Peru police have identified the motorist charged in the alcohol-related Wednesday crash that injured a pedestrian. The pedestrian remains hospitalized.

The Dayton man convicted in the Ottawa murder-cremation is going back to prison.

A pedestrian was struck and injured by a vehicle Wednesday in Peru, and the driver is charged with DUI.

The woman charged with driving the getaway vehicle in an Ottawa shooting death still awaits an opinion on whether she was sane at the time. Chastity Furar will be back in court Jan. 12.

Two motorists and three passengers were hospitalized Saturday after a head-on collision at 11:16 p.m. Saturday on North 2975th Road (Frontage Road), just east of Hollerich Drive in Peru.

The La Salle Police Department is investigating an incident that occurred in October where an individual was contacted by an alleged Amazon Agent, who passed the individual onto an alleged government agents claiming to have a federal warrant for the victim’s arrest.

A Streator woman faces up to 14 years in prison after pleading guilty Thursday to two felonies filed in connection with a fatal Streator shooting.

Two La Salle County men could face decades in prison after a Monday traffic stop and drug raid that yielded guns and $180,000 worth of cocaine, marijuana and psilocybin mushrooms.

A teenager from Tonica has been charged in connection with a spree of vehicle thefts and burglaries and La Salle police say they have identified additional suspects.