A Bureau County man in his 50s and a La Salle County woman in her 80s are among the 42 COVID-related deaths reported by the Illinois Department of Public Health today (Thursday). The state also announced 1740 new cases since yesterday (Wednesday). 1200 people are in Illinois hospitals fighti…

Another day, another alleged shoplifting at the Peru Walmart. Forty-eight-year-old Richard Howard of Peru was stopped for alleged retail theft Tuesday night at around 6. Following an investigation, Peru Police charged him and gave him a notice to appear. They released him with a La Salle Cou…

A Princeton woman got a sample of new Bureau County Associate Judge James Andreoni's style Wednesday, when she was sentenced to two years in prison for unlawful possession of meth.

After a long winter, the I&M Canal could use a little tender loving care.

Is this a positive sign that the spread is slowing?

A local family is fighting for their father who contracted COVID-19 around New Year’s Day.

State Senator Sue Rezin's latest effort to get to the bottom of a COVID-19 outbreak at the Illinois Veterans' Home in La Salle is to use a common media tool.

The name of a driver killed in a Princeton crash has been released.

The next superintendent of the Putnam County School District is being promoted from within.

Two people from La Salle County people and two folks from Bureau County are the latest to pass from COVID-19.

What's the craziest thing you did as a 14-year-old? It probably won't be as crazy as what a Mendota child is accused of doing.

A spat at a Mendota trailer park escalated quickly on Sunday afternoon. Just before 3, police responded to a tenant/landlord dispute on South 13th Avenue. As the officers were sorting things out, they learned that Robert Chandler of that address had a warrant out of Logan County for failure …

Paying for someone else to handle your garbage in Princeton is getting costlier.

The latest member of the million dollar bond club at the La Salle County Jail is an alleged dealer from Streator.

Nobody was hurt during a kitchen fire in Spring Valley.

A teenager who was seriously hurt in a wreck along Route 6 is back home on the mend.

La Salle County has lost another person to COVID-19. Today (On Tuesday), the county health department announced the victim to be a man in his 60s. Two-hundred-seventy-nine La Salle County-ans have passed away to date. A bit of a silver lining: While 14 new cases were announced today, so were…

Don't drive if you shouldn't be. And if you get popped, show up for your court date. Some La Salle-Peru folks have learned this the hard way.

A Dalzell man bought some trouble with the Peru police when he allegedly repeatedly shoplifted from – and trespassed at – a service station.

A La Salle teen found himself in trouble as he made his way through Spring Valley on Monday afternoon. He allegedly was involved in a hit-and-run accident at the intersection of Routes 6 and 89.