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MENDOTA – Mendota Police are looking for a motorcyclist who evaded them after a pursuit Halloween night.  After 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday they received a report of three motorcycles traveling at a high rate of speed on US Route 34 near I-39.   Officers spotted the three in town and

CHICAGO (AP) — A Wisconsin man who illegally sold the handgun used to kill a Chicago police commander this year has been sentenced to 37 months in federal prison. Thursday 68-year-old Thomas Caldwell was sentenced in federal court in Madison, Wis. He had previously pleaded guilty to selling

STREATOR – Two people were arrested in Streator Wednesday morning after a Tri-County Drug Enforcement Narcotics Team Investigation. According to Tri-Dent, they along with Streator Police and Livingston County Investigators executed a search warrant at a residence located on the 1600 block

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Police in Florida say five people have been hit by a car at a school bus stop. Authorities say one child was critically injured in the Thursday morning crash in Tampa. The other four victims suffered serious injuries. Witnesses told officers that a car was driving fast when

CHICAGO (AP) — Police say a baggage handler told them he was drunk when he fell asleep in a cargo hold and flew from Kansas City to Chicago. American Airlines says the Piedmont Airlines employee was working American Flight 363 on Saturday when the Boeing 737 left Kansas City International

PRINCETON – A Princeton church will host a vigil for lives lost in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting on Friday.  Starting at noon, at the request of the congregation, Open Prairie United Church of Christ will have a half-hour time of prayer for victims and their families. Rev. Adam Webber

CHICAGO (AP) — The police chief of a suburban Chicago park district has been accused of videotaping sexual encounters with women and posting them on social media without their consent. Christian Daigre is chief of the Chicago Heights Park District police. He is charged with non-consensual

  PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — Murder charges have been filed against a second central Illinois man in connection with the deaths of a Bradley University professor and her husband. A Peoria County judge Wednesday ordered 20-year-old Matthew Roberts of Princeville held in lieu of $3 million on two

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — A suburban Chicago woman who, with her husband, is accused of confining a daughter to their basement is seeking visitation rights to their children. Katherine Swopes is currently confined to her Waukegan home with a no-contact order regarding her children. The 49-year-old

SPRING VALLEY – The new Route 89 bridge, is dedicated after Illinois Valley Veterans. The Spring Valley Boat Club held a ceremony Thursday morning with the Illinois Department of Transportation to honor veterans announcing the structures new name, the Illinois Valley Veterans Memorial