BRACEVILLE – One man has died and another man was arrested following a single vehicle crash Christmas Eve morning in Grundy County. According to Grundy County Coroner John W. Callahan the crash occurred around 10:30 a.m. on Illinois Route 53 near Braceville. A truck was reportedly traveling ...Read more
SILVIS, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say a northwestern Illinois police officer fired a gunshot that wounded an Iowa man following an attempted traffic stop. Police say the shooting happened Sunday night in Silvis, Illinois, just east of Moline in the Quad Cities area. Police say a 24-year-old ...Read more
URBANA, Ill. (AP) — A Wisconsin trucker has been sentenced to 2-1/2 years in prison for a slingshot and metal ball bearings to shatter a van window while driving along Interstate 74 in eastern Illinois. Fifty-three-year-old Kevin L. Casey of Janesville, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty to a felony for ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD – A grant program is now available through the Illinois Department of Natural Resources to support Asian Carp processors and product-makers to find more ways to market the invasive fish. Gov. Bruce Rauner announced that companies and individuals interested in expanding demand for ...Read more
AURORA – One man was arrested on Heroin charges in Aurora after a search warrant in Kane County. The Aurora Police Department announces that on December 12th they executed a search warrant in the 400 block of Garfield Ave. Taken into custody was 60-year-old Robert E. Merriweather who ...Read more
PERU– Jennifer Sines is the new pharmacy director at Illinois Valley Community Hospital. A 2000 graduate of Creighton University’s School of Pharmacy, Sines has worked full-time as a pharmacist at IVCH since 2003. Before then she had worked holidays and summers at the hospital as a ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner is seeking federal aid for residents and businesses in four counties recovering from a rare December tornado outbreak. Rauner said Friday he’s asked the U.S. Small Business Administration for a disaster declaration that would open up ...Read more
STREATOR – All legal work for the city of Streator will be transferred to a new law firm beginning in 2019. At this weeks council meeting city attorney Sheryl Churney announced she will be leaving the law firm she is currently at, for Klein, Thorpe and Jenkins Ltd. Churney says being a ...Read more
NAPLATE – The Tri-County Drug Enforcement Narcotics Team took a Naplate man into custody Wednesday after an investigation into cocaine sales. Around 11 a.m. they executed a search warrant in the 200 block of 18th ave. in Naplate, where they reportedly found over 17 grams of purported ...Read more
STREATOR – Chamlin and Associates Inc. will be the firm that will take on designing traffic signal improvements in downtown Streator. The project is a component of the downtown street scape project that will begin in 2019. City Engineer Jeremy Palm says street lights, and concrete work, ...Read more
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