OGLESBY – The Oglesby Police Department has suspended their collection of unused prescription drugs and other paraphernalia, including needles until further notice. In a statement earlier this week, they indicated that it was out of precaution for the well being of officers during ...Read more
LADD – The Ladd Police Department are looking for clues as to who took it upon themselves to write in newly poured concrete at War Memorial Park on Tuesday. They said in a social media post that the damage will require four squares of concrete to be removed and replaced. Anyone with any ...Read more
By TERESA CRAWFORD, ED WHITE and DON BABWIN Associated Press DES PLAINES, Ill. (AP) — Lawyers for two Black people who were shot by suburban Chicago police say police video shows their bullet-riddled car but not the shooting and that some of what was released suggests the officer who opened ...Read more
HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) — A convicted gang member who says he beat up jailed R&B singer R. Kelly in a Chicago cell has been sentenced to life in prison for a racketeering conviction that involved two 1999 murders. A federal judge in Hammond, Indiana, sentenced 39-year-old Jeremiah Farmer on ...Read more
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Sixty people are charged in a widespread magazine telemarketing scam that authorities say netted $300 million from more than 150,000 elderly and vulnerable people nationwide. Minnesota U.S. Attorney Erica MacDonald announced the charges Wednesday. She called it the largest ...Read more
By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press MORRIS, Ill. (AP) — Conversations citing “Save the Children” have spiked on social media in recent months, and some supporters of the movement have taken to streets across the U.S. to call for an end to child trafficking. But their catchphrase was ...Read more
PONTIAC – The Livingston County Health Department confirmed 27 additional cases of COVID-19; 25 residents and 2 inmates at Pontiac Correctional Center. All of the cases, including the inmates, are recovering in isolation. Since the start of the pandemic, 729 positive cases of COVID-19 have ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD – 6,110 new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed by the Illinois Department of Public Health, the second-highest daily case count the state has seen since the start of the pandemic. 51 additional deaths were also reported throughout the state, including 1 resident of Bureau County. ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD- The Illinois High School Association announced Wednesday that boys and girls high school basketball can continue this winter, contrary to what Governor J.B. Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Public Health advised Tuesday. The IHSA Board voted to allow Boys and Girls ...Read more
PRINCETON – A female in her 70’s is the 22nd and most recent COVID-19 death in Bureau County. Bureau, Putnam, and Marshall County Administrator Hector Gomez encouraged residents to take the virus seriously and take the necessary precautions to slow the spread of COVID-19. Since the start ...Read more
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