Tom Collins

A petition is circulating urging Springfield not to rename Starved Rock State Park. Dozens signed it Monday at a Utica business and pledged to collect more signatures.

The prospect of Scottish independence has gone for a generation and Irish reunification will doomed too if it becomes too closely associated with one party

A school bus was involved in a collision reported at 3:05 p.m. Wednesday on May Road east of Route 251 in Peru. Four students were on board but injuries were not known.

Senator files resolution opposing name change State Sen. Sue Rezin (R- Morris ) said Wednesday she opposes a proposal to change the name of Starved Rock State Park.

They call her "the Magnet" because major catastrophes (the Westclox fire, for one) seem to always happen under her watch. But what Julie Dean, a veteran with Illinois Valley Regional Dispatch, attracts most is the esteem of law enforcement.

‘We all knew someday Ben would be chief,' colleague says The overhead view wasn't pretty. Utica had been slammed with a tornado, and Ben Brown's hometown was in shambles.

His retirement didn't last very long Bill Sommer's retirement, if it could even be called that, didn't last very long.

Newell faces up to 5 years for injuring a baby An Ottawa woman could face up to five years in prison if convicted of injuring a baby (not

‘Alcohol and guns don't mix,' state's attorney says The shot may have been an accident and a companion's lone injury a finger graze, however, Malinda Missel is going to prison for three years.

Two Ottawa men remain set for trial in late May for an armed home invasion charge, in which shots were fired, but first will ask a judge to throw out evidence against them.