A Streator man has been charged with murder in the Easter Sunday shooting that killed a teen and injured two others, both of whom were discharged from a hospital.

A California man was granted home confinement, cut off his bracelet and spent a year on the lam. Now, Teren Overbeck is back in custody and La Salle County prosecutors want him to stay there.

The search is on for a new family court judge in La Salle County.

Mobile home tax bills in La Salle County are due on Thursday, May 1.

Spring has arrived and the familiar urge to revive my garden stirs within me once more.

The Sandwich baseball team - behind the pitching of Braden Behringer - topped Richmond-Burton in Wednesday's Kishwaukee River Conference game. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

The Sycamore softball team took advantage of a trio of Ottawa errors and a dropped third strike to score three runs in the top of the ninth inning to stay unbeaten in Interstate 8 Conference play with a 6-3 victory on Wednesday in Ottawa.

Green Street in Ottawa will be closed again from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday, April 25, as crews continue work on the box culvert headwall.

In honor of Earth Day this week, the Ottawa Downtown Association is inviting community members to participate in Operation: Clean Sweep from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, April 26.