OGLESBY – Illinois Valley Community College alumni Bud and Sandy Matthews of Brookfield, Wis., have created a scholarship for Hall High School graduates attending IVCC. The 1976 Hall alums recently donated $10,000 to the IVCC Foundation to create the Bud and Sandy Matthews Scholarship, a ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Legislation introduced by state Rep. Lance Yednock, D-Ottawa, to protect the rights of labor members by maintaining the state’s power to regulate union agreements passed the Illinois House on Wednesday with bipartisan support. “This legislation preserves the state’s ...Read more
CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) — Geologists at Southern Illinois University are asking Illinois elementary and high school students to name its three baby dinosaurs. The university has three protoceratops hatchling casts in a glass case along with an adult that SIU students named Nanu in 2017. The ...Read more
CINCINNATI (AP) — An FBI affidavit says an Ohio man who authorities say falsely claimed to be an Illinois boy missing for eight years has made similar claims twice before. The affidavit filed in federal court Friday says 23-year-old Brian Rini repeatedly told investigators he was Timmothy ...Read more
AURORA – An Aurora man was arrested after witnesses allegedly saw him digging up a grave in the West Aurora Cemetery. According to the Aurora Police Department, they were called to the West Aurora Cemetery after workers reported seeing a man digging up an old grave in the cemetery located ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD – A bill circulating in the General Assembly would set limits to the number of patients nurses can see. Some of the requirements of The Safe Patient Limit Act are that patient assignment to those in intensive care is two per nurse, one per nurse for triage patients and three per ...Read more
OTTAWA – April is Sexually Transmitted Disease Awareness Month. According to the Center for Disease Control, 2.3 million new cases of nationally notifiable STDs chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis were reported by Americans in 2017. It was yet another record-breaking year for STDs in the ...Read more
OTTAWA – The Ottawa YMCA will be purchasing property on the Illinois River front. The city of Ottawa accepted the sole bidder of the former Central School Track for only a dollar. Director of Economic Development Reed Wilson, says the city is supporting the YMCA’s plans to construct a ...Read more
PRINCETON, Ill. (AP) — Absentee ballots could break a tie in a race for city council in Princeton. Robin Swift and Jerry Neumann each emerged Tuesday with 771 votes in Princeton. Swift said she wanted to concede the race to Neumann, the incumbent, and run again in the future. But the Bureau ...Read more
PERU – The Peru K9 Officer now is equipped with armor thanks to a donation from a charity. On Thursday Peru Police announced that Vested Interest have delivered to Saxon his new protective vest. The vest, valued at $950.00, is embroidered with the phrase “Born to Love-Trained to ...Read more
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