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An unnamed 27-year old man from Marseilles was stabbed several times Saturday in an apartment in the 700 block of Colorado St...
Chicago sports legend Michael Jordan makes a secret court appearance in the Windy City before slipping out of town relatively...
Several dozen high-ranking Chicago-area gang members are arrested by authorities in a first-of-its-kind round-up under the st...
Attorney General Lisa Madigan is calling on cell phone manufacturers to add a "kill switch" to their smart phones. ...
Grundy County authorities say a three year old girl wandered out of her family’s home Friday, got caught up in a rope o...
The LaSalle County Circuit Clerk’s new website will be up and running on Monday. People will be able to search for cour...
A federal judge has set a June 24 deadline for anyone suing Ingram Barge Co. over flooding last month to file the case. It mu...
The Girl Scouts of Central Illinois have planned a flood relief event at Celebrations 150 next month.They’ll have a con...
The LaSalle County Nursing Home reopened with a welcome back party Wednesday, six days after county officials evacuated it be...
Pres. Barack Obama and Republicans in Congress are still trying to one-up each other over tax increases and entitlement progr...
A Marseilles man was found dead in his garage Saturday morning. The Marseilles Fire Department got a 911 call from someone wh...
Sixty-five year old Joe Ferrero was not a crime victim as many in the community speculated after his body was found Wednesday...
The city of Ottawa has a month to hire back a fired police officer or re-file the court case to try to keep him fired.LaSalle...
Area law enforcement agencies are renewing their commitment to solving the disappearance and murder of Dalton Mesarchik. When...
Kids ages 12 to 17 can serve on Ottawa’s youth peer jury.Police Sgt. Bob Anderson says sometimes kids who’ve been...
Since 2000, Ottawa’s youth peer jury has handled 1,149 cases of kids who did something wrong but weren’t sent to ...
Eighteen-year old Nathan Hawk has been charged with three counts of aggravated battery after an incident in the 100 block of ...
Ottawa Police got an emergency 911 call from the 100 block of Watson Avenue early this morning and after they got there, they...
A La Salle County man will serve 20 years in prison in exchange for pleading guilty to his role in a 2008 slaying in Aurora. ...
A six month old baby is dead after a suspected gang shooting in Chicago and now lawmakers say enough is enough. State Represe...
Former LaSalle County prosecutor Melissa Olivero has a new job with the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, DC.She&...
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a former suburban Chicago high school guidance counselor and girls basketbal...
A judge has sentenced Drew Peterson to 38 years in prison for murdering his third wife. Will County Judge Edward Burmila impo...
The attorney for Rita Crundwell has asked that dozens of state charges against the imprisoned former Dixon comptroller be dis...
Sandi Jackson has pleaded guilty to filing false federal income tax returns. The former Chicago alderman entered her plea yes...
Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. has pleaded guilty in federal court to criminal charges that he engaged in a scheme to spe...
The mother of a victim of the deadly Northern Illinois University shootings five years ago is asking lawmakers to let local p...
The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from ex-Illinois Gov. George Ryan over his corruption conviction. The justices yes...
Prison inmates at six facilities in Illinois will be sleeping in gymnasiums, because of overcrowding. Union leaders and lawma...
Governor Pat Quinn says the announcement of charges against former Congressman Jesse Jackson, Junior is "very sad."...
A Marseilles man pled not guilty Friday morning to charges of battery to an unborn child and threatening a public official. 3...
Sheriffs around Illinois are banding together in opposing President Obama's plan to ban assault weapons. The Illinois She...
Best known for their use by the U.S. military in Afghanistan, one state senator says unmanned drone aircraft could soon be ut...
An April3 trial has been set in a dispute between the village of Naplate and its fire department. The Village Board says it n...
An attorney for former Dixon comptroller Rita Crundwell is asking a judge to be lenient at her sentencing next week for the t...
A north-central Illinois city whose former comptroller embezzled almost $54 million is suing its longtime accounting firm...
State officials say an inmate at Pontiac Correctional Center assaulted and injured a prison guard. Lee Enterprises newspapers...
A teenage girl who attended presidential inauguration activities in Washington earlier this month was shot to death at a Chic...
A Marseilles man is accused of kicking and punching a pregnant woman and then threatening to kill a police officer Monday. 30...
Federal prosecutors say 32 Chicago-area residents are charged with defrauding the state unemployment system of more than $...
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LaSalle County State’s Attorney Brian Towne is now one of seven lawyers who help decide who becomes a lawyer in Illinoi...
Tracy Cusick’s family has apparently lost interest in suing fire fighter Ken Cusick over the Ottawa woman’s alleg...
Prosecutors are asking a federal judge to give the maximum 30-year sentence to a Chicago businessman convicted of supporting ...
Seven years ago, more than 1,200 property tax payers sued LaSalle County for allegedly illegally levying property taxes for o...
Veronica Clemens, the 51-year old former Sheridan Village Clerk, won’t spend any time in jail for stealing more than &#...
An Illinois state lawmaker who was a frontrunner to replace Jesse Jackson Junior in Congress says he's ending his candida...
Morris Republican State Senator Sue Rezin says more than 150 new Illinois laws take effect on January 1. One law says operato...
A few people are generating a lot of attention for their opposition to the National Defense Authorization Act. They say the a...
Officials from the University of Illinois are considering a major revision to their student code that covers cheating. Accord...
The Ottawa Crime Stoppers Board of Directors and Ottawa Police Department are asking the community to donate cash to the crim...
Gov. Pat Quinn says his office will work with the General Assembly to fashion concealed carry legislation that protects publi...
The attorney who triggered a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Illinois political patronage more than two decades ago has...
Retiring U.S. Rep. Tim Johnson says he'll work for an Illinois law firm when he leaves Congress in January and teach at I...
A Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle charged with intoxication manslaughter following a car accident that killed his teammate wa...
A consultant says the McLean County Jail in Bloomington is ahead of other jails in its approach to housing inmates with sever...
Steven M. Gallacher was sentenced to 10 years in prison for admittedly setting the fire at the Westclox building last Decembe...
A veteran Illinois state senator charged with trying to board a flight with a gun and ammunition in a carry-on bag is out on ...
Chicago police say Illinois state Sen. Donne Trotter had an unloaded weapon and ammunition in a carry-on bag when he was tryi...
A lawsuit to prevent an invasive species of fish from taking over Lake Michigan will be dismissed. A U.S District Court judge...
A 74-year-old man has died after his small airplane crashed into a bean field in Will County. Sheriff's Department spokes...
A judge has found a former Cook County commissioner guilty of a misdemeanor charge of destroying a campaign sign belonging to...
A January 10 sentencing hearing is scheduled for the woman who served as the Sheridan Village Clerk for four years. Fifty-one...
Illinois' U.S. senators have recommended four finalists to become the new U.S. attorney in the Northern District of Illin...
Chief Judge H. Chris Ryan gave the oath of office to all 29 LaSalle County Board members Monday night. He said although the s...
Supporters of licensing illegal immigrants to drive say it would make Illinois roads safer with trained motorists required to...
Illinois state Rep. La Shawn Ford is calling a federal indictment against him "ridiculous," adding in comments to t...
Charges have been dropped against a former Northern Illinois University police officer accused of sexually assaulting a stude...
The union representing an Ottawa police officer who was fired last year is asking that the city’s lawsuit in the case b...
Traffic deaths in Illinois were down nearly 63 percent over the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend compared with last year. Th...
Authorities say a bloody severed body part found along a central Illinois bike trail belonged to a bear. A walker found the m...
Authorities in Rockford say one of their biggest fights is against the Mexican drug cartel. Officials with the Drug Enforceme...
Former Dixon Comptroller Rita Crundwell has admitted to stealing millions of dollars from the town.Attorney Paul Gaziano says...
Sheriff Tom Templeton and State Attorney Brian Towne have released the names of two people arrested on charges of Subornation...
A small-town Illinois mayor says word from federal prosecutors that a former comptroller will plead guilty to stealing $5...
A DuPage County judge has ordered a mental examination for a Naperville woman accused in the stabbing death of her 7-year-old...
Jurors have ruled against the city of Chicago in a civil trial focused on whether its police adhere to a code of silence prot...
Northern Illinois University officials have named a new acting police chief. The Daily Chronicle reports (http://bit.ly/TwhEX...
The police chief at Northern Illinois University has been put on paid leave for alleged misconduct. Donald Grady was banned f...
An Ottawa man has a ten year prison sentence for some burglaries he was charged with earlier this year. Twenty-two year old C...
A guilty verdict has been returned in the second trial of an Illinois man accused of killing eight people from two states in ...
Troy Holland of Mendota will be the next judge in LaSalle County. He won with 55% of the votes. Holland has been a civil att...
Marquette Academy High School cheerleaders, Seniors Lexi Leiteritz and Pippy Pruitt, talk about their Marquette experience.
Prosecutors say a suburban Chicago woman stabbed her 7-year-old son 100 times and a 5-year-old girl about 50 times and slit b...
A Utah-based company has agreed to pay $1 million to settle allegations that it hired convicted felons to sell security s...
Former Dixon comptroller Rita Crundwell has pleaded not guilty to charges she siphoned millions of dollars in public funds in...
First-degree murder charges have been filed against a suburban Chicago woman in the death of her 8-year-old son and a 5-year-...
Investing in preschools can help kids in ways besides jumpstarting their education. Peru Police Chief Doug Bernabei talked at...
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn's administration has asked a judge in Cook County to allow the state to proceed with prison closu...
Jurors in Kankakee have found a 20-year-old man guilty of murder in the first trial in Illinois to feature live, gavel-to-gav...
Republican Troy Holland of Mendota talks about his candidacy for LaSalle County Circuit Judge
Two people who allegedly led police on a high speed chase down Interstate 80 Saturday night are charged in connection with th...
Opening statements are expected to start today in the second trial of a man accused in the 2008 deaths of eight people in Ill...
A court official says live TV coverage of a northeastern Illinois murder trial is going smoothly.Illinois Supreme Court spoke...
A Joliet man is being held in lieu of $7 million bail in connection with a gang-related shooting that left two teens dead...
The race for Illinois' eighth congressional district is turning ugly. Democrat Tammy Duckworth and Republican Congressman...
Former Dixon comptroller Rita Crundwell has made her first court appearance in the northern Illinois city to face charges she...
Lawyers who are members of the Illinois State Bar Association are recommending voters keep Tom Lytton and Daniel Schmidt on t...
Anita Kopko, the Democratic candidate for LaSalle County Circuit Judge, talks with Jay LeSeure about her personal background,...
Republican Bob Vickrey talks about his candidacy for LaSalle County Circuit Clerk.
A chase that started in Ottawa Thursday morning ended near Minooka. Ottawa police say Daniel James Bakalik of Mokena allegedl...
Chicago prosecutors who successfully convicted former Governor Rod Blagojevich and several of his confidants have received a ...
Federal immigration officials in Chicago have deported a Polish man wanted in his home country on charges of extortion, kidna...
A federal appellate court in Chicago says a woman who secretly recorded a Merrill Lynch co-worker of her husband's cursin...
Attorneys have filed a class-action lawsuit to demand new hearings for scores of imprisoned men who claim their confessions w...
A defense attorney for a man convicted in the 1957 murder of a 7-year-old Illinois girl has filed a motion asking for the con...
A federal investigation is underway looking into whether Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. used campaign funds to buy furniture a...
An attorney for a Chicago man awaiting sentencing on terrorism-related charges says his client was allowed to leave jail to v...
A judge has agreed to recommend that a convicted Springfield businessman serve his year prison sentence for corruption in fac...
One of the two candidates on the ballot for LaSalle County Circuit Clerk is Democrat Andy Skoog of Utica. He’s been a b...
A hacker snagged about 23-thousand email addresses of people looking to work in Plainfield School District 202. Authorities s...
An Illinois lawmaker accused of trespassing and criminal damage to a neighbor's property has been found not guilty of the...
An issue in an 8th Congressional District debate between Republican Congressman Joe Walsh and Democratic foe Tammy Duckworth ...
An Illinois judge is barring Gov. Pat Quinn from going forward with his plan to close two prisons, at least for now. Circuit ...
17-year old Steven M. Gallacher was found guilty of aggravated arson for setting the fire at the Westclox building. During th...
An Islamic charity director who must return to the U.S. as a condition of federal probation says he is stranded in the Middle...
Illinois prison officials promise that inmates moved from the high-security Tamms prison after it closes will continue to be ...
Students in a Northwestern University program that gained national fame for investigations that helped free wrongfully convic...
Jack McCullough, convicted last month of kidnapping and killing a Sycamore girl almost 55 years ago, has written what he call...
Illinois is getting $2.7 million to strengthen its efforts to fight waste and fraud involving unemployment claims. The gr...
Illinois Republicans say the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to hear their appeal on the state's new legislative distric...
A law enforcement official says a 25-year-old man who got into an argument with Lindsay Lohan in her New York City hotel room...
A published report says Cook County judges have sealed hundreds of files since 2000, some of them improperly or without reaso...
John Lloyd Sellers, 99, of Grand Ridge passed away Thursday evening at OSF St. Elizabeth Medical Center. Ottawa Visitation wi...
A judge will decide later this year whether the conservative Illinois Family Institute and two Chicago-area churches can help...
A Cook County judge has ruled the arrests of more than 90 Occupy Chicago protesters last October were unconstitutional. The a...
Lawyers for convicted Illinois powerbroker William Cellini have filed papers with the U.S. District Court in Chicago backing ...
Illinois Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon is seeking help creating broader experiences and opportunities for girls. Simon on Wednesday t...
A judge has sentenced a reputed Chicago-area mobster to about a year in prison in a bid-rigging scheme. U.S. District Judge H...
Illinois' attorney general and the Federal Trade Commission have agreed on a settlement with an Illinois company accused ...
A 39-year-old suburban Chicago man has been sentenced to more than 7 ½ years in prison for obtaining a deadly puffer-f...
The Illinois Supreme Court has approved cameras and other recording devices in ten more counties that encompass southern Illi...
A federal appeals court in Chicago has refused a request by imprisoned former Ill. Gov. George Ryan that all the court's ...
A second suburban Chicago man has been charged in the theft of two checks totaling more than $50,000 from President Barac...
In a videotaped interrogation, 17-year old Steven M. Gallacher said it was his idea to set the fire at the Westclox building....
A former attorney for the Illinois' Teacher Retirement System has been sentenced to two years of probation for his role i...
A never-enforced law requiring minors to notify their parents before getting an abortion is about to be reviewed by the Illin...
A half-million dollars in federal grant money means a program to combat human trafficking can continue in Cook County. Cook C...
A forensic scientist testified a girl found dead 55 years ago suffered three deep stab wounds to her chest. Forensic anthropo...
Cuts to the Division of Children and Family Services could have a big impact on abused and neglected children, local law enfo...
A former inmate at the Jacksonville Correctional Center is suing the state's Department of Corrections and a former docto...
Illinois will receive more than $1 million in federal grants for two criminal justice programs. Catholic Charities of the...
More than 50 years after a young Illinois girl was kidnapped and killed, the man accused in the crimes has gone to trial. Jac...
A federal appeals court has reinstated the wire fraud conviction of a former supervisor for the Illinois secretary of state&#...
Illinois Chief Justice Thomas Kilbride hopes to fire up high school civics lessons during the 225th birthday celebration of t...
State Senator Bill Haine says prosecutors around the state need to have the death penalty available in their arsenal of avail...
A suburban Chicago surgeon has been sentenced to 10 months in federal custody after a jury found him guilty of exaggerating t...
A male patient and his female live-in companion died in what police say was a double suicide or murder-suicide at Kindred Hos...
A spokeswoman for Gov. Pat Quinn says a southern Illinois judge's ruling that temporarily prohibits prison closures is &q...
A judge says a Seattle man charged in the 1957 kidnapping and slaying of a 7-year-old Illinois girl can't use old FBI rec...
An arbitrator says Governor Quinn needs to go back to the bargaining table before shutting down state prisons and youth deten...
Two drug busts last month involving major quantities of crystal methamphetamine have sparked concern among law enforcement of...
Two drug busts last month involving major quantities of crystal methamphetamine have sparked concern among law enforcement of...
Two drug busts last month involving major quantities of crystal methamphetamine have sparked concern among law enforcement of...
The Illinois Supreme Court says an attorney for two boys accused of sexual abuse was wrong to worry about the truth of the ch...
The judge in a dispute over Illinois workers' pay raises is telling Gov. Pat Quinn's administration to hand over unsp...
The bench trial for 17-year old Steven M. Gallacher, the older of the two boys who set the fire at the Westclox building, beg...
People convicted in Illinois of attempting to commit terrorism soon may have to serve more of any prison sentence they get. G...
Illinois officials have taken the rare step of making state law shorter and simpler. A rewrite cuts the length of the state c...
A teenager from LaSalle will go on trial later this week on charges he set a fire that destroyed part of a building that was ...
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Wheaton College against the Obama administration for requiring religious ins...
A federal judge in Delaware says creditors unhappy with Tribune Co.'s plan to exit bankruptcy protection must post a $...
The FBI says solving the killing of a college student found dead after her car broke down on an Illinois interstate in 1992 r...
A Cook County man is suing the Archdiocese of Chicago and Cardinal Francis George, alleging he was molested in the 1970s by a...
Lawyers for a man charged in the 1957 kidnapping and killing of a 7-year-old Illinois girl say he will assert an alibi defens...
Prison workers at Dwight Correctional Center say the atmosphere within the prison is very positive, but the inmates don't...
The Illinois Department of Transportation has launched the Labor Day Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over campaign. Law enforcement...
Gov. Pat Quinn has signed a new law he says will protect consumers from payday lenders. Quinn on Monday signed the law, which...
A judge says that attorneys for a man charged in the slaying of an Illinois girl more than 50 years ago must disclose their c...
Three teenage girls from Marseilles face a variety of charges after they allegedly got into three traffic crashes while ridin...
U.S. Senator Dick Durbin says a bipartisan screening committee is being formed to assist him in selecting federal judges for ...
The Kendall County Sheriff's Department says a woman's claims that she was sexually assaulted by a man impersonating ...
One way LaSalle County protects itself from financial problems is through an insurance requirement for contractors. LaSalle C...
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn is defending an Illinois State Police investigation over possible leaks of information from Tamms Cor...
The attorney for George Ryan says the former Illinois governor has qualified for work release five months before his July 201...
Illinois State Police have launched a criminal investigation at the Tamms Correctional Center after leaks to reporters about ...
A Streator was killed in a motorcycle accident on E. 22nd Road, just east of N. 25th Road inFall RiverTownship early Tuesday ...
A federal court in Chicago has denied former Illinois Gov. George Ryan's appeal seeking his release from prison.The 7th U...
Illinois officials have moved eight of the state's more volatile criminals from the supermax Tamms prison. The Associated...
LaSalle County is getting $89,000 from the state for landfill inspections and to investigate complaints about illegal dum...
A newspaper reports that before Minnesota officials announced they'd settled a lawsuit against a Chicago medical revenue ...
Illinois is making it illegal for employers to ask job-seekers to hand over passwords to their social networking accounts. Go...
A former death row inmate whose wrongful conviction was the spark that helped end the death penalty in Illinois is headed bac...
Jeffrey B. Mansberger, a 34-year old from Paw Paw, parked his car on the railroad tracks at E. 9th Road and N. 6th Road in Os...
An email from an Illinois Department of Corrections administrator ordered wardens at 10 prisons to conduct "mass shakedo...
New laws signed by Gov. Pat Quinn this weekend are aimed at protecting the elderly in Illinois by increasing oversight of car...
Two decades since her daughter was stabbed to death along an Illinois highway while headed back to college, JoAnn Zywicki has...
Karly Feddersen of Dwight and Tara Vickers of Streator were this year’s recipients of the 2012 Chad Scoles Memorial Sch...
Prosecutors say an attempted first degree murder charge is still possible for a Pontiac man accused of breaking into some res...
The fight for concealed carry isn't over in Illinois. State Representative Brandon Phelps says now is the time to give Il...
A new law is designed to protect Illinoisans from going to jail over unpaid debt. People were being jailed for contempt when ...
The tuition waiver records of Illinois state Rep. Dan Burke have been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury. The Chicago Sun-Tim...
A Champaign County judge has sentenced a former University of Illinois football player to 90 years in prison for raping a stu...
Governor Pat Quinn signed new laws yesterday that will crack down on drugs and protect court workers in Illinois. One law wil...
An Illinois lawmaker who promoted an AIDS awareness organization that attracted the interest of federal prosecutors has resig...
Fifty-five year old Ronald W. Martin’s bond has been set at $40,000. The LaSalle man is accused of aggravated batte...
Lawyers for William Cellini say the once-powerful Illinois political player should get probation for his role in a scheme to ...
Prosecutors say more than 400 horses that belong to a former city comptroller in northern Illinois accused of stealing millio...
Fifty-five year old Ronald W. Martin’s bond has been set at $40,000. The LaSalle man is accused of aggravated batte...
A nearly year-long investigation in Illinois has led to indictments against 19 people accused of stealing unemployment benefi...
Governor Pat Quinn signed a new law to close a loophole in the state's Open Meetings Act. The law requires that meeting n...
An Illinois House panel has recommended that indicted state Rep. Derrick Smith be expelled from the Legislature over bribery ...
A judge in Chicago has sentenced a political insider who became a key government witness in the corruption investigation of f...
Come January 1st, Illinois residents should no longer see unexpected third party charges on their phone bills. Attorney Gener...
A judge has agreed to delay the sentencing of a onetime powerbroker with links to former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich until ...
A federal judge has sentenced a former Illinois official to four years' probation for donating $50,000 to then-Illino...
A campaign worker for former state Sen. Rickey Hendon is among the seven people arrested on federal bribery charges.An indict...
Legislation that state leaders say helps protect crime victims is now law. Gov. Pat Quinn signed three bills Monday that beef...
A published report says Chicago pays $18 million a year for police officers on disability, including those who pursue deg...
Law enforcement authorities are selling the first of a large group of assets seized from a former city comptroller in norther...
Attorney General Lisa Madigan says a settlement with Wells Fargo & Co. includes at least $15 million in restitution to Il...
Governor Pat Quinn signs legislation to tighten a loophole that allowed close relatives to help fugitives flee without fear o...
Kane County Coroner Charles West has died from complications after liver transplant surgery. West's family says the 69-ye...
Wayne Wesley Roeder1928 – 2012Wayne Roeder, 83, of Ottawa, passed away Tuesday, July 3, 2012 at OSF St. Elizabeth Medic...
The future of Tamms prison is still questionable. Governor Quinn has vowed to shut the prison down because it's costing t...
Two county clerks from downstate Illinois are asking a judge for permission to defend Illinois' gay marriage ban. The Tho...
The Illinois Department of Human Services has announced it is "re-evaluating" the role of its Office of the Inspect...
The trial of a Seattle man accused in the 1957 slaying of a 7-year-old Illinois girl will begin in September. Jack McCullough...
Illinois state Sen. Suzi Schmidt has pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor counts of criminal damage to property and criminal tre...
The attorney for state Rep. Derrick Smith told an Illinois House committee investigating the Chicago Democrat that they seem ...
Marseilles police say a car hit a pedestrian Monday night on Nate Fleming Rd. a mile north of 11th St. The victim, found unco...
A Cook County judge has agreed to consolidate two lawsuits challenging Illinois' ban on gay marriage. Judge Moshe Jacobiu...
A Sycamore attorney has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor prostitution. The Chicago Sun-Times reports 26-year-old Reema Bajaj ent...
A former Marquette University computer technician is accused of trying to steal a dorm director's Facebook password so he...
A Chicago man has filed a lawsuit claiming an Illinois jail prevented him from taking his prescribed HIV medications for a we...
A collision between a Shetland pony and an all-terrain vehicle left the pony dead and the ATV driver facing a DUI charge. Aut...
Ottawa police say a west side Ottawa man tried to get away in a vehicle when officers were on their way to investigate a dist...
The director of the Illinois Department of Insurance says the state will take a $3.7 million share of a multi-state settl...
Police are investigating an illegal burn in the area of Superior and Pine streets in Ottawa. Someone lit some construction de...
A bipartisan panel of Illinois House lawmakers has been assembled to determine what, if any, professional discipline should b...
Speaker of the House Michael Madigan has appointed six Democratic members of a jury who'll hear the case against State Re...
A federal judge says he won't grant a new trial for a Chicago businessman convicted of aiding a terrorist group that took...
The city of Dixon has filed a lawsuit against its auditors for missing an alleged embezzlement of the small Illinois town'...
Springfield police are still trying to piece together the details of a shooting that left two people dead. Melody Lyons, an e...
A federal bankruptcy judge in Delaware is reviewing Tribune Co.'s latest proposal to emerge from Chapter 11 protection. A...
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials say the federal agency has arrested 44 people in the Chicago area over fiv...
The Illinois Supreme Court has rejected a challenge from Republicans who claimed a Democratic-drawn legislative map was uncon...
A DuPage County judge has ruled a Bloomingdale woman not guilty by reason of insanity in the November 2010 slashing death of ...
A Pakistani-born Chicago taxi driver who pleaded guilty to attempting to send money to a terrorist is scheduled for sentencin...
A judge wants to question an attorney before deciding whether the man can testify in the murder trial of former Bolingbrook p...
Convicted Illinois powerbroker William Cellini has suffered a heart attack. A family spokesman says Cellini was released yest...
A legislative panel says there's enough evidence for the Illinois House to punish state Representative Derrick Smith, who...
A legislative committee says there's enough evidence for the Illinois House to punish state Rep. Derrick Smith, who's...
A two-car crash on the Morris Blacktop northwest of Marseilles Monday claimed a life. Twenty-three year old William H. Shelto...
Mendota veterinarian Charles Lewis was fined $500 for not keeping controlled substances logs. Lewis has a mark against hi...
The U.S. government attorney who took the lead prosecuting Rod Blagojevich says he'd rather not represent politicians aft...
70-year old Darlene M. Walsh of Des Plaines, formerly of LaSalle, died Saturday, June 2. Friends may visit from 10:00am to 11...
Parents that fail to report their child missing within 24 hours could face tougher penalties and fines. Lawmakers sent "...
Authorities say the body of missing diver has been recovered in the Florida Keys. The Monroe County Sheriff's Office repo...
The Tri-County Drug Enforcement Narcotics Team arrested 26-year old Mose O. Howard III of Bellevue, Nebraska in LaSalle Frida...
An $8 million settlement has been reached in the abuse trial of pedophile priest Daniel McCormack. The Archdiocese of Chi...
Jim Darby and Patrick Bova have been a couple for 48 years and hope lawsuits filed in Cook County will let them get married b...
92 year old John Baptista Fenoglio (pronounced fen-O-glee-o) of Ottawa, formerly of Marseilles, diedTuesday, May 29, 2012 at ...
An Illinois House committee has approved early release for prison inmates. They say it will help the state avoid legal troubl...
Former LaSalle County Board member Dale Landers died Friday at age 69. He served on the board from 2000 to 2006. The South Ot...
The Illinois House has approved a proposal to allow people to audio record police officers and others in public. The 71-45 vo...
93-year old Pauline W. Lindsay of Ottawa died Tuesday, May 25. Friends may visit from 1:00pm to 3:00pm, Friday, May 25at Otta...
The Supreme Court will not hear a challenge to redistricting in Illinois despite complaints from the League of Women Voters o...
Authorities say a 9-year-old Lockport boy has died after falling down a ravine during a Cub Scout camp out in Bradley. The Co...
89-year old Zelda M. "Tootie" Dubach of Naplate died Monday. Friends may visit from 5:00pm to 7:00pm Wednesday, May...
A special prosecutor investigating the acting warden of a prison in central Illinois has recommended that no charges be filed...
A judge has scheduled the trial of Drew Peterson in the death of his third wife for late July. Will County Circuit Judge Edwa...
69-year old Joseph Vernon Gaughan died Tuesday. Friends may visit from 12:00pm to 1:00pm Friday, May 18 at Mueller Funeral Ho...
Lawmakers are looking for ways to notify people who may have had contact with prison inmates infected with an STD or HIV. The...
The acting warden at a central Illinois prison is on leave pending an investigation and a special prosecutor has been appoint...
The U.S. Senate has confirmed a new federal judge for the state of Illinois. John "Jay" Tharp will fill a judicial ...
At least eight protestors could be facing charges after refusing to leave President Obama's Chicago re-election headquart...
An exhibit dedicated to the life of a nationally known Roman Catholic anti-death penalty activist is opening in Chicago. Sist...
The acting warden of the Pontiac Correctional Center is under investigation by the Illinois State Police and has been placed ...
A judge has ordered a Roman Catholic priest who stole more than $400,000 from his former church, in part to feed a gambli...
92-year old Barbara Masset of Ottawa died Thursday. Funeral Service will be at 12:00pm Monday, May 28 at the Sheridan Cemeter...
A lesser-known figure linked to the administration of jailed Gov. Rod Blagojevich has escaped prison time. A federal judge on...
A federal court in Chicago has blocked enforcement of Illinois' eavesdropping law in cases where someone is recording a p...
36-year old Christopher Richard "Strobes" Strobel of Ottawa died Saturday. Friends may visit from 3:00pm to 7:00pm ...
Police say someone set a car on fire in the 600 block of W. Main over the weekend with something resembling a Molotov cocktai...
The Senate has confirmed John Lee as a federal judge on the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Illinois. Senator...
A woman has pleaded not guilty to charges that allege she stole more than $53 million from the Illinois community whose f...
Last-minute opposition from both attorneys and prosecutors appears to have killed a victim's rights amendment in the Illi...
James Alvarado was sentenced to 45 years behind bars, again. The 45-year old shot and killed his 35-year old wife and mother ...
The FBI in Chicago say there's no evidence there was ever a credible threat from self-described anarchists who allegedly ...
Federal prosecutors say in an indictment that a former financial officer for the small northern Illinois city of Dixon stole ...
Livingston County Sheriff Martin Meredith is being investigated for allegedly using a county-owned GPS unit to track an ex-gi...
The Supreme Court wants a lower court to look again at the latest attempt by former Ill. Gov. George Ryan to overturn his cor...
An Illinois state lawmaker accused of bribery says he intends to fight the charge. State Rep. Derrick Smith pleaded not guilt...
Preschool funding in Illinois has been cut by more than $55 million over the last several years. Now law enforcement lead...
Federal prosecutors aren't making things easy for Illinois lawmakers who are looking into bribery allegations against a H...
Authorities say passengers aboard a Delta Air Lines flight from Detroit were kept from disembarking in Chicago for about thre...
The state auditor says Illinois hands out workers' compensation payments too easily and lacks enough employees to spot fr...
A Cook County judge has ruled against a state law that requires Internet companies to collect sales taxes on all transactions...
Both chambers of the Illinois General Assembly support a constitutional amendment to protect crime victims, but the proposal ...
A federal judge has ended home imprisonment early for former Chicago alderman Edward Vrdolyak (ver-DOHL'-yak). The Chicag...
An attorney for a former suburban Chicago police officer accused of killing his third wife says the defense won't appeal ...
Illinois is stepping up criminal prosecution of unemployment fraud with the addition of two attorneys. The Illinois Departmen...
A Chicago man accused of placing a backpack he thought held a bomb near Wrigley Field has pleaded guilty. In an expected plea...
The small northern Illinois city of Dixon has fired its chief financial officer after she was arrested last week for stealing...
Gary G. Davis, 69, of Ottawa died Saturday, April 21. Memorial services will be at 7pm Wednesday, April 25 at Ottawa Funeral ...
A federal appeals court reversed a decision recognizing rehire rights for laid-off tenured teachers and a requirement that Ch...
The judge who sentenced Rod Blagojevich says there's still hope for Illinois politicians. Judge James Zagel addressed a g...
The weekend dining schedule is about to change for thousands of Illinois prison inmates. As part of an effort to cut costs, t...
The longtime financial officer of a northern Illinois city who is accused of stealing $30 million is free on a $4,500...
An Illinois House committee investigating a colleague's bribery indictment will resume work Monday. The Special Investiga...
A police dog from LaSalle County has been found dead on a northern Illinois interstate. The News-Tribune in LaSalle reported ...
A federal judge has scheduled sentencing for an admitted serial fraudster and longtime drug addict who helped convict two men...
A comptroller in northern Illinois has been arrested and charged with stealing more than $3.2 million in public funds fro...
A new law may quash Joe Navarro’s campaign for judge. After the Illinois State Board of Elections kept him off the Demo...
The LaSalle County Board and five security guards have agreed on a one-year labor contract retroactive to December 1. County ...
Keith Mackowiak was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing 87-year old Catherine and 84-ye...
Three book publishers and Apple may have to pay the price for jacking up prices for E-books when the iPad came out. Attorney ...
Prosecutors and defense attorneys have rested their case in the trial of a Seattle man charged with sexually assaulting an Il...
A federal grand jury has formally indicted Illinois state Rep. Derrick Smith on a bribery charge. Federal prosecutors say Smi...
A woman who accused a Seattle man of raping her 50 years ago in a small Illinois town claims he also let two other men rape h...
The LaSalle County Sheriff’s Department says an Oglesby man died when he shot himself along the Vermilion River Monday....
A Seattle man suspected in the sexual assault of an Illinois teenager 50 years ago will have his case decided by a judge inst...
84-year old Ruth Kalis of Ottawa died Saturday. Friends may visit from 1:00pm to 2:00pm on Friday at Ottawa Funeral Home. Fun...
Jonathan C. Hamilton, 25, of Seneca died Saturday, April 7. Friends may visit from 4pm to 8pm Wednesday, April 11 at Seals-Ca...
A special committee investigating a Chicago lawmaker accused of bribery wants to postpone hearings due to the possibility of ...
Attorneys in the trial of a Seattle man suspected in the sexual assault of an Illinois teenager 50 years ago say they're ...
Gun rights advocates score a victory when the Illinois Supreme Court allows a challenge to a Cook County assault weapons ban ...
Beachball Volleyball Tournament Champion 7th Graders: Nolan Gerding, Jordan Sauvageau, Lexi Gerlach, Dariyn Fergus, Hannah Mi...
Illinois jurors will be allowed to submit questions for witnesses in civil cases under a new rule. The Illinois Supreme Court...
To try to avoid further problems with massage businesses, the Ottawa City Council has set hours for them. They won’t be...
A judge has handed a two year sentence to a longtime friend of Rod Blagojevich who stood close to the former Illinois governo...
Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's wife has questioned her husband's 14-year sentence compared with a ten-day ter...
Fifteen teenagers from Ottawa and Marseilles were given notices to appear in court or to go before the Ottawa youth peer jury...
Ottawa police arrested a LaSalle woman Thursday in the 600 block of W. Main St. Twenty-three year old Emily A. Weakley is acc...
Have sex with a dead body and you could face criminal charges. That's if the state Senate follows the House, which voted ...
A Menard's worker is discovered dead on the job. Officials say Evaristo Alvarado was working on a forklift when he became...
The Illinois Supreme Court has approved cameras in courtrooms for five more counties. The court announced in January that it ...
A judge has sentenced Rod Blagojevich's former chief of staff to 10 days in prison for helping his old boss attempt to se...
Lawmakers considering whether an Illinois House member should be disciplined over a bribery charge want more information from...
An Ottawa man is free on bond while facing federal child pornography charges. Fifty-five year old Jay Arthur Widemann is accu...
Congressman Aaron Schock was in the room as the U.S. Supreme Court justices heard arguments over the Affordable Care Act Tues...
The Seneca Police Department is looking into a possible computer scam. A Seneca resident reported a suspicious call from a pe...
Illinois Congressman Aaron Schock will be on hand as the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments for and against the individu...
Evelyn Agatha McIntyre Bennett, 88, of Seneca, died Sunday. Friends may visit from 10:30am to 11:00am Thursday at Osborne-Nel...
Jeffrey Zahn, 50, of Ottawa died Friday, March 23. Vistitation will be from 11am to 2pm Tuesday, March 27 at Ottawa Funeral H...
James Alvarado was found guilty of First Degree Murder for the second time Friday afternoon. A jury heard closing arguments t...
Forty-five year old James Alvarado was found guilty Friday afternoon of first degree murder, meaning jurors believe he intent...
Frances Martin, 96, of Ottawa died Wednesday, March 21. Visitation will be from 11am to 1pm Saturday, March 24 at Ottawa Fune...
Georgianne Kolesar, 77, of Ottawa died Thursday, March 22. Visitation will be from 4pm to 7pm Tuesday, March 27 at Ottawa Fun...
Ottawa Radio's Jason Thompson reports closing arguments took a little over two hours Friday morning. State's Attorney...
The Illinois Tollway Inspector General is cracking down on employee theft and misconduct. Ten investigations resulted in disc...
A special committee of the Illinois House will conduct an investigation into a member who was charged with bribery. House Spe...
Georgia F. Gleason, 101,died Sunday, March 18. Friends may visit from 4:00pm to 7:00pm Friday at Seals-Campbell Funeral Home....
The lawyer for 45-year old James Alvarado says he’s ready for trial. Judge H. Chris Ryan says that’ll be Monday. ...
Loretta Stubblefield, 77, formerly of Ladd died Tuesday, March 13. There will be no services. Hurst Funeral Home in Ladd hand...
74-year old Russell B. Tate of Marseilles died Tuesday. Friends may visit from 4:00pm to 8:00pm on Friday at Seals-Campbell F...
Fern Keller, 89, of Ottawa passed away Tuesday, March 13. Private graveside services will be heldat Ottawa Avenue Cemetery fo...
A federal judge has struck down part of Illinois' campaign finance law that restricted fundraising by independent politic...
Federal authorities say an Illinois state legislator has been arrested on bribery charges. A news release from the U.S. Attor...
Clarice Keeney, 80, of Ottawa died Tuesday, March 13. Visitation will be from 1pm to 3pm at Ottawa Funeral Home with the fune...
Donna K. Osborne, 68, of Marseilles died Monday, March 12. Friends may visit from 4pm to 7pm Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at Sea...
Peggy L. Soule, 63, of Ottawa died Wednesday, March 7, 2012. Memorial services will be at 11am Saturday, March 10, 2012 at Ot...
A Mother took the witness stand and cried as she explained how her 15-year old son helped her through a tough battle with bre...
The 15-year old who helped set the fire at the Westclox building was sentenced to five years probation and 240 hours of commu...
With the death of a man nicknamed the Lipstick Killer, the man called the Starved Rock Murderer is now believed to be the lon...
Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has a federal prison identification number. The Federal Bureau of Prisons has given Blag...
Poppy Mitchell, 93, of Ottawa died Saturday, March 3. Visitation will be from 5pm to 8pm Tuesday, March 6 at Ottawa Funeral H...
The Illinois Tollway is looking for an engineering firm to review the agency's construction practices.
Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich will have $107,367 from his pension to give his wife and daughters as he heads off t...
Authorities say a Newark man shot himself in Matthiessen State Park. Fifty-three year old Dale Belinski was found dead inside...
There’s no plea deal yet for the older of the two boys accused of setting the fire at the Westclox building. An agreeme...
An Illinois House committee has approved legislation requiring registration of handguns and creating a new tax on ammunition....
The Ottawa Fire Department is investigating a Tuesday afternoon grass fire on the Illinois and Michigan Canal. It was in the ...
John Bernardoni, 91, of Ottawa died Tuesday, February 28. Visitation will be from 9am to 11am Thursday, March 1 at Ottawa Fun...
An out-of-state woman is charged with prostitution in Ottawa. Police say the police department and city officials received a ...
Leo J. Meagher Sr., 91 of Ottawa died Wednesday. Visitation will be from 12:30 to 2:00 Monday at Ottawa Funeral Home. Funeral...
A Will County judge has agreed to dismiss the parents of slain 3-year-old Riley Fox from a lawsuit alleging they failed to pa...
A former teacher's aide at a suburban Chicago day care center who was convicted in the death of a 16-month-old boy left i...
Prosecutors say gunshots were fired in Marseilles early Wednesday morning because of an argument over a girl. Twenty-two year...
Chad A. Johnson, 26, of Ottawa died Wednesday, February 22. Arrangements are pending at Gladfelter Funeral Home.
The verdict is in. Keith Mackowiak has been found guilty ontwo charges of first degree murder and two charges of murder of a ...
Ottawa Radio's Jason Thompson reports a guilty verdict in the Keith Mackowiak murder case. The 44-year old Mackowiak'...
The prosecution's closing arguments went on for more than an hour. The defense made more than two hours of closing argume...
A man from Buckeye, Arizona is charged with having more than 270 pounds of marijuana tucked away inside a motor home State Po...
After two weeks of putting on witnesses, prosecutors rested their case yesterday against 44-year old Keith Mackowiak. The def...
The state rested its case against 44-year old Keith Mackowiak this morning. Defense attorney Gerald Kielian began calling wit...
The man shot and killed in a home invasion south of Earlville Sunday morning was 22-year old Raymond Maldonado of Turlock, Ca...
A homeowner shot an intruder south of Earlville early Sunday morning. That intruder died. Another fled in a small car and got...
A homeowner shot an intruder south of Earlville early Sunday morning. That intruder died. Another fled in a small car and got...
A new bill seeks to get rid of identification cards for gun owners. Senator Sam McCann says mandatory FOID cards don't ke...
The bloody sock Keith Mackowiak was wearing after Aloysius and Catherine Twardowski were murdered had a DNA match, but it was...
A lawyer for Rod Blagojevich says he hopes to walk through the gates of whatever prison he'll report to next month withou...
At a party the night before Aloysius and Catherine Twardowski were killed, accused murderer Keith Mackowiak asked for black c...
Authorities say an elderly man shot his wife to death and then killed himself in their central Illinois home. The Putnam Coun...
The Illinois Chamber of Commerce is joining other business groups in calling for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule soon in a dis...
Thomas V. Fleming, 92, of Ottawa died Saturday, February 11. Visitation will be from 4pm to 6pm Thursday, February 16 at Otta...
Rose Mary Valdez, 65, of Ottawa died Thursday, February 9. Visitation will be from 3pm to 6pm on Sunday, February 12 at Ottaw...
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is taking another step toward cracking-down on crime. He's pushing for a gun registry, which h...
Mary K. Kennedy, 71, of Ottawa died Thursday, February 9. Visitation will be from 11am to 1pm Saturday, February 11 at Ottawa...
Illinois lawmakers are considering a change to the state constitution that would guarantee crime victims a bigger voice in wh...
Jurors today watched a video in which Keith Mackowiak, now 44, explains what happened to 84-year old Aloysius Twardowski and ...
A grandson of the victims, a police evidence collector, and a girlfriend of the accused were among those who testified as Kei...
A grandson of the victims, a police evidence collector, and a girlfriend of the accused were among those who testified as Kei...
Illinois residents don't have the right to record audio of their conversations with police, a law that some state legisla...
A new Illinois law is meant to encourage people to seek help if they or friends suffer a drug overdose. The law says people w...
Jury selection started Monday morning for Keith Mackowiak of Streator. The 44-year old is accused of killing 84-year old Aloy...
It took four and a half years, but the trial for accused murderer Keith Mackowiak is set to begin Monday. At the final pre-tr...
The Illinois Supreme Court has granted a new shot at an evidentiary hearing to a man who claimed Chicago police tortured him ...
A DeKalb man has been found guilty of first-degree murder in connection with the fatal bludgeoning of one of his acquaintance...
Authorities are investigating the death of a 71-year-old inmate at Kendall County Jail. The Beacon-News in Aurora reports tha...
The Ottawa Police Department’s youth peer jury handled 97 cases last year. Fifty-seven boys and 40 girls were ordered t...
After4 1/2years, accused murderer Keith Mackowiakwill finally go to trial. In Judge H. Chris Ryan’s courtroom Friday mo...
70 year old Jack A. Standard, Sr. of Marseilles, formerly of Ottawa, died Tuesday, January 24. Friends may visit from 5pm to ...
85 YEAR OLD Iliene M. Lewis OF Terre Haute, Indiana (formerly of Ottawa)DIED Wednesday, January 25. FRIENDS MAY VISIT FROM 1p...
84 year old Bertha M. Riebe of Utica died Wednesday. Friends may visit from 4:00pm to 7:00pm on Friday at Hurst Funeral Home....
58 year old Ellen Scerini passed away Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at Ottawa Regional Hospital and Healthcare Center. Funeral se...
Marian Sibert, 60, of Ottawa, passed away Wednesday, January 25, 2012 atOttawa Regional Hospital and Healthcare Center.Mass o...
A judge delivered a sharply worded ruling in denying a corruption retrial for longtime Illinois powerbroker William Cellini. ...
The 15-year old accused of helping set the Westclox fire pled guilty to aggravated arson. In Judge Dan Bute’s courtroom...
Michael James Loughridge, 54, of El Paso, Ill, formerly of Ottawa, died Monday, January 23, 2012. Visitation will be from 4pm...
The older of the two boys accused of setting the fire at the Westclox building got his formal charges in court Thursday morni...
The retrial for accused murderer James Alvarado has been delayed again. In court Thursday morning, Defense Attorney Louis Ber...
A grand jury has approved an aggravated arson charge against 17-year old Steven Gallacher of LaSalle in the Westclox fire cas...
State Police and a LaSalle County Sheriff’s deputy arrested an Allston, Massachusetts man Monday afternoon for allegedl...
The 15-year old Peru boy who allegedly helped set the fire at Westclox will be back in court January 24. In Judge Dan Bute&rs...
A coroner’s jury called the death of 51-year old Joseph J. Engel of Ottawa an accident. Engle died November 29 after pl...
Stops signs are being knocked down in northeast LaSalle County. The County Highway Department says vandals are doing it in t...
The 17-year old LaSalle boy charged with aggravated arson in the Westclox fire case pled not guilty Thursday. Steven M. Galla...
The 15-year old accused of aggravated arson for the fire at Westclox will be back in court in a couple weeks. In juvenile cou...
It didn’t take Peru police long to catch the two teenagers accused of aggravated arson for the fire at Westclox. The fi...
Three new laws start January 1 in Illinois. Illinois State Police now require all passengers in a vehicle to wear a seat belt...
A string of burglaries in the Sandwich and Lake Holiday areas has the LaSalle County Sheriff’s Department reaching out...
A 31-year-old man accused of crashing a stolen SUV into the yard of Caterpillar's CEO reportedly says he was looking for a jo...
A federal judge in Chicago has sentenced Tony Rezko to 71/2 years in prison for a fraud conviction but will allow him to serv...
The LaSalle County State’s Attorney’s Office and the LaSalle County Sherriff’s office have charged 74 year...
Illinois authorities investigating the deaths of a family in the small farming community of Emington say the mother shot her ...
Two women who worked at the Illinois Veterans Home in LaSalle have been cleared of criminal charges. Sixty year old Cynthia O...
All the defendants in the Darrio Hunter murder case have had their cases separated. In Judge Cynthia Raccuglia’s courtr...
Rod Blagojevich's attorneys have asked to have him placed in a drug rehab program when he starts his 14-year prison sentence....
A federal judge in Chicago has agreed to delay the start of ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's prison term. U.S. District...
WAUPUN, Wis. (AP) - The two victims of a fatal head-on collision in Fond du Lac County this weekend have been identified as a...
Rod Blagojevich's brother says the 14-year prison sentence given to the convicted former governor is "grossly unfair.&qu...
Rod Blagojevich's attorney says the former Illinois governor will appeal his convictions and the 14-year prison sentence a ju...
Some jurors from Gov. Rod Blagojevich's corruption trials agree with the stiff 14-year prison sentence handed to the former I...
Rod Blagojevich is going to prison for a long time no matter what and will be about 67 years old before he qualifies for earl...
The federal judge who sentenced Rod Blagojevich to 14 years in prison said the former Illinois governor eroded public trust i...
Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is facing a bleak countdown. In 71 days, he must say goodbye to his family and begin ser...
Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich likely won't collect a $65,000-a-year state pension, but he's expected to receive a ...
A federal judge has sentenced Rod Blagojevich to 14 years for corruption that included trying to sell or trade an appointment...
A federal judge wants prosecutors and attorneys for a convicted Illinois powerbroker to submit dates and questions for a poss...
An Ottawa man drowned last night after he jumped into the Fox River to escape from police.LaSalle County Sheriff’s depa...
Tony Rezko's defense attorney says the 10 1/2-year prison sentence the former fundraiser for ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich rece...
A Chicago man faces up 10 years in federal prison after admitting that he threatened to bomb Southern Illinois University's f...
The Archdiocese of Chicago says a settlement announced yesterday is the last of five claims to be resolved involving victims ...
The two people involved with the alleged Wal-Mart theft and high speed chase down Interstate 80 are being held on bond in the...
Friends and family of Tracy Cusick want justice. Last month, a coroner’s jury said the 2006 death of 32-year old Cusick...
21-year old Jennifer N. Taylor of Streator died in a two-vehicle crash on Illinois 18 west of Streator last night. The LaSall...
A Los Angeles, California man is accused of having seven pounds of cocaine in his Jeep Patriot as he went through LaSalle Cou...
A Leland man faces charges of offering child pornography online. Twenty-four year old Ryan Theurer was arrested Wednesday. Th...
Three men have been charged with illegally killing two dozen deer, including one Illinois officials say might have set a new ...
Friday was supposed to be the second day of a trial for two women charged with giving a nursing home resident a suppository a...
Bond has been set at $500,000 for a man who allegedly tried to kidnap a child in Marseilles Tuesday. Fifty-three year old...
A Marseilles woman says a man tried to abduct her child. Fifty-three year old Bradley D. Boaz is charged with attempted aggra...
An 18 year old senior from Minooka High School died from a heart anomaly. Grundy County Coroner John W. Callahan is investiga...
Two defendants in the Darrio Hunter murder case have filed motions to have their cases separated from the others. 30-year old...
Trial got underway Wednesday for two former LaSalle veterans home employees accused of giving a man living there a suppositor...
The retrial for accused murderer James Alvarado has been delayed until next year. In court Thursday morning, Defense Attorney...
An Ottawa man was killed Tuesday while riding his bicycle in Wallace Township. 76-year old Dr. John Harbeck, 74-year old Gary...
Three people were arrested on warrants Thursday in connection with the spray paintings in Ottawa. Police charged 18-year old ...
Lots of people thought for sure Keith Mackowiak would be tried for an elderly couple’s murder next week. But Friday, Ju...
It’s going to cost more than jail time if you get arrested in Aurora. Police Lieutenant Keith Cross says anyone who get...
Joseph Cichon has failed to convince the Illinois Supreme Court to listen to his latest claim of attorney incompetence. The f...
Two people are charged with stealing construction equipment from the new Central School site. Thirty-seven year old Brian J. ...
A Chicago businessman convicted of aiding a terrorist group that took credit for the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks is asking for...
Superintendent Cleve Threadgill says there’ve been several thefts at the new Central School site. A total of nearly &...
Brian Towne wants to keep the LaSalle County State’s Attorney’s job. He announced Friday his intention to seek re...
One of the four people charged with killing 30-year old Darrio Hunter might try to hire a private lawyer. Twenty-nine year ol...
LaSalle County Nursing Home Administrator Chris Csernus was rehired Monday night. Csernus was hired last August and his term ...
Rural LaSalle County residents are now required to pay $45 for an address sign.On Monday night, the LaSalle County Board ...
The appellate court in Ottawa says no to a new round of testing on a shoe found in a convicted murderer’s closet in 198...
Forty-three year old Keith Mackowiak’s murder trial will be held in LaSalle County. The Seneca man Thursday dropped his...
A father and daughter are out of the hospital after a shooting in the Mendota area Monday afternoon. The LaSalle County Sheri...
Two people were taken to Rockford Memorial Hospital after a shooting at a Mendota area home Monday afternoon. A 38-year old m...
A memorial service is being planned for Illinois Valley Community College women’s basketball star Shannon Washington. S...
The State has ended its foster and adoptive care services with Catholic Charities but the religious group isn’t going d...
State Police say two suitcases containing 55 pounds of marijuana were found in a vehicle stopped on Interstate 80 near Utica ...
After 20 years behind bars, Joseph Cichon has lost his doctor’s license. The Illinois Department of Financial and Profe...
A woman was found dead Friday afternoon in Otter Creek Township. LaSalle County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a call ...
A car crashed into a motel room in Cedar Point early Sunday. The LaSalle County Sheriff’s Department says nobody was st...
The parents and adult siblings of a teenage girl killed in a drunk driving crash a year ago are taking numerous people and bu...
Police in Oswego say a man shot and killed his girlfriend before killing himself. Oswego detective Rob Sherwood says officers...
Former LaSalle County Board member Stephen Carlson was assigned a new judge Tuesday morning and his case was not dismissed. ...
A southwestern Illinois man has died two months after being severely burned while allegedly trying to steal wire from an Amer...
A coroner’s jury believes 32-year old Tracy Lynn Cusick of Ottawa was murdered. Cusick drowned, according to testimony ...
Jurors in LaSalle County may be getting a mileage rate increase. At a Finance and Fees Committee meeting Wednesday morning, J...
Kenneth S. Johnson, a 52-year old Ottawa man, has been arrested for setting the recent fires on the Illinois and Michigan Can...
Ottawa Police charged 24-year old Matthew W. Trotter of Indiana with aggravated Robbery Tuesday. Trotter entered the temporar...
Three of the four people charged with the murder of 30-year old Darrio Hunter had new lawyers in court Thursday morning. The ...
Anita Kopko has announced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Circuit Judge in LaSalle County.The position will b...
The deaths of a woman and two children southeast of Grand Ridge Thursday was a murder-suicide. Three bodies were found by fir...
The fire in southeast Grand Ridge Thursday afternoon is now being called a murder-suicide. The LaSalle County Sheriff’s...
Explosives were found at a residence near Ransom Monday. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the Kane County Bomb an...
It’s been four years since two elderly people were killed in their home just outside Seneca. Monday, LaSalle County Jud...
James Alvarado’s defense lawyer, Louis Bertrand, asked for a late October date for Alvarado’s murder retrial and ...
Ottawa Police Detectives are investigating a shooting in Ottawa. A 911 call was made around 9:30am from 1100 block of Country...
Judge Karen C. Eiten was sworn in as Associate Judge of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Tuesday. Eiten’s brother-in-law...
This is the full audio interview of Judge William Balestri on his last day in the court room.
After nearly 16 years on the bench, Judge William Balestri has retired. Balestri says after that many years in traffic court ...
After nearly 16 years on the bench, Judge William Balestri has retired. Balestri says after that many years in traffic court ...
Someone’s calling people in the area claiming to be from the LaSalle County Sheriff’s Department and demanding a ...
Republican U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk praised federal prosecutors after the conviction of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich on corruption ...
The top federal prosecutor in Chicago says the verdict delivered in Rod Blagojevich's trial sends a "loud and clear mess...
Jurors who convicted former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich of most corruption charges against him say the evidence that he tri...
Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich is still talking about how hard he fought for the people of Illinois. Blagojevich arrived at his ...
Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich turned to defense attorney Sheldon Sorosky and asked "What happened?" after he...
Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich says he is disappointed and stunned after he was found guilty of 17 of 20 charges in his...
New convictions against ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich will add 300 years to the maximum prison sentence he faces. But ...
Political experts say the fact that jurors found Rod Blagojevich's guilty of nearly all corruption counts shows they didn't b...
A judge has restricted Rod Blagojevich's ability to travel after a jury convicted the impeached Illinois governor on multiple...
People in downtown Ottawa Monday afternoon took the news well that Rod Blagojevich has been convicted of 17 corruption counts...
Jurors have reached verdicts on 18 of the 20 counts against former Gov. Rod Blagojevich. The prosecution and defense agreed t...
LaSalle County Assistant State’s Attorney Troy Holland will seek the Republican nomination for LaSalle County Resident ...
Attorney Karen Eiten will be filling Honorable William Balestri’s vacancy as an Associate Judge this summer. The Suprem...
James Alvarado of Streator has changed lawyers in his murder case. Alvarado was on a trial schedule next week in Judge H. Chr...
LaSalle County Assistant State’s Attorney Troy D. Holland announced Tuesday he’s seeking the Republican nominatio...
A federal jury will begin deliberating in the trial of a Chicago man accused of helping in the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks. Pr...
Bond remains at $150,000 for a Sheridan woman accused of helping four other people charged with murder get rid of evidenc...
Defense attorneys for a Chicago businessman accused in the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks say the government's star witness lacks...
Twenty three year old Sylvia Enriquez is asking to have her bond reduced. Enriquez is charged with obstructing justice in the...
A jury has been seated in the federal terrorism trial of a Chicago businessman accused of helping plan the deadly 2008 Mumbai...
LaSalle County State’s Attorney Brian Towne says he’s been misunderstood. He knows the death penalty’s not...
A nine-year old was hurt in a hit-and-run accident in the Tonica area Tuesday afternoon. The LaSalle County Sheriff’s D...
Murder charges were approved Tuesday for four people arrested after the death of 30-year old Darrio Hunter of Ottawa last wee...
LaSalle County Sheriff’s Office along with the LaSalle County Coroner’s Office and the Federal Aviation Administr...
The fifth person wanted in connection with a murder in Ottawa a week ago was arrested over the weekend. Ottawa Police Chief B...
Ottawa Police have issued a warrant for what they believe to be the final suspect in the murder of Darrio Hunter. 30 year old...
Twenty threeyear old Sylvia Enriquez of Sheridan was charged Wednesday with obstructing justice in the investigation of the d...
Three people are charged with murder in connection with 30-year old Darrio Hunter's death in Ottawa early Monday. Police say ...
A Sheridan area man is charged with murder. Twenty-five year old Luis A. Lomeli was arrested by the Ottawa Police Department ...
Thirty year old Jamie Lomeli of Ottawa has been charged with obstructing justice in the investigation of the death of Darrio ...
A 30-year old woman is charged with obstructing justice after police spent most of Monday at her house investigating a man's ...
Authorities aren't saying much yet about what happened on Ottawa's west side early Monday, but a 30-year old Ottawa man died ...
Ottawa police are investigating a death on the west side. Two fire trucks were sent for a medical call just before 5am to Pie...
An Ottawa man was hurt badly enough to need a ride to a hospital after a vehicle ran over him at Clinton and Madison streets ...
A federal judge has signaled the trial of a Chicago businessman charged in connection with 2008 terrorist attacks in India wi...
On Thursday, the Tri County Drug Enforcement Narcotic Team arrested 18 year old Elijah C. Fields of Chicago and 32 year old A...
Chief Judge H. Chris Ryan, Jr. is announcing a swearing-in ceremony for newly appointed Circuit Judge Richard J. Lannon, Jr.T...
LaSalle County State’s Attorney, Brian Towne, says that although Gov. Pat Quinn signed a bill that abolished the death ...
An Ottawa man was arrested in downtown Chicago early Sunday morning after he allegedly parachuted off a building. The buildin...
Sheriff’s deputies who went to an accident scene in eastern LaSalle County Sunday morning arrested 64-year old Roosevel...
Marseilles police want help finding a 43-year old woman who’s been missing for several days. Susan J. Schultz is descri...
Former Streator doctor Joseph Cichon is staying behind bars. The Third District Appellate Court in Ottawa has rejected his la...
Keith Mackowiak, accused of killing two elderly Seneca residents in 2007, appeared briefly in a LaSalle County courtroom Thur...
A LaSalle County Sheriff’s deputy took 20-year old Shelby Chalus of Ottawa to the county jail after Chalus allegedly le...
A second person has been arrested in connection with a break-in that led to a shooting New Year’s Eve. The LaSalle Coun...
Two South Dartmouth, Massachusetts men are charged with having hundreds of pounds of marijuana as they drove through western ...
The Tri-County Drug Enforcement Narcotics Team arrested two people in Earlville last Friday. Trident says 30-year old Janece ...
The man found guilty of the 1983 rape and murder of 10-year-old Jeanine Nicarico of Naperville is dropping the appeal of his ...
A Seneca man charged with killing two elderly people during a home burglary almost four years ago won’t be put to death...
The attorney for a man convicted of killing a 10-year-old suburban Chicago girl in 1983 says his client's case was the first ...
Ottawa Radio didn’t find many people who liked Governor Pat Quinn’s decision Wednesday to get rid of the death pe...
Illinois is now the 16th state without the death penalty. Gov. Pat Quinn has abolished the death penalty in Illinois during a...
A federal judge in Chicago has sentenced a 47-year-old man to more than 33 years in prison for manufacturing child pornograph...
An east side Ottawa man was already jailed on another charge when he got charges of aggravated battery of a child. Ottawa pol...
There is still no trial date for the Streator man accused of murdering his wife in 2006. James Alvarado is scheduled to be in...
An Ottawa woman faces a child abuse charge after she allegedly hurt a child’s face during a birthday party last Sunday....
Appellate judges in Ottawa are being asked to change some lower court decisions in two criminal cases that go back a few deca...
Although Drew Peterson won't attend a hearing on a hearsay law affecting his upcoming murder trial, but a live television cam...
Ottawa Police has a program called the Peer Jury that is set up to pass down sentences on minors by other minors for crimes c...
Twenty six year old Zachary Barron, the man who went missing after his house halfway between Utica and Ottawa has been found....
Twenty six year old Zachary Barron, the man who went missing after his house halfway between Utica and Ottawa has been found....
Twenty six year old Zachary Barron, the man who went missing after his house halfway between Utica and Ottawa has been found....
For the last decade, the Ottawa Police Department has been running a program to help troubled minors.The Program is called th...
In 1991, Sheldon Sobol became an Illinois lawyer. In 2001, he became the Grundy County State’s Attorney. And in 2011, ...
A Spring Valley man has a nine year prison sentence because of a fatal crash that happened west of Oglesby in November 2008....
The 27-year-old Plainfield North School gym teacher accused of having sex with a student has pleaded not guilty. Ashley Blume...
Judge Eugene Daugherty has ruled that 55 year old Delores Henry who is serving 4 ½ years in prison for an April 2008 a...
Several police departments have concluded that three people are responsible for at least seven business burglaries in Ottawa ...
Prison terms were given this week to a Marseilles man and an Ottawa woman for a heroin overdose death just over two years ago...
A Triumph man who suffered a gunshot wound at a home west of Sheridan on New Years Eve is charged with residential burglary. ...
A high school teacher at Plainfield High School has resigned after she has been accused of having sex with a 16-year-old male...
Bids will be taken soon for rebuilding the intersection of U.S. 52 and LaSalle County Highway 2 west of Serena. County Highwa...
The lawyers for accused murder Keith Mackowiack have filed several motions with the court, most of which say the death penalt...
The death penalty elimination bill didn’t get State Senator Sue Rezin’s support. It still passed the Senate Tuesd...
One retired judge will replace another at the downtown Ottawa LaSalle County courthouse, for a while. The Illinois Supreme C...
Police and school district officials in Plainfield say a 27-year-old physical education teacher from Plainfield North High S...
A rural Sheridan man awoke to the sound of breaking glass and found two people entering his home Saturday morning. The man ye...
A motor home was stopped on Interstate 80 between Ottawa and Utica Sunday because the driver allegedly switched lanes inappro...
Two people claimed to have been driving a vehicle involved in a one-vehicle accident Monday morning at a T-intersection north...
A person wearing blue jeans and a tan “Carhart” type jacket was seen running from a vehicle in the 1100 block of ...
Ottawa police are investigating several burglaries and attempted burglaries that happened in the last few days. Someone tried...
A former LaSalle County Republican Party chairman thinks Sheriff Tom Templeton would make a good state senator. Bob Vickrey i...
Thirty-five year old Robert L. Phillips thinks his prison sentence is too long, but three appellate judges don’t. LaSal...
There are 8,000 pages for the lawyers defending 43-year old accused murderer Keith Mackowiak to go through. And with more doc...
The retrial for a Streator man accused of murdering his wife is off next week’s schedule.Judge H. Chris Ryan Friday agr...
The trial for a Spring Valley man accused of causing a fatal accident west of Oglesby two years ago has been delayed until Ja...
Thirty-three packages of marijuana are what a Grass Valley, California man is accused of having in the cargo area of his vehi...
An Ottawa area woman allegedly wasted no time getting back into drug dealing after she was paroled.Twenty-two year old Bailey...
Sheriff Tom Templeton won another four year term. The Republican has had a long career with the Sheriff’s Department. H...
Voters in three counties said yes to keeping judges H. Chris Ryan and Marc Bernabei.Ryan is a circuit judge in LaSalle County...
The woman who died after a traffic crash north of Seneca Sunday morning is identified by the LaSalle County Sheriff’s D...
Some law enforcement students from Illinois Valley Community College will get some training in Ottawa Sunday night. Police Ch...
An event called Luminary of Hope is being held at the Hegeler-Carus Mansion in LaSalle tonight at 6pm. Illinois Supreme Court...
A chase Saturday evening lasted 24 minutes from a spot south of Mendota through the city of Mendota and to a spot northwest o...
Ottawa fire fighters put out a leaf pile fire at Jones and Post streets late Thursday afternoon. No one around admitted knowi...
LaSalle County Judge Cynthia Raccuglia said Thursday “anybody with any brains” should have known better than to d...
Just after being sworn in Monday morning, LaSalle County’s newest judge, Michael Jansz, talked about the experiences th...
The election is about 3 weeks away and one of the items on the ballot will be for the LaSalle County Sheriff.Incumbent Tom Te...
A consultant hired by LaSalle County has found a grant for more than $15,000 to partially cover the cost of jailing illegal i...
A request to throw out a wrongful death lawsuit against the Illinois Veterans Home in LaSalle has been withdrawn. Instead, th...
Two LaSalle County men are the latest people arrested in a statewide crackdown on online child pornography trading. Twenty-se...
A young person was taken to the LaSalle County Juvenile Detention Home Wednesday afternoon for allegedly making a false bomb ...
The last day of September is the last day on the job for LaSalle County Judge James Brusatte. The 57-year old Brusatte is ret...
Next month, a new LaSalle County judge will be sworn in. Michael Jansz has been a lawyer since 1988. He’ll be an associ...
Illinois Supreme Court Justice Tom Kilbride says judge him by his overall record, not just one case. He’s on the ballot...
Terri James of Ottawa has an 11 year sentence to serve.James pled guilty to both arson and theft in August for a fire that da...
Accused murderer Keith Mackowiak has a lawyer again. Judge H. Chris Ryan has appointed Gerald Kielian, a private attorney fro...
Terri James of Ottawa has an 11 year sentence to serve.James pled guilty to both arson and theft in August for a fire that da...
LaSalle County Judge H. Chris Ryan has set a November retrial for a Streator man accused of killing his wife in 2006. James A...
Democratic LaSalle County Sheriff candidate Rodney Hampton says it’s hard to patrol a county with only four squad cars ...
Citizen Action Illinois gives Illinois Supreme Court Justice Tom Kilbride an excellent rating. Law students at the John Mars...
Tom Kilbride is to become the next Illinois Supreme Court Chief Justice. Kilbride is from the court’s Third District, w...
Delores Henry, 55 of Peru faced LaSalle County Judge H. Chris Ryan Thursday afternoon to learn her fate for her actions in an...
Ill. Supreme Court Justice Tom Kilbride has the endorsement of 101 prominent lawyers as the fall election nears. Kilbride has...
