CHICAGO – The Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice recently hosted teams from the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice and the Oklahoma Office of Juvenile Affairs. The teams visited to learn about child-centered policies and best practices and protocols in juvenile justice. The Illinois ...Read more
On Monday, the Justice Department filed two charges in federal court against the suspect in Friday’s brutal attack on Pau Pelosi,, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Prosecutors charged the suspected assailant, David DePape, with attempted kidnapping and assault with intent to ...Read more
An arrest has been made in the 2017 killings of two Indiana teenage girls found dead after going for a hike on a local trail in Delphi. Superintendent of the Indiana State Police Doug Carter confirmed during a press conference on Monday that 50-year-old Richard Allen has been charged with two ...Read more
CHICAGO – The Illinois Department of Public Health reported an increase in the last week in the number of counties at an elevated level for COVID-19. IDPH Director Dr. Sameer Vohra is urging residents to get fully protected with the new bivalent booster shots and the flu vaccine before the ...Read more
OGLESBY – A Chief of the Ho Chunk nation and IVCC graduate will be speaking Wednesday at IVCC to honor Native American History Month. Illinois Valley Community College’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee will be hosting Chief Gerald Savage from Noon to 1 PM in room C316. The ...Read more
STATE SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity announced nearly $3 million will be made available in funding to support local tourism across the state. The Illinois Travel and Tourism Grant Program provides funding for promotional efforts by local ...Read more
EARLVILLE – Multiple area fire departments responded to drying bin fire in rural Earlville Sunday night. The Earlville Fire Department was called around 6:30 PM to the 4700 block of East 9th Road for the fire, with assistance from the Leland and Paw Paw Fire Departments. The bin, ...Read more
On Sunday, new Twitter owner Elon Musk tweeted and deleted a link to an article pushing an unfounded conspiracy theory about the attack on Paul Pelosi. In the since deleted tweet responding to a tweet from Hillary Clinton, Musk wrote: “There is a tiny possibility there might be more to ...Read more
Two American college students were identified Sunday as being among the 153 people killed in a stampede during Halloween festivities in Seoul, South Korea. Kennesaw State University student and Georgia native Steven Blesi, 20, was spending the semester studying abroad in the South Korean capital, ...Read more
OTTAWA – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has announced that the Illinois Waterway Visitor Center and public areas near Starved Rock Lock and Dam will be closed today through Friday for parking lot resurfacing. The visitor center, access roads, parking lots and the observation and picnic ...Read more
