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  PERU – Peru residents will have the opportunity to explore higher education with the city’s student scholarship. On Monday, officials established the annual City of Peru Student Opportunity Scholarship with Illinois Valley Community College. Ten residents will have the opportunity

LASALLE – A bicyclist has been struck in LaSalle in what authorities are describing as a hit and run. The LaSalle County Sheriff’s Office say they were called on Sunday to Illinois Route 351 near the canal entrance south of LaSalle, where a bicyclist reported being struck. Witnesses

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The longest-serving jurist in Illinois is stepping down. Supreme Court Justice Rita Garman announced Monday that she will retire, effective July 7. A judge for 48 years, Garman had expected to seek retention to a third 10-year

Officials confirmed on Monday that samples extracted from three American tourists who died at a resort in the Bahamas under mysterious circumstances have been sent to a lab in the United States, to expedite results and help authorities understand what happened. Paul Rolle, the police commissioner

Nearly five years after his arrest, the trial has begun for the man who drove through crowds of tourists in Times Square killing one woman and injuring 22 other people.  Richard Rojas, a 31-year-old U.S. Navy veteran, was arrested in 2017 after he barreled his Honda Accord down a sidewalk along

CLARKSVILLE TN – A Hoopeston man who has been missing since fleeing a hospital transport van last Wednesday along I-39 in Woodford County has been found in Tennessee. The Clarksville Police Department say they located 47-year-old Javier Aguirre on Sunday evening. Authorities say he had

SPRINGFIELD — The State of Illinois has announced their plan to use the remaining Volkswagen settlement of $84.4 million on electric transportation and infrastructure. The revised plan will replace old diesel engines with all-electric school buses, public transit, freight trucks, and

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press OTTAWA IL – (AP) The condition ratings of thousands of dams across the U.S. remain a secret despite changes to improve the transparency of a national database. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers used to withhold condition assessments from its National

PERU – A Peru women has followed her dreams to the Professional Women’s Bowling Association tour.  Melanie (DeCarlo) McDaniel spent most of her childhood on the lanes at the Illinois Valley Super Bowl.  This year she will be full time on the PWBA tour, competing in two Illinois