Category Archives: WCMY News
Former state's attorney returns to private practice
Former LaSalle County State's Attorney Karen Donnelly has returned to private law practice. After Todd Martin defeated her in the State's Attorney race of 2020, Donnelly went to work as a Grundy Count...
Mar 18, 2022
January unemployment figures are up from December's
Unemployment is down from a year ago, but up from month to month, in the latest Illinois Department of Employment Security report for this area. LaSalle County had 8.7% unemployment in January last ye...
Mar 18, 2022 The New York Public Library / Unsplash
Ottawa man arrested again for unlawful drug possession, along with another person
For the second time in two months, Tri-County Drug Enforcement Narcotics Agents went to the home of 45-year old Christopher Cunico on Ottawa's south side on Wednesday afternoon. After he allegedly tri...
Mar 17, 2022
New charge in child porn case from December
Bond was set at $300,000 for an Ottawa woman accused of helping spread child pornography. Twenty-nine year old Shahnaz M. Baugher was connected this week to an investigation that led to 38-year old Sh...
Mar 17, 2022
United Way Ottawa chapter has $190k in emergency food and shelter funds
The United Way of Eastern LaSalle County has a deadline of next Thursday to hear from organizations and government units asking for emergency food and shelter money. The United Way chapter has about $...
Mar 17, 2022
Pistol Shrimp season not affected by MLB lockout
Illinois Valley Pistol Shrimp General Manger June Keeley says the Major League Baseball lockout doesn't directly affect the team. She says the players that will play for the Pistol Shrimp are focusing...
Mar 17, 2022
Legislature's Republicans propose tax credit and gasoline tax break
Republican St. Rep. Tom Demmer of Dixon doesn't think pausing the 1% sales tax on groceries, as Gov. Pritzker proposes, will do much to relieve people's financial strains. Republican lawmakers are pro...
Mar 17, 2022 Pictures of Money / CC
Marseilles Rutland St sidewalk project start still on hold
A grant the city of Marseilles received to put sidewalks on Rutland St. has hit a technicality. City Engineer Mike Etscheid says the city received some confusing information from the Illinois Departme...
Mar 17, 2022
Indiana man found guilty of aggravated vehicular high jacking
It only took jurors about forty-eight minutes to convict and Indiana man of aggravated vehicular hijacking. 30-year old Darion Coleman was arrested in November last year in Montgomery County after he ...
Mar 16, 2022
Update: Person arrested in threat made to two veterans clinics
Peru Deputy Police Chief Sarah Raymond says no one was shooting at or near the veterans clinic on Progress Blvd. today. Some reports about a threat there claimed so. Raymond says someone telephoned a ...
Mar 16, 2022