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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed into law a $45 billion capital spending plan to build and upgrade bridges, roads, schools and parks and pay for it by expanding gambling and make it more expensive to do things like drive and smoke cigarettes. Pritzker signed the

LASALLE –  The Illinois State Police will be conducting roadside safety checks during July in LaSalle County. District 17 Commander, Jason LoCoco says officers working the detail will be watchful for drivers who are operating vehicles in an unsafe manner, driving with a suspended or

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Latest on the investigation into a Utah college student’s disappearance. Authorities are filing murder and kidnapping charges in the death of a Utah college student who disappeared 11 days ago. Salt Lake City police chief Mike Brown said 31-year-old Ayoola A.

Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White’s legislative initiative strengthening the law on texting while driving takes effect July 1. The law cracks down on texting while driving by classifying first-time offenses as moving violations. Under the previous law, second and subsequent texting while

OTTAWA – Beginning July, the Environmental Protection Agency will start cleanup activities on an area of the Ottawa Radiation Superfund site. The EPA says workers will be removing contaminated soil from the NPL-8 Frontage Property to reduce the risk of exposure to people who have access to

OGLESBY – An Oglesby woman was arrested following an investigation into heroin sales. According to the Tri-County Drug Enforcement Narcotics Team, just after after 9 a.m. Thursday, 28-year-old Jenna M. Savage was arrested on a LaSalle County warrant for two counts of unlawful delivery of a

STREATOR – A Chicago man was arrested  following an investigation into reported cocaine sales in Streator, Tuesday. According to the Tri-County Drug Enforcement Narcotics Team, just before 5 p.m. 23-year-old Davon A. Edwards was arrested on a LaSalle County warrant for three counts of

  LEWISTOWN, Ill. (AP) — A man suspected of fatally shooting an Illinois sheriff’s deputy has been charged with first-degree murder and ordered held on $5 million bond. Forty-two-year-old Nathan Woodring of Avon appeared Thursday in Fulton County Circuit Court. He’s accused of

PICNEYVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A southern Illinois man convicted of an attack in which he stuck his fingers in another man’s eyes and blinded him has been sentenced to 35 years in prison by a judge who told him he deserved more time behind bars. Media outlets report that the sentence imposed