LASALLE – A Streator man has been arrested in connection with a fatal hit and run last Sunday in LaSalle. The LaSalle County Sheriff’s Office say they located the suspected vehicle involved, a Cadillac Escalade, and following a brief investigation, took 26-year-old Gabriel Benitez in to ...Read more
STREATOR – Streator officials have until June to figure out if they would like to keep their existing ambulance services or take other routes. City Manager Dave Plyman gave a brief update to council members on Tuesday of the options being explored like in-house services, or ...Read more
UNDATED – Todd D. Volker has been named as the new Executive Director of Habitat for Humanity of La Salle, Bureau and Putnam Counties effective May 2, 2022. The announcement was made by the Habitat LBPC Board of Directors. Volker assumes the position following the retirement ...Read more
By DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A historically Black college in central Illinois that saw its enrollment plummet during the COVID-19 pandemic says it has been unable to recover and must close its doors after 157 years. Lincoln College in the community of Lincoln says that it will ...Read more
WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — A jury has convicted a suburban Chicago woman of involuntary manslaughter for failing to give her son the medical care he required after a heart transplant. It also found 41-year-old Jennifer Stroud of Park City, also guilty of endangering the life of a child. The Daily ...Read more
ROMEOVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say a SWAT team member fatally shot an armed man inside a suburban Chicago bank branch. Romeoville police say the suspect was shot by a Will County SWAT officer and was taken to an hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Police say the suspect had briefly ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago man who posted online to urge others to join massive crowds that were looting downtown businesses in the summer of 2020 has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison. Twenty-three-year-old James Massey learned his sentence Tuesday after pleading guilty in February ...Read more
During an interview at Financial Times’ Future of the Car conference on Tuesday, Elon Musk said he would reverse Twitter’s permanent ban of former President Donald Trump if he were to assume control of the social media company. Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, offered to purchase ...Read more
A Connecticut man was convicted Tuesday of all charges for murdering his wife. Despite alleging the crime was committed by an intruder, the defendant’s testimony was contradicted by a “Fitbit” activity tracker. Following a five-week trial, a jury in Rockville Superior Court in ...Read more
LASALLE – As part of the “Pollinator Pathways,” community project, the LaSalle and Ottawa libraries are offering free, native wildflower seed packets to create “pathways,” that will connect wild public lands, like state parks, with residential landscapes and community gardens to ...Read more
