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CINCINNATI (AP) — An Ohio man who claimed to be a child who disappeared at age 6 has pleaded guilty to aggravated identity theft and will serve a sentence of two years in prison, minus time served. Twenty-four-year-old Brian Michael Rini, of Medina, will be on probation for a year at the end of

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago man is being held without bail for beating to death his 9-month-old son because the boy wouldn’t stop crying. Joshua Juarez is charged with first-degree murder in the Saturday death of Josue Juarez. The Cook County medical examiner determined the boy’s death was

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois House Republicans argued on Wednesday that they were left out of a monthslong review of the state’s burdensome property tax system and their ideas were dismissed. But the Democratic author of the report replied that the preliminary draft is still

CHICAGO (AP) — A judge has ordered Google to turn over a year’s worth of Jussie Smollett’s emails, private messages, photographs and other information to a special prosecutor who is investigating why the state’s attorney’s office abruptly dropped the case against the

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan said Wednesday that he was unaware of an apparently unreported rape in central Illinois that is referenced in a 2012 email written to the governor’s office by a close friend and powerful lobbyist. The Chicago Democrat, who is

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago authorities say a young boy walking with an adult outside a Lincoln Park nature museum was bitten by a coyote. Fire Department spokesman Larry Merritt says the attack on the 5-year-old occurred outside the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum on Wednesday. The boy was bitten

OTTAWA – An Ottawa woman is in custody after an investigation into heroin sales. According to the Tri-County Drug Enforcement Narcotics Team, on Tuesday , 31-year-old Heather M. Vela of Ottawa was charged with unlawful delivery of purported heroin after Vela allegedly delivered heroin to

MORRISON, IL (AP) – A Whiteside County teenager has pleaded guilty to shooting to death her mother because of the mother’s opposition to the daughter’s lesbian relation. With her guilty plea in Whiteside County Circuit Court on Wednesday to second-degree murder, 17-year-old Anna

OTTAWA – State Representative Lance Yednock is hosting a Utility Bill Clinic in Ottawa to assist residents in saving money. The Citizens’ Utility Board and a Homeowner Education Class with Habitat for Humanity in Ottawa will be on the seminar board this Thursday at Trinity Lutheran Church

OTTAWA – By spring time, Ottawa residents will see around a five dollar increase in their water and sewer bills. At Tuesday night’s council meeting, Commissioner Thomas Ganiere announced that due to a million dollar deficit, the city will be increasing their rates come April 1st. On