Category Archives: WCMY News

LaSalle County's fatal coronavirus case count went up by three Monday. The county's health department says a man in his 70's, a woman in her 70's, and a woman in her 90's died. That makes 265 fatal ca...

Sen. Dick Durbin wants an impeachment trial for former President Donald Trump to air out what Trump did. The former president is accused of inciting the riot at the U.S. Capitol building on January 6t...

The archery method for hunting deer is growing in popularity across Illinois. Illinois Department of Natural Resources spokeswoman Rachel Torbert says a record 67,543 deer were hunted that way statewi...

A judge is to announce his decision on February 25th on whether 46-year old Mason Shannon of Iowa should still face an involuntary manslaughter charge for an Ottawa man's death. Shannon's attorneys sa...

There won't be a LaSalle, Putnam, and Marshall counties regional spelling bee this year. The event has been cancelled because of the coronavirus. Each school with sixth, seventh, and eighth grade stud...

A Kernan man is charged with aggravated discharge of a firearm in connection with a shooting in Kernan Friday night. Twenty-six year old Steven A. Shelly is also accused of possession of a firearm wit...

There were two more coronavirus related deaths in LaSalle County counted over the weekend. The total is 262. The LaSalle County Health Department says two men in their 80's died of it. The number of c...

Ottawa High School administrators will decide this week whether to reopen the school to all students at the same time for in-person learning. The district has been having a third of the students there...

Someone fired a gun at a house in Kernan Friday night. LaSalle County deputies got a search warrant for a home in Kernan and went there with it in the early morning hours Saturday. Investigators had f...