OGLESBY – The Compeer Financial Fund for Rural America made a $5,000 donation to provide technology upgrades for Illinois Valley Community College’s agriculture program. Compeer insurance officer Ryan Leifheit of Ottawa presented a symbolic check to IVCC President Jerry Corcoran and ...Read more
OTTAWA The jury in the trial of a former Ottawa fireman accused of drowning his wife has found him not guilty. On Friday afternoon, just before 2 p.m. jurors reached a unanimous vote to acquit 52-year-old Kenneth of first degree murder charges. Prosecutors claimed that Cusick was guilty of ...Read more
OTTAWA – Attorneys gave their finals arguments Friday morning in the trial of a former Ottawa fireman accused of drowning his wife. The prosecution claims 52-year-old Kenneth Cusick is responsible for the murder of his wife Tracy in 2006. The LaSalle County States Attorney’s say ...Read more
MCNABB – A Spring Valley man is dead after a crash on Wednesday near the community of McNabb. According to the Putnam County Death Investigator, Bob Cofoid, said that 81-year-old Henry “Hank” S. Bland was traveling north on Illinois Route 89 when for unknown reasons he entered ...Read more
LASALLE – No injuries were reported in a house fire in LaSalle Thursday night. Multiple fire departments responded to the 600 block of Edwards Avenue for a fiery blaze at around 5 p.m. According to LaSalle Fire Chief Andy Bacidore, no one was inside of the home at the time of the fire. ...Read more
OTTAWA – Defense attorneys rested their case in the trial of a former Ottawa fireman accused of drowning his wife in a toilet. An additional forensic pathologist was brought in Thursday morning to testify that there are inconsistencies to injuries found in the second autopsy of Cusick’s ...Read more
OTTAWA – Defense attorneys in the trial of a man accused of drowning his wife have called a second forensic pathologist to the stand to testify. 52-year-old Kenneth Cusick is accused of drowning his wife Tracy in a toilet in 2016. In 2017 Dr. Shaku Teas was asked to make an extensive ...Read more
OTTAWA – Cross examination of a forensic pathologist concluded the day in the trial of a former Ottawa fireman accused of murder. 52-year-old Kenneth Cusick is accused of drowning his wife Tracy in a toilet in 2006.Dr. Christopher Milroy, who reviewed both of Tracy’s autopsy reports, ...Read more
EARLVILLE- A dog was rescued after finding himself in a pond Wednesday afternoon. Hope Shannon had heard her dog Rizzo yelping, and discovered he had gotten himself trapped in a nearby pond. The Earlville Fire Department was able to enter the water and rescue him in under 15 minutes. ...Read more
OTTAWA – A Forensic Pathologist testified Wednesday for the defense in the Kenneth Cusick Murder Trial in Ottawa. Dr. Christopher Milroy, who reviewed Cusick’s late wife’s toxicology and both previous autopsy reports, told jurors that caution must be taken when examining the ...Read more
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