The Grundy County Sheriff's Department said in a statement Thursday that it's increasing traffic enforcement around the Fourth of July starting Friday morning through Monday, July 8.
Christopher Cruickshank, 22, Carbon Hill, was arrested at 4:09 p.m. Thursday after a mother provided video evidence that he was beating their son.
Seneca police said Thursday a minor has been referred to the La Salle County Juvenile Probation Office on charges stemming from damage at Graves Park.
Grundy County deputies responded at 6 a.m. Sunday to the 2400 block of Amber Lane in Diamond in response to a hit and run after a resident reported their brick mailbox had been destroyed sometime overnight.
The Minooka Police Department is asking people to be careful using their credit and debit cards at gas stations in Minooka, as a skimmer was found at the Pilot gas station on Ridge Road.
The Grundy County Sheriff's Office Pro-Active Unit found 13.41 grams of suspected cocaine and 55 grams of suspected fentanyl during a traffic stop at 1:43 p.m. Thursday.
The Grundy County Proactive Unit, a collaboration of officers from cities and jurisdictions within Grundy County, seized 216.5 grams of fentanyl and $1,961 in cash during a traffic stop on Wednesday.
The shot might have been an accident and the only person hurt besides her was a companion whose finger was grazed. Nevertheless, Malinda Missel of Marseilles is going to prison for three years.
A Will County judge ordered the jail release of a man charged with a 2017 murder at the Joliet Outlaws clubhouse but he suspended his court order to give prosecutors time to appeal his decision.