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  AURORA – An Aurora man was arrested Sunday after allegedly shooting his neighbor in the leg over inappropriate comments. Police say Abelardo Ramos, 26, of Aurora confronted his Neighbor, Christian Aguilera, 23 of Rolling Meadows, after Aguilera made an inappropriate remark towards

PERU – Mayor Scott Harl announced that Peru would no longer be working towards the shared police service with LaSalle. Harl and council members expressed disappointment that the city would no longer be working toward the shared service agreement but explained that they felt it was no

MENDOTA- A gruff situation transpired in Mendota Monday as police had to butt heads with an unusual escapee – a goat.  Authorities were at first skeptical of the call, assuming it was dispatch just kidding around.  The goat was apprehended in the 300 block of 2nd Ave. without incident and

FREEPORT, Ill. (AP) — Residents in northern and western Illinois continue to deal with flooding as rivers swell from melting snow and recent rains. National Weather Service readings Monday show major flooding along the Pecatonica River at Shirland and Freeport and the Rock River in the Rockford

CHICAGO (AP) — A prison inmate serving a life sentence for murder has been granted a new trial after an appellate court determined Chicago police tortured him into implicating himself in the 1989 slayings of two men. Fifty-three-year-old James Gibson hopes the charges will be dismissed and

PRINCETON – The man who was the center of the police standoff in Princeton most of the day on Friday has not yet had a bond hearing. Princeton Police say they were called to the 600 block of North First Street early Friday for the report of a person with a weapon in a home. Inside, they say

CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois high school graduates have increasingly chosen to enroll in out-of-state colleges and universities in recent years, according to new state data. The Illinois Board of Higher Education’s figures reveal that the exodus is continuing, the Chicago Tribune

STAUNTON, Ill. (AP) — Illinois State Police say a trooper is recovering at a hospital after being wounded during a shootout with a carjacking suspect who was fatally shot. State police say the Glen Carbon Police Department in southern Illinois alerted them about an armed carjacking Saturday

WHEATON, Ill. (AP) — A suburban Chicago man has pleaded not guilty to charges in connection with a vehicle crash that killed a 17-year-old high school junior. The attorney for 51-year-old Joseph Kucharski’s  entered the pleas on his behalf Friday. The Naperville man faces nine counts of

CHICAGO (AP) — Federal prosecutors say the owner of Pennsylvania debt collection company faces charges he tried to bribe county clerks in Illinois and Florida to obtain business from their offices. Prosecutors said Friday that Penn Credit Corp. owner Donald Donagher Jr. has been indicted on six