Category Archives: WCMY News

A judge says a couple who bought a south side Ottawa house the month before the 2017 Naplate-Ottawa tornado aren't liable for two lives lost when the storm knocked over a tree. Seventy-six year old Wa...

This year's power production outage at LaSalle Station took longer than usual-two months instead of three weeks. Exelon Nuclear Communications Manager Sara Peters says the maintenance crew found more ...

A man from Thomson, Illinois is jailed with bond set at $50,000 after he allegedly led police on a high speed chase in LaSalle County Monday. Thirty-eight year old James R. Tracy is accused of some tr...

Seneca police say if you have the sponsorship banners that are missing from Graves Park, you can return them to the police station, no questions asked. Otherwise, if the police figure out who you are,...

After being canceled due to the pandemic last year Freedom Fest is coming back to Marseilles. The event follows the Illinois Motorcycle Freedom run that ends in the city at The Middle East Conflict Me...

Brendan Donahue is the new Ottawa Elementary School Board president. He's most recently been the vice president in his three years on the board. Steve Omolecki is the vice president now and Mary Ann S...

A garage was burned up and the house next to it has some fire damage in Mendota. The fire was in the 1500 block of Indiana Ave. yesterday afternoon. The Mendota Fire Department asked for help from nei...

Ken Kolowski took the oath of office to be Peru's new mayor last night. He defeated Scott Harl in the election. Harl had been mayor for 12 years. In a goodbye message he posted on Facebook Friday, Har...

Republican businessman Gary Rabine is one of three candidates running to unseat Governor Pritzker. Rabine says that businesses in Illinois are not staying. He says in 2019 about 50,000 jobs left the s...

The Prospect League baseball team that's coming to Peru might have a marketing advantage. The team name, Pistol Shrimp, is memorable. Manager June Keeley says people always ask what a pistol shrimp is...