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OTTAWA – The LaSalle County Health Department will be holding a free MMR (Measles Mumps and Rubella) vaccination mobile clinic this Friday, July 12th. This clinic made possible by grant funds will be held at the Southside Ottawa Save A Lot parking lot, 1002 1st Avenue, from 10:00am -2:00pm.

OTTAWA – An Ottawa man was arrested Tuesday night for allegedly setting his own home on fire last month. 53-year-old Salvadore Ochoa was charged with two felony counts of arson for the June 14th fire in the 1600 block of Chestnut Street that also caused damage to the neighboring residence.

CHICAGO (AP) — A transgender woman who was battling the Illinois Department of Corrections over alleged abuse while she was incarcerated has been released from prison, officials said Tuesday. Deon “Strawberry” Hampton of Chicago, who was serving a 10-year sentence for burglary, was

  OTTAWA – Volunteers at OSF HealthCare Saint Elizabeth Medical Center and Center for Health – Streator were honored for their exceptional service.  A total of 347 volunteers contributed 33,970 hours of service this past last year, an amount that equals 16 full-time employees. The

  DIXON – A woman was arrested for child endangerment after authorities say she allegedly had children sitting in an inflatable pool on the roof of her SUV to keep it from blowing off.   Dixon police say that on Tuesday afternoon they were called about a report of a woman driving

PERU – Smoke from Canadian wildfires has made its way across the Great Lakes, lingering around most of north central Illinois. You may have been wondering why skies have been looking hazy this week. Weatherology meteorologists Micheal Karow says active wildfires in western Ontario and

    PEORIA Ill. (AP) – The boyfriend of a Chinese student who was kidnapped and killed by a former University of Illinois doctoral student is telling a federal jury about the devastation of the woman’s family. Xiaolin Hou said Tuesday that Yingying Zhang’s mother cries almost

STREATOR – One motorcycle was recovered but another is still missing after a burglary in Streator Monday.  Streator Police say that they were called to the 100 block of East Grove Street for an alley facing garage that had signs of forced entry.  It was discovered that two motorcycles

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — The legal battle over whether a former University of Illinois doctoral student should live or die for the kidnapping and slaying of a Chinese scholar began with a prosecutor on Monday telling jurors that the crime was so vicious that the death penalty is warranted. “It