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MORRIS – A Channahon man is dead after a crash on I-80 Sunday afternoon.   Authorities say 35-year-old Nathan Oliver Carrol was traveling eastbound near Morris when for unknown reasons he lost control and went down, sliding over 300 feet.  The Grundy County Coroner’s Office say he was

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi legislators have voted to raucous cheers and applause to remove a Confederate battle emblem from their state flag. Mississippi’s House and Senate took historic votes Sunday to retire the flag adopted in 1894.

SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Deparement of Public Health says 15 people in the state were reported to have died from Covid-19 on Sunday.  According to the department, that’s the fewest deaths since March 30th shortly after the pandemic was declared.  The state also says that 646 new

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say a third person died Saturday afternoon who was critically wounded in a shooting at a warehouse in central Illinois where the suspect had fatally shot two coworkers before apparently killing himself. Police believe Michael L. Collins opened fire on three

OGLESBY – Illinois Valley Community College announced they will be offering three mental health-related seminars online this summer in partnership with Kankakee Community College. The sessions will feature Mark Sanders, a licensed social worker and certified alcohol and drug counselor and

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Residents of a southwestern Illinois community want a statue of the state’s third governor removed from a public plaza, arguing that he owned slaves and used his power to protect the practice. The (Edwardsville) Intelligencer reports nearly 500 people have joined

OTTAWA – The LaSalle County Health Department announced Saturday of two new cases in the county.  The health department says a female in her teens, and a female in her 20’s have tested positive, which makes 205 total cases since the pandemic began in March.  It was announced that

OTTAWA – High winds with an early evening storm toppled trees and knocked out power for over a thousand in North Central Illinois Friday. Nearly 300 remained without power Saturday morning after the storm, which swept across the area bringing with it watches and warnings. In Troy Grove, a