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PERU – Early this afternoon, Peru Police Department responded to a business in the 5300 block of Mahoney Drive in Peru to investigate a reported attempted armed robbery and stabbing of a 50 year-old woman. The woman was transported by ambulance to Illinois Valley Community Hospital with a

SPRINGFIELD  (AP) – Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has spent at least $3 million of his own money for state expenses including staff raises and building renovations.  Experts call the practice is troubling because money spent from private funds isn’t subject to open records laws and

UNDATED – Its been three years since north central Illinois has experienced the unseasonably warm weather we’ve had these past few days. According to Weatherology Meteorologist Ray Miller, December 2016 was also a mild one, with temperatures in the upper 50s. He says high pressure

MINOOKA – 100 gallons of a highly toxic chemical leaked after a single vehicle crash Thursday morning on I-80 in Minooka. According to the Illinois State Police, just after 7 a.m. a freightliner truck traveling westbound on I-80 near Minooka, in a reported construction zone, lost control

CULLOM – The identity of a person connected in the deaths of 3 people in Livingston County has been released. According to the Livingston County Sheriff’s Office, 53-year-old Clifford W. Brewer of Cullom is charged with three counts of first degree murder for the alleged involvement

BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) — An off-duty St. Louis-area police officer shot and wounded a Christmas Eve intruder in a neighbor’s apartment in Illinois. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that authorities say that 22-year-old Steven M. Madden of Granite City, Illinois, tried to steal a

SPRINGFIELD (AP) – A new study found no evidence to corroborate that a beaver-skin stovepipe hat, a centerpiece of Illinois’ Abraham Lincoln museum, ever actually belonged to Lincoln. A report says findings from the study include that the hat didn’t appear to be Lincoln’s

CHICAGO (AP) — The Illinois treasurer’s office has returned nearly $40,000 to the Salvation Army in Chicago. The money comes from a program the office oversees that helps return unclaimed property or cash. The Salvation Army money comes from the estate of a man who passed away in 1999. The

EUREKA, Ill. (AP) — A 9-year-old boy charged in a central Illinois fire that killed five people will be evaluated by a child trauma expert to determine if he’s fit to stand trial. The Chicago Tribune reports that the boy’s attorney, Peter Dluski, said in a recent court filing that he has

CULLOM, IL – Three people are dead after a triple homicide in Livingston County.   In the early Christmas morning hours Livingston County Sheriff’s Deputies were called to a home in the 400 block of East Jackson Street in Cullom where they discovered a deceased 51-year-old male, a