Category Archives: WCMY News
Seven added to coronavirus fatality count in LaSalle County
Seven LaSalle County people, ranging in age from their 70s to their 90s, died of the coronavirus. Adding them to the fatal case count on Tuesday brings that total to 213. The LaSalle County Health Dep...
Dec 23, 2020
Federal spending bill includes money to improve veterans homes
The new spending bill that might come out of Congress for the President's signature soon contains $100 million for grants for veterans homes. Sen. Dick Durbin, in an online news conference this aftern...
Dec 22, 2020
Man agrees to repay money to American Legion
An Ottawa man has agreed to pay $1,000 to the American Legion as restitution for stealing the money. Fifty-two year old Jeffrey P. Roche pleaded guilty this month to theft. He accepted two years on pr...
Dec 22, 2020
Fourth person sentenced in illegal gun sale ring
An Ottawa man is beginning a three-year prison term for the illegal sale of a firearm. Twenty-two year old Nicholas J. Reynolds pleaded guilty this month to the unlawful sale of a firearm by a felon. ...
Dec 22, 2020
Peru raises fine for driving big trucks off truck routes
The fine for driving a big rig truck down a non-truck route in Peru is going up. The City Council has approved raising the cost of just paying a fine without going before the city court judge from $12...
Dec 22, 2020
Freezin food drive fund raising tops $100k
The Freezin for a Reezin food drive has raised more than $100,000. What would normally be a food drive was redirected into asking for just money donations this year to avoid crowds of volunteers sorti...
Dec 22, 2020
Virus claims two more LaSalle County lives
The number of fatal coronavirus cases from LaSalle County climbed again Monday. With two more cases added, the total is 206. The county's health department says there have been 7,890 known and probabl...
Dec 21, 2020
Free COVID-19 tests offered in Bureau County
There are two free COVID-19 testing opportunities in Bureau County this week. One is from 8am to 4pm Tuesday at Hall High School in Spring Valley. The other is at the Bureau County Fairgrounds in Prin...
Dec 21, 2020
New judge chosen for Grundy County
A Morris attorney will fill one of the vacancies in the 13th Judicial Circuit. Scott Belt will be an associate judge, as was Sheldon Sobol for the last nine years. Sobol became a circuit judge last mo...
Dec 21, 2020
LaSalle County fatal coronavirus cases top 200
Six more fatal coronavirus cases were added to LaSalle County's count over the weekend. That brings the county to 204. As of Sunday, there have been 7,872 cases and 5,013 recoveries. That makes 2,859 ...
Dec 21, 2020