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STREATOR – Streator High School will agree to accept Chinese Foreign Exchange students beginning in January. In a board meeting yesterday, members agreed to allow Foreign Service (China) Group to provide the high school with up to 20 students for the 2018 Spring Semester. Superintendent

OTTAWA – A church group in Ottawa is fighting hunger with micro food pantries. Earlier this week, Crossbridge Community Church unveiled a new micro pantry outside of Jeremiah Joe Coffee on LaSalle Street in Ottawa. Allison Appel, director of the church’s Feed His Children ministry, says

MALTA – A semi truck caused a vehicle to crash into a bank in Dekalb County on Tuesday. Illinois State Police and Dekalb Sheriffs were called before 9AM for a reported collision on Route 38 in Malta, involving a fully loaded semi truck. Police say 18-year-old David Rivera of Belvidere was

MENDOTA – Mendota High School is looking to take in Paw Paw students. After a meeting held by Superintendent Jeff Prusator earlier this week, he states the board is interested in making an offer with Paw Paw to send their students to Mendota High School. Prusator says Mendota HS has been

STREATOR – A man was arrested for a burglary in Streator on Monday. Illinois State Police say 48-year-old Alonzo Kyles of Streator was arrested at Streator City Park for a reported burglary to a building located on the grounds. An Illinois State Police Master Sergeant was in the area when

MORRIS – A brief manhunt ended with the arrest of one man after a woman fled from a car in Morris suffering from stab wounds. Around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday the Morris Police Department say they were called to a Gas Station in the 2000 block of North Division Street for a stabbing. A bystander

SPRING VALLEY – The remaining portions of the old bridge over the Illinois River is scheduled to imploded Wednesday in Spring Valley. IDOT announced that, weather permitting, closures will begin around 7:30 a.m. and the Illinois Route 89 bridge should be open by 10 a.m., however, the

JOLIET – The Illinois State Police have positively identified the pedestrian that was killed on August 12th in Will County walking along I-80. Authorities say 69-year-old James D. Oostdyk of Joliet was struck and killed by a vehicle while walking on the westbound side of the interstate

BLOOMINGTON – Police are still seeking answers as to who murdered a man in 2012 under a bridge in Bloomington. On August 16th, 2012, 48-year-old Robert Jeronimus was found in the 400 Block of South Main Street and detectives are still looking for information as to where he was in the days

CHICAGO (AP) — Anne and Bruce Hunt of Chicago have made scrapbooks for years, amassing 48 and counting. But the effort to preserve the couple’s family history has taken on greater meaning since Anne was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease just over two year ago. The diagnosis came