Le Roy News

The Illinois Commerce Commission will allow the construction of a 170-mile oil pipeline that will deliver crude from Canada's oil sands to a storage hub about an hour east of St.

Aurora Public Art Commission: Ricochet. Exhibit to July 26. Free. The Human Condition, photographs by Samantha Oulavong and her students.

Partnership Announced to Relocate NJ Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness to Essex County Hall of Records Complex By The Alternative Press Staff 6/24/2009 Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo, Jr.

The mid- to late '90s was an amazing time to be a band. Long before music downloading and label mergers laid waste to the recording industry, bands were seemingly being signed on a daily basis.

A 14 year old LeRoy boy was sentenced Tuesday to juvenile prison for his role in 11 crimes in the past year.

Several thousand customers are without power in McLean and Tazewell counties in central Illinois after severe storms moved across Illinois.

Memorial Day is a time to remember the fallen troops, and many people get the day off from work.

Aurora Public Art Commission: Hours are noon to 4 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays.

Everyone is welcome to explore Bonner Heritage Farm during Bonner Farm Spring Fling, noon-4 p.m. Sunday, May 24, at Country Place, west of Route 45 in Lindenhurst.

McLean County Sheriff Mike Emery says it is impossible to know if a failed Amber Alert by LeRoy police could have saved the lives of Duncan and Jack Leichtenberg.

The McLean County town of LeRoy Monday night issued a retroactive leave forits police chief.

A central Illinois police chief is on leave after a published report indicated his department delayed an Amber Alert for two brothers later found dead.

GRANVILLE – The Putnam County coroner said Wednesday that the younger of two central Illinois brothers found dead in their father's car died from a combination of a drug overdose and a stab wound in the back.

The Putnam County coroner has identified the causes of death of two LeRoy, Illinois boys apparently killed by their father.

Stanley Richard Bennett, 69, of Clinton, Ill., formerly of Lebanon, died Saturday, May 2, 2009, at LeRoy Manor in LeRoy, Ill.

Earlier this month in McLean County court, 21a 'yeara 'old Jason Marksteiner accepted a plea bargain and was sentenced to fifty years in prison.

A friend of central Illinois mother whose sons were found dead last month says something went wrong in the legal system for the boys to be allowed to visit their father.

A car crash this afternoon claims the life of a teenager from McLean County. Authorities say the 19-year-old female driver failed to stop at the intersection of the Towanda-Cooksville and LeRoy-Lexington blacktops.

It must be incredibly difficult for a judge, police officer or prosecutor to wade through the acrimonious charges that fly about in many a divorce.

One of two apparently abducted and murdered young LeRoy brothers had been stabbed, and prescription medication bottles were found at the scene, a Putnam County official said Friday, the day the boys were buried.