La Salle County Court

Three years after an arson investigation was opened at the Kentucky Fried Chicken in La Salle, authorities have charged a former employee of the store.

A La Salle County jury will decide Thursday whether Malcolm Whitfield fired the shots that killed Shaquita Kelly and injured two others.

Five days after Shaquita Kelly was shot and killed, Malcolm Whitfield sat for a police interview and admitted being at a fight in Streator – but said he wasn’t the instigator and he wasn’t carrying any gun.

A Streator man charged with shooting three people, killing one, turned down an offer by La Salle County prosecutors. Instead, Malcolm Whitfield plans to argue self-defense.

Two bodies were found burned from a residential fire in Sheridan, but prosecutors disclosed Friday both were shot. Two eyewitnesses told police it was Ronald Martin Jr. who pulled the trigger.

A Marseilles man faces up to 12 years in prison when he’s sentenced for setting fire to his brother’s house – and while his brother was trapped inside.

The Sheridan man charged with murder in connection with two bodies found in a burning home Thursday morning in rural Sheridan is in custody, according to the La Salle County Sheriff’s Office.

A Sheridan man has been charged with murder following the day-long investigation into the discovery of two bodies in rural Sheridan – but the suspect is not yet in custody.

A driver was charged Tuesday for a crash that killed a Princeton man on Thanksgiving weekend near Ottawa. He was using a handheld cell phone, prosecutors allege.

A La Salle County grand jury convened Tuesday and returned the following indictments

New La Salle County Judge Mark Anderson was sworn in Wednesday.

Logan Petre argues he killed his father in self-defense, but Tuesday, at Petre’s murder trial, an investigator recovered evidence Petre may have tried to cover up the killing

A Streator man charged with shooting three people, killing one, will stand trial for murder on July 21.

An Ottawa man pleaded guilty Thursday to firing a gun through his floor – and through his neighbor’s ceiling. Nicholas Snyder is going to prison for seven years.

A Sheridan man charged in 2022 with firing shots at two men, injuring one, before mounting an armed standoff has been found fit to stand trial.

A Streator woman charged with arson, and while she wore an ankle monitor, will undergo a mental health evaluation.

A Peru man was ordered detained Monday after prosecutors charged him with possessing nearly 8 ounces of cocaine plus two firearms.

A Streator woman charged with multiple felonies led by possession of a stolen gun will stand trial Aug. 25.

A Streator man charged with murder will not stand trial July 14. Joshua Casey has a new lawyer who needs more time to prepare.

A La Salle County grand jury convened Tuesday and returned the following indictments

A La Salle man caught with methamphetamine and a pistol, prohibited because of his felony record, was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison.

A Seneca man told James Grimm that he smelled bad. Grimm didn’t like that, prosecutors say, so he allegedly stabbed the man in a Saturday bar fight.

A Marseilles man faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to possession of a stolen firearm.

A longtime attorney for the County of La Salle has been made a judge.

Chester Weger, 86, who spent nearly six decades in prison for killing Lillian Oetting, one of three women fatally bludgeoned in 1960 at Starved Rock, died June 22.

A Streator woman was arrested on Thursday night after officers discovered drugs and a stolen pistol following a routine traffic stop.

Two people charged with money laundering in La Salle County have autumn trial dates, but already the fall settings look shaky.

The Dayton man convicted in the Ottawa murder-cremation is headed back to La Salle County Circuit Court for do-over proceedings.

A Streator man is facing multiple charges after allegedly pointing a firearm at people while riding an ATV through city streets Wednesday evening, according to police.

A La Salle County grand jury convened Tuesday and returned the following indictments

Luis Urena already is accused of shooting a Streator woman in the neck. Now, prosecutors allege he tried to kill her.

Two parolees face new felony drug charges and will remain held in La Salle County Jail, prosecutors said Monday.

A Streator man will stand trial Aug. 4 for carrying a firearm that police said had been converted into an automatic weapon.

The teenager charged in the Arthur Street shooting in Streator will stand trial Aug. 11.

A La Salle business owner avoided prison Friday despite failing to pay state sales taxes for more than two years.

A La Salle man was placed on non-reporting probation after pleading guilty Friday to two misdemeanors filed after he brandished an assault rifle with Environmental Protection Agency workers in the vicinity.

A gunshot fired 2022 in La Salle – no one was hurt – led to a prison sentence for a La Salle man.

Two people were charged with money laundering Friday after a lengthy financial investigation by La Salle County authorities.

The alleged getaway driver in the 2023 shooting death in Ottawa will stand trial Sept. 29.

Prosecutors allege that Logan Petre killed his father without justification. Petre’s lawyer argues the late Leo Petre had been drinking, used cocaine and forced Logan to resort to self-defense.

A special prosecutor asked Wednesday to re-open Chester Weger‘s mini-trial. Weger’s judge said no.

A La Salle County grand jury convened Tuesday, May 20, 2025, and returned the following indictments.

A Streator woman was ordered detained Wednesday for allegedly setting fire to a residence – damage was limited – while she wore an ankle monitor.

A Streator man convicted of firing a gunshot at a fire pit at Hi-Tide Campground near Leland avoided prison or jail with a last-minute agreed sentence.

A Spring Valley man charged in the Ottawa shooting death will stand trial for murder on Sept. 8; but the jury won’t hear a tainted confession he gave police.

A La Salle man pleaded guilty Friday to having unlawful sexual contact with a 13-year-old girl. Richard Lombardi took four years in a plea.

Weger, who moved to Missouri earlier this year, did not appear in court during Monday’s proceedings

A Sheffield man facing up to 10 years for allegedly threatening an Ottawa shooting allegedly cut off his ankle monitor and was located 100 miles away. David Jones now will be detained, a judge ruled.

Friday wasn’t a happy birthday for Teren Overbeck. The California drug suspect was hoping for another try at pre-trial release, but a judge wouldn’t grant his birthday wish.

A Streator man facing bank robbery and firearm charges still needs a lawyer – Charles Spencer will need a new judge, too.