PRINCETON – The Bureau, Putnam and Marshall County Health Department said Friday that Bureau County will remain under the warning level of orange by the state for COVID-19 infections. They were notified of sixteen new cases on Friday, fourteen of those in Bureau County. Marshall and Putnam
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MINOOKA – A man is dead after an incident that was described as a work place fatality. The Grundy County Coroner on Friday say that the Minooka Fire Department were called to a business located in the 600 block of Twin Rail Drive in Minooka around 3 PM. The man was taken to Morris Hospital
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SPRINGFIELD – Due to a backlog earlier in the week, the Illinois Department of Public Health announced 5,368 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday. The department announced that a slowdown in data processing affected the reporting of tests, although the systems are back in working order. 29
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OTTAWA – A female in her 80’s is the latest and 52nd coronavirus related death in LaSalle County. The health department reported the death on Friday, along with 48 new cases, the largest amount announced in a single day since mid August. LaSalle County has seen, in total, 1,357 COVID-19
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LAKE HOLIDAY – A man was reported missing in the early morning hours Friday at Lake Holiday, but was located safely hours later. According to Somonauk Fire Department Assistant Chief Brad Cummings, they were called by the LaSalle County Sheriff’s Office to find an adult male who was
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PERU – The identity of the possible victim of the multi-state truck driver serial killer remains a mystery, as authorities are examining bones found during the search Wednesday of a property on May Road near Peru. Convicted murderer Dellmus Colvin recalled the night around fifteen years ago
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KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — More than 250 people have been arrested since the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha. Police in the southeastern Wisconsin city provided an update Thursday. Blake, a Black man, was shot by a white police officer on Aug. 23, sparking three nights of unrest that
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The federal government has told states to prepare for a coronavirus vaccine to be ready to distribute by Nov. 1. The timeline raised concern among public health experts about an “October surprise” — a vaccine approval driven by political considerations
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CHICAGO (AP) — A northern Illinois man who was recently paroled from prison is being held without bond for allegedly stabbing to death his grandparents, with whom he was living. Cook County prosecutors say 21-year-old Romel Tyson sat quietly in a room of his grandparents’ Markham home
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PERU – Even with the ripple effect of Hurricane Laura disrupting supply, Labor Day Weekend fuel prices are expected nationwide to be at a four year low. According to AAA, the nationwide average price per gallon of gas is $2.32, twelve cents above the low of $2.20 in 2016. Locally, LaSalle
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