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OTTAWA – A mental health exam is pending for a LaSalle man accused of suffocating his infant son. 23-year-old Kenneth Herbst faces first degree murder charges stemming from a March incident in the 900 block of Grant Street in LaSalle where authorities say he smothered his 2-month-old son

AURORA, Ill. (AP) — An Aurora man who made more than 27,000 crosses to commemorate victims of mass shootings across the country is retiring. According to The Beacon-News, Greg Zanis came to realize his Crosses for Losses ministry was beginning to take a personal toll on him. Zanis has set up

PONTIAC, Ill. (AP) — A judge has set a $5 million bond for a state corrections officer who’s charged in the Christmas Day shootings of his wife, adult son and another man in a small eastern Illinois community. Fifty-three-year-old Clifford W. Brewer faces six counts of first-degree

CHICAGO (AP) — The Illinois Gaming Board has moved to revoke the license of a video gambling operator for allegedly offering a $5 million “illegal inducement” to the owner of a gambling parlor chain. A spokesman for Rick Heidner has dismissed the claim, calling it a “smear

PERU – Early this afternoon, Peru Police Department responded to a business in the 5300 block of Mahoney Drive in Peru to investigate a reported attempted armed robbery and stabbing of a 50 year-old woman. The woman was transported by ambulance to Illinois Valley Community Hospital with a

SPRINGFIELD  (AP) – Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has spent at least $3 million of his own money for state expenses including staff raises and building renovations.  Experts call the practice is troubling because money spent from private funds isn’t subject to open records laws and

UNDATED – Its been three years since north central Illinois has experienced the unseasonably warm weather we’ve had these past few days. According to Weatherology Meteorologist Ray Miller, December 2016 was also a mild one, with temperatures in the upper 50s. He says high pressure

MINOOKA – 100 gallons of a highly toxic chemical leaked after a single vehicle crash Thursday morning on I-80 in Minooka. According to the Illinois State Police, just after 7 a.m. a freightliner truck traveling westbound on I-80 near Minooka, in a reported construction zone, lost control

CULLOM – The identity of a person connected in the deaths of 3 people in Livingston County has been released. According to the Livingston County Sheriff’s Office, 53-year-old Clifford W. Brewer of Cullom is charged with three counts of first degree murder for the alleged involvement

CULLOM, IL – Three people are dead after a triple homicide in Livingston County.   In the early Christmas morning hours Livingston County Sheriff’s Deputies were called to a home in the 400 block of East Jackson Street in Cullom where they discovered a deceased 51-year-old male, a