 37 overdose response incidents, less than the 100 doses in 54 incidents the year before. Zero deaths ...Read more

OTTAWA – Conservation police say the search for a missing Ottawa woman could encompass a wide area after authorities located belongings near the Starved Rock Lock and Dam. According to Conservation Police Sergeant Phil Wire, the investigation continues using sonar equipment and drag hooks ...Read more

OTTAWA – A weekend search in and around Starved Rock State Park have yielded no additional clues to the whereabouts of an Ottawa woman who has now been missing a week.  Ottawa detectives, Conservation Police, and area river rescue teams combed the areas around Utica where 45-year-old Tina ...Read more

CHICAGO (AP) – Records show that Illinois’ powerful House speaker spent nearly half a million dollars in campaign contributions on legal fees in the last three months of 2019. The Chicago Tribune reports that $275,000 was for a settlement with a former campaign worker for Democrat ...Read more

OTTAWA – Mobile home tax bills for residents in LaSalle County are due April 1st. Payment by check should be made out to the “LaSalle County Treasurer” and can be sent or delivered to the county treasurer’s office. The penalty for delinquent payment is $25 per month ...Read more

CHICAGO (AP) — Animal control officials in Chicago say DNA tests confirm a coyote recently captured in the city is the same animal that attacked a 6-year-old boy. Chicago Animal Care and Control released a statement Sunday saying that the animal had been shot in the chest with a BB gun, which ...Read more

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Don Harmon has been elected  as the next Illinois Senate president, becoming the first new leader of the Illinois General Assembly’s upper chamber in more than a decade. Harmon, an Oak Park Democrat who was elected Sunday by a 37-12 margin, will replace Sen. John ...Read more