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Thousands were forced to evacuate in remote mountain communities near Yosemite National Park, as one of California’s biggest wildfires this year expanded to over 14,000 acres on Sunday amid sweltering temperatures and low humidity. The Oak Fire began Friday in Mariposa County, near the

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