PERU – A new treatment for vascular vein disease is now available at Illinois Valley Community Hospital. The wound center’s IV VeinCare will be using a minimally-invasive laser treatment in an outpatient setting according to Jill Smoode, the program director. Services now offered ...Read more
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
