Bureau Valley Junior High's Stevie Davis, Kinley Gruber and Leah Donnelly took part in the 67th Student Council State Convention on April 17-18 in Springfield.

A Leland man could face up to seven years in prison after pleading guilty Friday to setting his own house on fire.

The mayors of North Utica, La Salle, Peru and Spring Valley appeared at the 2026 State of the Cities Luncheon to provide residents.

A man in Mendota was shot in the leg early Friday. The injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.

Mendota's Esten Otero hit two homers in a win, the Putnam County baseball and softball teams had walkoff wins and more in Thursday's NewsTribune roundup.

The Marquette baseball team defeated Henry-Senachwine to improve to 18-0 this season on Thursday while the Seneca softball team rolled past Woodland/Flanagan-Cornell to move to 20-0 on the campaign. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

One swing of the bat by Braden Shaw lifted Princeton to a 2-1 win over Erie-Prophetstown in Three Rivers East battle Thursday in Princeton. But it took a throw to home by second baseman Hunter Spiegel and game-ending strikeout by reliever Jack Oester to finish off the Tiger win

Ceyton Urbanski hit a single to score Adan Pantoja in the bottom of the seventh inning to give La Salle-Peru a 5-4 victory over Sycamore in an Interstate 8 Conference game Thursday.

The Princeton Youth Football League is rallying around one of their own. PYFL is holding fund-raisers in support of coach Rob Comer and his family, who lost their Princeton home to a house fire on Wednesday afternoon.

Ottawa's Kennedy Kane gave up a home run to the first batter she faced Thursday, but she and reliever Addie Russell didn't give up anything else as the Pirates defeated the host Bulldogs 5-1.