EARLVILLE- A pickup struck a horse in the roadway in the pre-dawn hours Saturday in rural LaSalle County. Around 5:15 AM Earlville Fire and EMS were called to East 12th Road just south of North 40th Road where the driver of a truck reported hitting the horse with the front of their truck. ...Read more
CICERO, Ill. (AP) — Officials say a man has been critically injured after being struck in the head with a thrown bowling ball. WBBM-TV reports 28-year-old Damante Williams is in critical condition at Loyola University Medical Center, where he remained in a medically induced coma Friday. Cicero ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — A central Illinois man has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for killing a police informant to keep her from testifying in a drug case. Marquelle Palmer of Bloomington in May was found guilty of murder in the death of Melissa Woods, whose body was found in 2012 in the basement ...Read more
UTICA – The driver escaped injury but the vehicle was a total loss after a fire along I-80 Friday night. Just before 10 PM Utica and Wallace Fire Departments were called to the westbound lanes near mile marker 85 where they found a pickup fully engulfed. The pickup was towed from ...Read more
NORMAL, Ill. (AP) — Illinois State University says this year’s freshman class is its largest in 33 years. The university has 3,860 freshmen for the 2019-2020 academic year. ISU President Larry Dietz says it’s “proof that students recognize the high quality of educational, ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Schools in Illinois are receiving emergency materials to stop victim bleeding in case of serious accident or incident. The Illinois Terrorism Task Force announced Wednesday that it distributed more than 7,000 so-called Stop the Bleed kits after a recommendation from the ...Read more
MENDOTA – The Mendota Education Association took an “intent to strike” vote on Thursday. According to officials, the vote was met with a 97% approval of the membership. If a deal is not reached by October 16, the teachers will go on strike. The items that are still on the table for ...Read more
The Illinois 4-H Foundation annually recognizes 4-H volunteers for exemplary service. This year, 80 new members were inducted into the Illinois 4-H Hall of Fame during a celebration Tuesday, Aug. 13 at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield. “These volunteers fully embody what ...Read more
The Illinois Valley Community College agriculture program, in partnership with Case IH and University of Illinois Extension, will conduct a field day at the campus farm along the west side of Orlando Smith Road from 10 a.m. to noon Wednesday, Sept. 18. The field day is open to the public and ...Read more
TRIUMPH – Property owners in rural LaSalle County near Triumph have begun discovering a number of dead fish in area streams on Thursday. A few dead fish could be spotted from bridges in and around Ophir township. A neighbor of rural Mendota resident Bob Johnson asked him Thursday ...Read more
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