Category Archives: WCMY News
Circuit Clerk offers check for Peru police to try new ticketing software
LaSalle County Circuit Clerk Greg Vaccaro is trying to make police officers' jobs easier. Last week he offered the Peru Police Department a $12,000 check to install software called Digiticket into som...
Oct 03, 2022
Illinois St. Sen says abolishing cash bail in SAFE-T Act is an overreach
Illinois St. Sen. Jason Barickman says abolishing cash bail through the SAFE-T Act is an overreach. The Bloomington Republican says the way it reads will skew things more in favor of the accused rathe...
Oct 02, 2022
United Way Ottawa chapter does 31st annual Labor of Love
Volunteers of all skill levels helped repair and clean up homes in five communities in LaSalle County Saturday. The United Way of Eastern LaSalle County sent the volunteers to about two dozen homes in...
Oct 01, 2022
Unit two nuclear reactor at LaSalle Station powering up after four-day outage
LaSalle Station nuclear reactor unit two is powering up again. It went offline Monday after a small fire, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's incident report. The report says workers manu...
Oct 01, 2022 WCMY file photo of LaSalle Station nuclear power generation station
Streator ambulance service starts today
Streator's city-run ambulance service starts at 8am today. AMT's service is ending. The company says it can't afford to continue providing ambulance service from billing alone. Streator's city council...
Oct 01, 2022
United Way of the Illinois Valley gets $10,500 from Peru City Council
The United Way of the Illinois Valley got a $10,500 check from the city of Peru. The money came from donations from a golf tournament hosted by the city's Health and Wellness committee. City Human Res...
Oct 01, 2022
Streator man charged with attempted murder after Trident drug sting; accomplice given different charges
One person is facing attempted murder charges after a shot was fired at a Tri-County Drug Enforcement Narcotics Agent in Streator. Trident says an undercover agent was trying to purchase MDMA from 20-...
Sep 30, 2022
Weekly COVID report: One additional death, current cases fall for eighth straight week
There was one additional death from COVID-19 in LaSalle County this week. It was a man in his 80's. He is the 491st death in the county. That means county at a 1.43% mortality rate. The LaSalle County...
Sep 30, 2022
Two Ottawa men to go to Health and Human Services because of mental fitness in two separate crimes
Instead of receiving prison time, two Ottawa men are going to the Illinois Department of Health and Human Services because of their mental fitness. 30-year old Sean T. Przybylski was accused of vehicu...
Sep 30, 2022
Illinois Valley Community College hosting two transfer day events
Students at Illinois Valley Community College can learn about other colleges they can go to after they graduate. The college is having two transfer day events where representatives from four year coll...
Sep 30, 2022