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PRINCETON, Ill. (AP) — Absentee ballots could break a tie in a race for city council in Princeton. Robin Swift and Jerry Neumann each emerged Tuesday with 771 votes in Princeton. Swift said she wanted to concede the race to Neumann, the incumbent, and run again in the future. But the Bureau

CINCINNATI (AP) — Authorities have rejected a teenager’s claim that he is an Illinois boy who disappeared in 2011 at age 6. The FBI says DNA testing ruled out the teenager as being Timmothy Pitzen, missing from Aurora, Illinois. Police say the story of the teenager found wandering

PERU – The Peru K9 Officer now is equipped with armor thanks to a donation from a charity. On Thursday Peru Police announced that Vested Interest have delivered to Saxon his new protective vest. The vest, valued at $950.00, is embroidered with the phrase “Born to Love-Trained to

WARREN, Ill. (AP) — Hundreds of mourners gathered in a northern Illinois high school gymnasium Wednesday to remember an Illinois State Police trooper who died after she was struck during a traffic stop. With rows of police officers in dress uniforms at Warren High School, Trooper Brooke

CHICAGO (AP) — A deadline is looming for Jussie Smollett to pay more than $130,000 to Chicago for investigative costs into what city authorities say was a staged racist, anti-gay attack or risk getting slapped with a civil lawsuit. Thursday is seven days since Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s law

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — One of the nation’s largest wind energy projects is facing a new obstacle from Missouri legislation that could prevent the high-voltage power line from being strung across the property of unwilling landowners. A Missouri House panel advanced legislation

LOMBARD, Ill. (AP) — Prosecutors say a suburban Chicago woman has pleaded guilty to fatally strangling her mother last year. DuPage County prosecutors say 29-year-old Stephanie DeFalco of Lombard pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of first-degree murder in the March 20, 2018, death of

SPRINGFIELD – A bill circulating the General Assembly would set limits to the number of patients nurses can see. Some of the requirements of The Safe Patient Limit Act are that patient assignment to those in intensive care is two per nurse, one per nurse for triage patients and three per

  OGLESBY – Illinois Valley Community College’s Giving Day overflowed with generosity and slime. The annual fundraiser hosted on Wednesday featured a series of relay races for students and ended with faculty covered in slime. Director of Admissions Quentin Overock and Professor

AURORA, Ill. (AP) — Police in the Chicago suburb of Aurora say the department is sending two detectives to the Cincinnati area to investigate a missing child report that could involve an Aurora boy who disappeared in 2011. Aurora Police Sgt. Bill Rowley said Wednesday afternoon that the