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OGLESBY – The Illinois Valley Community College Foundation recently re-elected Dr. Susan Schmitt of Streator as president and Dr. Kim Novak of Grand Ridge as vice president. Both veterinarians started their college careers at IVCC. In addition, Donna Swiskoski of Peru was re-elected

STREATOR – A Streator man is in critical condition after being run over by a train. The LaSalle County Sherriff’s Office identied the victim as 48-year-old Larry L. Rizzo. The incident occured Monday, near Frech Street on tracks owned by Norfolk Southern Railroad. The train engineer told

PERU – A shared location for Lasalle, Peru and Oglesby police was decided on in a  committee meeting, Tuesday. The tri-cities plan to build a station where all 3 police departments will work out of.  Four locations were once proposed as possible stations and today the committee made a

STREATOR – An apparent theft of a large amount of cash was reported to the Streator Police Department Monday from St. Michael’s church.   A complaint was taken that sometime between Sunday and Monday money was taken by an unknown suspect or suspects. The incident remains under

OTTAWA – Workers doing construction around the Ottawa I&M Canal rewatering project  struck a large gas main Tuesday morning forcing an evacuation of a motel and several area businesses.    Around 8:00 a.m. the large main was ruptured near the Canal and LaSalle Street and emergency

LAKE HOLIDAY – A woman was taken via helicopter from the scene of a crash Saturday evening near Lake Holiday. According to the LaSalle County Sheriff’s Office at 10:20 p.m. they were called to rural LaSalle County South East of Lake Holiday for a single vehicle accident. The driver of

AMBOY – An early morning single vehicle accident has sent five patients to the hospital in Lee County.    According to the Amboy Fire Department, they, along with Sublette Fire and EMS were called to US RT 30 and Pine Hill Road for vehicle in a corn field.   Dixon Fire and EMS arrived at

BYRON – An early Saturday morning head on collision near Byron has claimed the life of a member of the Ogle County Sheriff’s Office.   According to the Illinois State Police the crash occurred on US RT 72 between a Truck and an SUV.  The driver of the truck, 50-year-old Lt. Randy

CHICAGO (AP) — The state’s response to a protest that shut down the Dan Ryan cost taxpayers about $200,000 on July 7th. Thousands of people turned out to call for more jobs and education opportunities and to draw attention to violence in poor neighborhoods. Hundreds of troopers, sergeants

PAW PAW – In a special school board meeting Thursday night, the deactivation of Paw Paw High School and possible merger with Indian Creek was discussed, with the potential of other options being explored as alternatives. The original proposal, which was laid out last month with Indian Creek