LASALLE – The Illinois State Police will be conducting roadside safety checks during July in LaSalle County. District 17 Commander, Jason LoCoco says officers working the detail will be watchful for drivers who are operating vehicles in an unsafe manner, driving with a suspended or ...Read more
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Latest on the investigation into a Utah college student’s disappearance. Authorities are filing murder and kidnapping charges in the death of a Utah college student who disappeared 11 days ago. Salt Lake City police chief Mike Brown said 31-year-old Ayoola A. ...Read more
Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White’s legislative initiative strengthening the law on texting while driving takes effect July 1. The law cracks down on texting while driving by classifying first-time offenses as moving violations. Under the previous law, second and subsequent texting while ...Read more
The winningest boys’ basketball coach in Illinois history has died. Gene Pingatore gained national attention when he appeared in the 1994 documentary “Hoop Dreams.” He coached at St. Joseph High School in Westchester, a Chicago suburb. At the time of his death, he was preparing ...Read more
OTTAWA – Beginning July, the Environmental Protection Agency will start cleanup activities on an area of the Ottawa Radiation Superfund site. The EPA says workers will be removing contaminated soil from the NPL-8 Frontage Property to reduce the risk of exposure to people who have access to ...Read more
OGLESBY – An Oglesby woman was arrested following an investigation into heroin sales. According to the Tri-County Drug Enforcement Narcotics Team, just after after 9 a.m. Thursday, 28-year-old Jenna M. Savage was arrested on a LaSalle County warrant for two counts of unlawful delivery of a ...Read more
STREATOR – A Chicago man was arrested following an investigation into reported cocaine sales in Streator, Tuesday. According to the Tri-County Drug Enforcement Narcotics Team, just before 5 p.m. 23-year-old Davon A. Edwards was arrested on a LaSalle County warrant for three counts of ...Read more
LEWISTOWN, Ill. (AP) — A man suspected of fatally shooting an Illinois sheriff’s deputy has been charged with first-degree murder and ordered held on $5 million bond. Forty-two-year-old Nathan Woodring of Avon appeared Thursday in Fulton County Circuit Court. He’s accused of ...Read more
PICNEYVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A southern Illinois man convicted of an attack in which he stuck his fingers in another man’s eyes and blinded him has been sentenced to 35 years in prison by a judge who told him he deserved more time behind bars. Media outlets report that the sentence imposed ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s press secretary says the governor received a warning for speeding during a boating trip on Geneva Lake in Wisconsin. Pritzker spokeswoman Jordan Abudayyeh tells the Chicago Tribune in an email that it was still light out as Pritzker was ...Read more
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