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LASALLE  – If you plan on cooking up a storm for holiday celebrations, following these safety tips could help prevent a leading cause in home fires and injuries. According to the National Fire Protection Association, the leading cause of fires in the kitchen results from unattended

LASALLE – The Illinois State Police are reminding motorists to drive safe during holiday travels. Captain Jason LoCoco of District 17 says when traveling during the holidays, please be accountable for actions behind the wheel. If you are attending a holiday celebration where alcohol is

BRACEVILLE – One man has died and another man was arrested following a single vehicle crash Christmas Eve morning in Grundy County. According to Grundy County Coroner John W. Callahan the crash occurred around 10:30 a.m. on Illinois Route 53 near Braceville. A truck was reportedly traveling

SPRINGFIELD – A grant program is now available through the Illinois Department of Natural Resources to support Asian Carp processors and product-makers to find more ways to market the invasive fish. Gov. Bruce Rauner announced that companies and individuals interested in expanding demand for

AURORA – One man was arrested on Heroin charges in Aurora after a search warrant in Kane County.   The Aurora Police Department announces that on December 12th they executed a search warrant in the 400 block of Garfield Ave.  Taken into custody was 60-year-old Robert E. Merriweather who

PERU– Jennifer Sines is the new pharmacy director at Illinois Valley Community Hospital. A 2000 graduate of Creighton University’s School of Pharmacy, Sines has worked full-time as a pharmacist at IVCH since 2003.  Before then she had worked holidays and summers at the hospital as a

STREATOR – All legal work for the city of Streator will be transferred to a new law firm beginning in 2019. At this weeks council meeting city attorney Sheryl Churney announced she will be leaving the law firm she is currently at, for Klein, Thorpe and Jenkins Ltd. Churney says being a

NAPLATE – The Tri-County Drug Enforcement Narcotics Team took a Naplate man into custody Wednesday after an investigation into cocaine sales.  Around 11 a.m. they executed a search warrant in the 200 block of 18th ave. in Naplate, where they reportedly found over 17 grams of purported

STREATOR – Chamlin and Associates Inc. will be the firm that will take on designing traffic signal improvements in downtown Streator. The project is a component of the downtown street scape project that will begin in 2019. City Engineer Jeremy Palm says street lights, and concrete work,

STREATOR – The city of Streator authorized the purchase of high tech medical equipment for the Streator EMS. In a council meeting on Wednesday, the city authorized the purchase of a CPR Monitor that gives real-time feedback while a person is performing CPR, indicating how hard and fast the