UNDATED – The Bureau, Putnam, and Marshall County Health Department is reminding residents that the threat of coronavirus locally is low. Health Department Administrator Hector Gomez says although there is no cause yo alter daily routines at this time, there is still a ...Read more
OTTAWA – Minor injuries were reported in a single-vehicle rollover accident on I-80 in Ottawa on Thursday. According to the Illinois State Police, at 12:30 p.m. a 64-year-old Iowa man driving a semi-truck attempted to enter I- 80 from Illinois Route 71 in Ottawa, when he allegedly lost ...Read more
UTICA – The Utica Fire Department announced Thursday that Chief of Staff Ed Rogers passes away on February 27th. Rogers began serving the district in 1997, and held many roles over the years, including EMS Director and was a president of the Mutual Aid Box Alarm System – District ...Read more
CHICAGO – More than half of all state gas price averages increased in the last week, including Illinois. According to the American Automobile Association, The jumps were caused by a decrease in U.S. gasoline stocks and increases in demand. In LaSalle, Bureau and Putnam Counties, gas ...Read more
OTTAWA – The LaSalle County Government is working with multiple agencies to combat a ransomware attack on its computer network. Earlier this week, the department was made aware of malicious software designed to block access to the system until a ransom is paid. Director of the ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Public Health is taking preventative action to limit the spread of the Coronavirus. According to IDPH, while the virus is not spreading in communities in Illinois, there is evidence of community spread in several countries around the world. IDPH is ...Read more
CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill. (Daily Herald) — A suburban Chicago man charged with last year’s beating death of his 5-year-old son has asked for a judge, not a jury, to decide his fate. Andrew Freund Sr. told McHenry County Judge Robert Wilbrandt that he wants a bench trial during a hearing ...Read more
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee’s mayor says multiple people have been killed in a shooting on the Molson Coors Brewing Co. campus. Mayor Tom Barrett says the dead include the shooter. He did not give an exact number of people killed in Wednesday’s shooting. It occurred at a ...Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sixty-five years after 14-year-old Emmett Till was lynched in Mississippi, the House has approved legislation designating lynching as a hate crime under federal law. The bill, introduced by Illinois Rep. Bobby Rush and named after Till, comes 120 years after Congress ...Read more
OGLESBY – Creativity fueled Illinois Valley Community College’s cafeteria for their 15th Annual Edible Car Contest on Wednesday. In honor of National Engineering Week, local schools are invited to IVCC annually, showcasing their inventiveness through cars made of food. The edible ...Read more
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