Category Archives: WCMY News

Streator police are investigating what happened when gunshots hit a house in the 100 block of E. 10th St. this morning. It happened at 3:20am. No one was hurt. Police stopped a vehicle that may have b...

While investigating the murder case against 25-year old Kenneth Herbst, prosecutors say they learned of a prior crime. Judge H. Chris Ryan ruled Friday that the evidence can be presented in the LaSall...

A stolen gun and some brass knuckles turned up when Ottawa police stopped a car at Marquette and Chestnut streets early Friday. Nineteen year old Mariano M. Verucchi is charged with possession of a st...

Different parts of Illinois' new criminal justice law take effect on different dates over the next few years. St. Rep. David Welter says that gives people time to campaign for changes to the parts the...

A LaSalle County woman in her 90's has succumbed to the coronavirus, according to the county health department's daily report. Her case is the 278th from the county to be fatal. The department's figur...

Cong. Adam Kinzinger says without question we need to protect LGBTQ Americans. But he says the Equality Act didn't include protections included in the decades old Hyde Amendment, so he voted against i...

Congress could pass Pres. Biden's coronavirus stimulus bill today. Sen. Dick Durbin says the country needs it. One of the well known provisions is for $1,400 payments to Americans whose incomes are be...

The LaSalle County Health Department reported another COVID-19 related death yesterday. A man in his 70's is fatal case number 277. The department reported it was another day of recoveries outnumberin...

Forty-six year old Mason Shannon of Iowa still faces an involuntary manslaughter charge in the 2017 death of 32-year old Michael Castelli. Shannon's accused of putting the Ottawa man in a chokehold fa...

For supporters of the new Illinois criminal justice reform law, ending cash bail for most crimes is about not keeping people in jail more for being poor than for being accused. County governments acro...