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MARSEILLES – The city of Marseilles has been awarded a boat access grant. According to Austin Taylor of North Central Illinois Council of Governments, Marseilles will be receiving $200,000 for a long-awaited boat launch. Earlier this week Governor J.B. Pritzker announced Marseilles was one

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) – A 13-year prison sentence has been handed a man accused of producing counterfeit anti-anxiety pills at his home. Federal prosecutors alleged Stephan Caamano produced 4.3 million pills in his Champaign home and distributed them through the U.S. mail. The 24-year-old

CINCINNATI (AP) — A plea agreement has been reached in the case of a 24-year-old man authorities say claimed to be a missing child. A prosecutor’s federal court filing Monday in the Brian Michael Rini case didn’t make any details public. Rini is scheduled to appear in U.S. district

PALATINE, Ill. (AP) — Transgender students in a Chicago-area school district now have unrestricted access to locker rooms that correspond with their gender identity. WLS-TV reports that the policy change takes effect Tuesday in Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211. Federal officials

  OTTAWA – Residents spoke out against a used car tax that they say were billed for the day after Christmas. During public comment at Tuesday’s city council meeting, multiple residents say there was no prior announcement to the tax they got in the mail after the holiday. According

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – An Iranian emergency official says a crash has killed all those on board a Ukrainian commercial airliner that took off from Tehran. The official made the comment on Wednesday morning after the crash. He said rescuers were trying to collect the dead. The plane went down

DALZELL – A feline rescue group that believes in humane methods for reducing feral population has taken in over 1000 local cats in the past few years. Safe House in Dalzell rescues stray cats from LaSalle and Bureau County through a trap, neuter, and release program. Not all ferrals will

UNDATED – Some farmers in LaSalle County are still out on the fields getting harvest wrapped up. As December came around, farmers locally and statewide were hoping to be done by the new year. However, this past month weather has not been in the favor of farmers, leaving most fields too

  STREATOR – The Otter Creek Wind Farm Project east of Streator is expected to be completed by the end of the month. Local residents have probably started to see some wind turbines spinning their propellers. According to Paul Copleman of Avangrid Renewables, 22 wind turbines are fully

MORRISON, Ill. (AP) — A western Illinois judge has thrown out the confession of a teenage girl accused of fatally shooting her mother. The Whiteside County judge ruled Dec. 16 that Anna Schroeder’s confession was improperly obtained and will not be allowed at her murder trial. Sauk