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CHICAGO (AP) – Federal prosecutors in Chicago say a judge was too lenient in sentencing a man to 16 years in prison for plotting to detonate a car outside a crowded bar. In a court filing made public Thursday, prosecutors ask the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to vacate the sentence

STREATOR – Streator Plan Commission will hold a public hearing on the location regulations of potential recreations cannabis sales in the city. In December, council members elected to allow cannabis businesses within the city, but its up to plan commission to make any

STREATOR – The Streator Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on the location regulations of potential recreational cannabis sales in the city. In December, council members voted to allow cannabis businesses within the city, but it is up to the commission to make any recommendations

OTTAWA – Norris Drive on US 6 west in Ottawa will be redone by this year. Dave Broviak, Studies Engineer for the Illinois Department of Transportation says the project will take place from the west side of town about a mile west of Boyce Memorial Drive all the way to the Fox River bridge

PERU – Heavy rainfall will develop into this weekend, before a winter storm watch that’s expected to create dangerous conditions. The National Weather Service already put places in north-central Illinois under a flood watch and the Federal Emergency Management Agency is encouraging

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway international airports have installed boxes where travelers can dispose of recreational marijuana before they board their flights. The cannabis amnesty boxes, as they’re called, were installed at each airport last week, just as legal

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