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AMBOY – Amboy Police Chief Jeffery Blake announced his retirement Friday. In a letter to the community he thanked the numerous people he has worked with over the years in the Lee County community. The Amboy High School Graduate joined the Amboy Police Department in 1992. He was appointed ...Read more

PERU – The city of Peru’s annual  “Touch A Truck” event will be this Saturday at Centennial Park. From noon to 3 p.m. get an up close, hands on experience to see all kinds of EMS vehicles like police cars, fire trucks, ambulances and even farm equipment. OSF LifeFlight is ...Read more

OGLESBY – An investigation to the cause of why a boat ruptured during an Oglesby Fire Department water rescue training begins. According to the Oglesby Fire Department, the last of two firefighters to sustain injuries in the incident Wednesday night was released from the hospital this ...Read more

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — A former University of Illinois doctoral student on trial in the killing of a visiting scholar from China bought Drano and garbage bags three days after the slaying, according to testimony Thursday. The detail came during the second day of the federal murder trial of Brendt ...Read more

OTTAWA  – State Rep. Lance Yednock, D-Ottawa, and the Illinois Housing Development Authority have announced the development of a new affordable senior housing complex, planned to be opened in 2020 in the village of Ladd in Bureau County. The project will be located south of Cleveland Street ...Read more

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – The Dana-Thomas House State Historic Site will host specialty tours of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed residence in Springfield Saturdays and Sundays in June to highlight the work of women in Illinois’ suffrage initiatives. Susan Lawrence Dana commissioned Frank Lloyd ...Read more

OGLESBY- The two Oglesby Firefighters and an EMT that were injured during a water rescue training exercise on the Vermillion River have been released from the hospital. Around 7 PM Wednesday two ambulances were called to the Oglesby boat launch next to the Ed Hand Bridge for what was described as ...Read more

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — As Federal prosecutors on Wednesday shared with jurors grisly details of how they claim a former University of Illinois doctoral student kidnapped a visiting scholar from China, then brutally beat and killed her, defense attorneys intent on sparing their client a possible ...Read more

CROWN POINT, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana teenager accusing of stabbing her mother more than 60 times has been sentenced to 45 years in prison. Seventeen-year-old Chastinea T. Reeves was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty in the February 2017 slaying of 34-year-old Jamie Garnett at their home ...Read more