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UTICA – The weekend gathering at Carey Memorial Park in Utica to celebrate pork continues as Pork Fest rolls into its second day. Sunday festivities kick off at noon with a performance by Ottawa Dance Academy and the band Free Range Chickens starting at 3 PM. The kids zone will be in action

SPRING VALLEY – A Spring Valley couple has died after a crash Friday in Putnam County. The Putnam County Sheriff’s office say that 62-year-old Laurence E. Sieg was turning north on to Illinois 89 from North 1250th Road when his vehicle was struck on the drivers side by a 17-year-old

MENDOTA- The sound of remote control boats will fill the air this weekend as the Minute Breakers Classic returns to Lake Mendota.  Mike Zaborowski came from Wisconsin to compete in the event, which will see the small nitro-methane powered boats reach speeds up to 90 MPH.   This is the 19th year

OTTAWA – OSF HealthCare received a $50,000 grant to support a redesign of Mobile Integrated Health in Streator. The vision is for the redesigned Mobile Integrated Health to be an innovative and evolving model of community-based health care designed to provide more effective and efficient

  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The Native American tribe leading the fight against the Dakota Access oil pipeline wants a judge to resolve all legal challenges to federal permits issued for the project. The Standing Rock Sioux filed a motion for summary judgment in federal court Friday. The tribe

BLOOMINGTON – The following is a statement from Illinois Farm Bureau President Richard Guebert, Jr., regarding the USDA’s declaration of an agriculture disaster in all 102 Illinois counties. “Most of this year has tested Illinois farmers’ mental and physical fortitude. Weather

DIXON – The EPA will be spending nearly $3 million to remove toxic materials from the former Dixon Iron & Metal Company on Monroe Ave in Dixon.  The project will take about sixty days and began this week. Dixon was told by the EPA that additional concerns exist due to run off water

TROY GROVE – Farmers, sand and gravel haulers will enjoy a shorter trip to get to I-39 after a bridge replacement on US Route 52 outside of Troy Grove.   IDOT said the project over the Little Vermillion River would be completed in late November, but was finished months ahead of schedule.

OGLESBY – Illinois Valley Community College adopted their 2020 budget at Thursday’s board meeting. Revenues increased less than 1 percent and expenditures decreased slightly less than one percent from the 2019 budget.Operating revenues and expenditures are balanced at approximately

DANVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A former central Illinois man has received two life prison sentences in the deaths of a man and woman. The bodies of Theodore Hill and Zarra Laws Strickland were discovered in a secluded area west of Danville, each with bullet wounds to the head. Glen T. Torres Jr. in