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OTTAWA – The 7th grade girls at Wallace Grade School had an impressive season with 22 straight wins, until coming up short in the state championship game on Thursday night. Wallace fell to Lincoln West -Broadwell 52-20,

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Residents and businesses impacted by severe weather and tornadoes this month in central Illinois’ Christian County may request waivers of penalties and interest on state taxes if they can’t file their returns or

  SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois lawmakers have created the nation’s toughest test for allowing testimony from jailhouse snitches at criminal trials. Inspired by reform of the state’s notorious and now-discarded system of capital punishment, it requires

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Police have worked hard to reduce the number of homicides in the city and now they’re making a move they hope will increase the number of homicides they solve. The department will add

STREATOR – A Streator man was charged Friday with filing a false report after telling officers he was robbed at gunpoint. Officials say Christopher Grimm, 31, of Streator, contacted police on Thursday at 10am, saying that he

SENECA, Ill. (AP) — Grundy County authorities are appealing to people in northwestern Indiana to help them solve a 42-year-old cold case. The body of a woman who was shot in the head was found in a

CHICAGO (AP) — The Illinois Attorney General is suing the creator of such events as all you can eat crab fests and 5K zombie races in Illinois and around the country because they turned out to be

URBANA, Ill. (AP) — A federal judge has moved the trial of a man charged in the 2017 slaying of a University of Illinois scholar from China from Urbana to Peoria. Peoria-based U.S. District Judge James Shadid

    OTTAWA – Ottawa City Council announced that the Ferracuti mansion on Columbus Street will be annexed into the city and used as a group home for unwed mothers. Jim Downey and Janis Ferracuti, widow of