A Marseilles man was convicted Friday of killing his father on Father’s Day weekend 2024. Logan Petre faces up to 60 years for murder, with more time coming if convicted of another pending charge.

A Streator man caught with cocaine and a loaded gun pleaded guilty Thursday and was sentenced to a year in prison.

The window for Joshua Casey to stand trial for murder in 2025 is closing fast. Casey doesn’t have new trial dates and it looks unlikely he’ll get them before the holidays.

A Mendota man accused of setting fire to his apartment complex – damage was not significant – will stand trial Nov. 17.

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

A Streator woman pleaded guilty Friday and was sentenced to four years for possessing a stolen gun recovered during a drug seizure.

A La Salle woman faces up to 18 months in prison when she stands for sentencing Nov. 5 for leaving the scene of a 2023 crash that injured an elderly motorist.

The suspect in a pair of fatal shootings in Sheridan has a new lawyer and won a concession Friday from his judge: Ronald Martin can wear street clothes, rather than jail stripes, at future court dates.

A La Salle man was ordered detained Tuesday after police seized two guns in Naplate. One of the firearms was stolen and another’s serial number was removed, police said.

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

Anthony Brito fired shots outside La Salle County’s downtown Ottawa courthouse, a jury ruled Friday, and ruled he was trying to kill Larry Burns.

A Mendota man was supposed to stand for a detention hearing Friday for allegedly setting fire to his apartment complex (damage was not significant) but he simplified matters by refusing to come out of his cell.

Logan Petre will have to wait another month to find out whether he goes free for killing his father in self-defense or whether he’s going to prison for a long time.

A California drug hauler who cut off his ankle bracelet and absconded pleaded guilty Friday and was sentenced to 6 years in prison.

The “Bonnie & Clyde” case in Streator is over. Nicholas Huber pleaded guilty to felonies and took four years in prison.

A Sheffield man pleaded guilty Thursday, and accepted a four-year sentence, for threatening to conduct a shooting at the Ottawa office of the Department of Children and Family Services.

The last suspect in a Sept. 29 stabbing in La Salle pleaded guilty to a felony Thursday and was placed on probation.

Closing arguments are set Friday in the Marseilles strangulation death. Attorneys rested Tuesday after suspect Logan Petre labeled his father as the instigator.

Blake Miller said he was driving friend Anthony Brito through Ottawa when, in autumn 2023, Brito told him to follow a sedan down Route 23. When they pulled alongside the sedan, Brito pulled a handgun and fired.

Larry Burns told a jury the gun aimed at him misfired or jammed. After he sped away from the Ottawa scene, he found bullet holes in his car.

There are seven people in La Salle County Jail facing murder charges. Longtime police and prosecutors were asked: Has the county ever had that many pending murder cases? Answer: no – not even close.

A rural Sheridan man will stand trial Oct. 20 for a double homicide. Ronald Martin Jr. faces life in prison if convicted of shooting two Sheridan residence.

A former La Salle County sheriff’s deputy charged with child pornography will be detained ahead of trial, a judge ruled Thursday

A parolee caught with another 5 ounces of cocaine pleaded guilty Thursday. Attorneys negotiated a14-year term.

A Streator woman accused of setting fire to a house while she wore an ankle monitor pleaded guilty Thursday to two felonies and was placed on four years’ probation.

A now-fired La Salle County sheriff’s deputy was indicted Tuesday by a La Salle County grand jury on 10 counts of child sexual abuse images

A Streator man accused of killing a teen – and injuring two others in the Easter Sunday shooting – pleaded innocent Tuesday and was given an Oct. 6 trial date.

A Streator man wanted for murder in the Easter Sunday shooting that killed a teen, and injured two others, was apprehended Monday in Peru.

A Leland man charged with setting fire to his own house was granted pre-trial release, provided he can furnish pre-trial services with a place to stay.

A Streator man accused of setting fire to a Streator residence will undergo a mental health evaluation before standing trial.

Courtney Perkins remains convicted for a shot fired in a Streator drug bust, but his prison time was shaved by eight years due to sentencing errors.

A La Salle County jury deliberated about two hours Thursday and convicted Malcolm Whitfield, 31, of Streator (also listed in DeKalb) of eight felonies led by first-degree murder for the 2023 shooting that injured two others.

A Bryon man accused of setting fire to the Kentucky Fried Chicken in La Salle was granted pre-trial release Thursday while he awaits trial for arson.

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.