AMBOY – Boats and Humvees were called to rescue over 40 people in a campground in rural Lee County from rising floodwaters. Amboy Fire Chief Jeff Bryant said a call came in around 6 AM for a camper worried about the flooding from the Green River in the 900 block of Green Wing Road. ...Read more
DIXON – The first day on the job for a Lee County Sheriff’s Department K9 was a productive one, with an arrest for alleged drug possession. Nemo began his first shift on Wednesday and after a traffic stop around 11:30 AM, he detected the presence of alleged narcotics, leading to the ...Read more
WAUPACA, Wis. (AP) — Three Wisconsin men are charged after a homemade “cannon” exploded in Marion, killing an Illinois man last weekend. The three are charged in Waupaca County with homicide by negligent handling of explosives, a felony. Forty-two-year-old Kenneth Niemer of ...Read more
GENEVA, Ill. (AP) — A 25-year prison sentence has been handed a Kane County man who was holding a gun to a woman’s head when he called her children into the room. Prosecutors say Chad W. Conway told the children to come watch their mother die. The 40-year-old Conway of Roscoe was ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois gun owners will be fingerprinted and will pay more for firearm owner identification cards under legislation approved by the Illinois House. The bill passed Wednesday is designed to address what Democratic Rep. Kathleen Willis of Addison calls deficiencies in ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — The bodies turned up in some of Chicago’s most derelict places: alleys, abandoned buildings, weed-choked lots and garbage containers. The victims were mostly black women who had been strangled or suffocated. Authorities believed many were prostitutes or drug addicts or ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is activating the Illinois National Guard to respond to recent severe flooding . Pritzker is holding a Thursday morning news conference at the Illinois Emergency Management Agency in Springfield with Adjutant General Richard Neely and others ...Read more
URBANA, Ill. (AP) — The parents of a visiting University of Illinois scholar who disappeared two years ago have arrived in Illinois from China for the murder trial of the man accused of abducting and killing her. Attorney Steve Beckett told The (Champaign) News-Gazette that Ronggao Zhang and ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Restrictions on home cultivation have helped marijuana legalization win Illinois Senate approval. The Democratic-controlled Senate voted 38-17 Wednesday to allow recreational use of marijuana like 10 other states. The Illinois proposal allows those 21 and older to ...Read more
QUINCY, Ill. (AP) — A judge has sentenced a western Illinois woman to five years in prison for an October fire that killed her 8-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter. Media outlets report an Adams County judge Tuesday accepted a guilty plea from 34-year-old Marilyn K. Kramer of Quincy. The plea ...Read more
National News
