Category Archives: WCMY News

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...

The LaSalle County Health Department reports two more people have died of the coronavirus from the county. A man in his 40s and a man in his 70s were in the daily statistical report Friday. They bring...

Sen. Dick Durbin is sponsoring bills to exempt unemployment benefits from income tax and to have the federal government subsidize an unemployed person's health insurance costs. The Illinois Democrat s...

Retired school superintendent Christine Benson of Ottawa has been named to the Illinois State Board of Education. She was a teacher for 20 years and worked as superintendent in the Mendota High, Ottaw...