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The Los Angeles Fire Department said that at least seven people were injured following gunfire at a Los Angeles park on Sunday.  The fire department said in a statement that paramedics took four men and three women to area hospitals after the shooting at or near a car show at Peck Park in the

PERU – The Peru Public Library has added a beer bottle collection to its historical archives. Granville resident John Shimkus donated his collection of Star Union Brewery bottles and other memorabilia spanning the Star Union Brewery’s 100-year history. A sampling of beer bottles, ice

By DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Emmett Till’s Chicago home is one of more than two dozen historically significant sites that will share $3 million in grant money from a preservation organization. The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund announced the grants on

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press A study says that a nearly 80-year-old law intended to put distressed and tax-delinquent Chicago-area properties back to productive use has done little to improve or solve racial inequities in the city’s Black and Latino neighborhoods. A report released

  DEKALB – Two people are in custody, and one person is at large after police conducted a search warrant and discovered illegal firearms and various drugs in Dekalb. According to the Dekalb Police Department, on July 14th, authorities executed a search warrant in the 800 block of

  DENVER (AP) — The 12 people who died in the Colorado theater shooting are being remembered a decade after they were killed. Dozens of people gathered to remember them in a midnight vigil in Aurora to mark the anniversary of the July 20, 2012 attack. Gunman James Homes killed 12 people

    STREATOR – Four men are charged with controlled substance and firearm possessions after search warrants were made in Streator. According to the Tri-County Drug Enforcement Narcotics Team, on Wednesday, two search warrants were conducted, one in the 600 block of Monroe Street

  WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite desperate pleas from aides, allies, members of Congress and even his family, Donald Trump refused on Jan. 6 to call off the mob attack at the Capitol. Instead the defeated president told supporters in a video address they were “very special” as he finally

  WASHINGTON (AP) — A ban on certain semi-automatic weapons is moving forward in the House. Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee have begun considering legislation to ban some assault-type weapons. If the measure passes, it would be the most far-reaching response yet to this