Category Archives: Local News
Stalled school bus struck by Chicago-area commuter train
ORLAND PARK, Ill. (AP) - A commuter train struck the front-end of a school bus that stalled on tracks in suburban Chicago. The driver and the five students aboard the bus were able to exit before the ...
Feb 05, 2022 Tomash Devenishek / CC
Drew Peterson gets another chance to fight murder conviction
CHICAGO (AP) - Former suburban Chicago police Sgt. Drew Peterson is getting another chance to ask a judge to vacate his 2012 conviction in the murder of his third wife. A hearing Monday will be before...
Feb 05, 2022
Woman alleges poppy seed cake led to positive opiate test
CHICAGO (AP) - A suburban Chicago woman alleges that a hospital tested her for drugs without her consent before she gave birth and the resulting false positive for opiates led to months of monitoring ...
Feb 05, 2022 Betsy Weber / CC
Chicago couple charged in $2.1M retail theft from warehouse
CAROL STREAM, Ill. (AP) - A Chicago couple has been charged with the theft of merchandise valued at more than $2 million from a retail distribution company. The DuPage County State's Attorney's Office...
Feb 05, 2022
All Marion County Roads now plowed; conditions improving following 6" snow (2:45 pm update)
Road conditions continue to improve a day after a major winter storm moved through the area dumping ice and six inches of snow that was blown around by a nearly 40 mile per hour wind. Major highways a...
Feb 04, 2022 While the roads have been a challenge, there's been a lot of fun in the snow as well. Here is one of 100s of snow photos submitted to the WJBD Facebook Page submitted by Rene Crouse. Make sure to visit our Facebook page to see all the photos and enter one of your own!
Salem Bryan Bennett Library plans busy February
The Salem Bryan Bennett Library has several programs planned for February. Library patrons will be able to have a blind date with a book throughout the month. Program Director Karen Shanafelt has wrap...
Feb 04, 2022
COVID-19 cases continue to decline; just 60,389 last week statewide
Illinois Department of Public Health officials say the number of new COVID-19 cases for the week ending Friday dropped by more than half over the previous week. There were 60,389 new cases compared to...
Feb 04, 2022
Snow Photos From Winter Storm Landon
Feb 04, 2022
Six State Troopers struck while working winter storm past two days
State Police say they have investigated six crashes were troopers were struck while working during the current winter storm. Fourinvolved violation of Scott's Law as a factor. One of the crashes on We...
Feb 04, 2022
In plea deal, man admits setting police SUV on fire in riot
CHICAGO (AP) - A Chicago man has pleaded guilty to setting a police SUV on fire while wearing a Joker mask during widespread demonstrations in May 2020 over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. T...
Feb 04, 2022 Joe Gratz
