OTTAWA – A Michigan man is being held on one million dollars bond after a Tuesday night incident where he allegedly opened fire with a pistol on Oglesby Police Officers on the campus of Illinois Valley Community College. In court on Thursday 35-year-old Peter Douglas Bergsma of Grand ...Read more
PERU – An Oglesby man is accused of placing a spy camera in an employee bathroom at a Peru business. On Wednesday Peru Police arrested 21-year-old Drew M. Meredith of Oglesby and charged him with a class 4 felony charge of Unauthorized Videotaping & Live Video Transmission. Meredith ...Read more
STREATOR – The Streator Police Department say that someone made off with a large amount of scrap steel from a business in Streator. They were called Thursday to the 900 block of North Shabbona Street for a report of over $10,000 worth of scrap steel taken from the Owens Glass property. The ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Elementary School Association has announced that winter sports activities will remain paused. IN a letter sent to districts statewide, they say that due to Illinois remaining in Tier 3 mitigations, no practices or games can be held. Practices for some sports were ...Read more
PONTIAC – Twenty-three more residents of Livingston County have tested positive for COVID-1. The Livingston County Health Department on Wednesday said that 3,106 residents have tested positive for the novel coronavirus since the start of the pandemic. Currently, 172 cases remain active and 56 ...Read more
PRINCETON – Two more deaths have been attributed to COVID-19 related complications in Bureau County. On Wednesday the Bureau, Putnam & Marshall County Health Department reported that a woman in her 80’s and a woman in her 60’s brought the total number of deaths up to 75 ...Read more
OTTAWA – 6 new COVID-19 related deaths were confirmed in LaSalle County, now totaling 233 since the pandemic began. The individuals were a female in her 70’s, a male and female in their 80’s, and a male and two females in their 90’s. The LaSalle County Health Department reported 103 ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Public Health confirmed 178 new COVID-19 related deaths, the highest daily death count the state has seen in nearly two weeks. In addition to the deaths, which included individuals in Bureau and LaSalle County, the IDPH also reported 7,374 new ...Read more
OGLESBY – Oglesby police officers exchanged gunfire with a suspect Tuesday after an investigation of an RV that was parked at Illinois Valley Community College around 8 PM. The LaSalle County Sheriff’s Office say that 35-year-old Peter Douglas Bergsma, possibly from Michigan, allegedly ...Read more
OGLESBY – The LaSalle County Sheriff’s Office say they will be holding a press conference Wednesday morning to release more information regarding a shooting in Oglesby Tuesday night. The incident, which reportedly began near North Orlando Smith Street, had an as of yet unnamed suspect ...Read more
