An Ottawa man pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a minor Friday and was sentenced to 30 years.

Kevin Billups of Peru was awaiting a jury trial for dealing cocaine – jurors were to be selected Monday – when he allegedly, and while on pre-trial release, sold another 2 ounces of cocaine.

She claimed to run a daycare service in Ottawa with earnings of $100,000. Ebony Green was actually a hair stylist earning a fraction of that. Yet she got a COVID-19 relief loan for nearly $20,000. Ebony Green may now go to prison for five years.

La Salle County deputies didn’t find much alcohol on the roads Thanksgiving weekend -- just one DUI -- but 20 unlucky motorists were caught speeding or using handheld devices.

A La Salle County grand jury convened Tuesday and returned the following indictments.

Nicolaus Phillips will stand trial March 5 for the fatal shooting of an Ottawa man. Newly-filed court records show he plans to argue self-defense.

While police said an Ottawa man was arrested on a charge of attempted murder of a Will County sheriff’s deputy in Joliet, that was not among the charges in an indictment filed on Wednesday.

The Bureau County Grand Jury considered the following cases on Nov. 14.

A Streator man was sentenced to 80 years in prison in the shooting that killed one and injured two others.