Galva News

Police today identified the 2-year-old girl who drowned in a swimming pool Friday.

33-YEAR OLD JENNIFER JACO OF GALVA HAS ALSO BEEN ARRESTED AND CHARGED IN THE CASE.

A. Courtney Cox, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on June 18, 2009, Luis GALVAN-MENA , age 47, of Fort Worth, Texas, was convicted by a jury of Possession With the Intent to Distribute Cocaine following trial in United States District Court in East St.

A ride honoring one soldier designed to help honor hundreds more who went before.

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville's Summer Showbiz is lighting up the stage once again with three productions, beginning with the hilarious two-person comedy, "Greater Tuna." A popular play with origins dating back to a party skit inspired by a political cartoon, it became one of the most-produced shows in the United States among ...

Ian Galvan of Calgary took the lead in the men's junior event Wednesday in the first day of competition at the Canadian gymnastics championships.

Just when we thought we'd heard enough of reality TV stars Jon and Kate Gosselin, their eight kids, the hoopla over those affairs and the reported breakup of their marriage -- there's now more.

Hard times bring people to the library. Circulation of materials is up 17 percent this year at the Joliet Public Library, a trend that Library Director James Johnston has seen before.

The Knox County Landfill has secured a contract with an ethanol company that should generate revenue of about $200,000 a year.

The next meeting of the Henry-Stark Counties Retired Teachers' Association will be May 13, beginning with a noon luncheon, at McKay's Grill, 327 Market St.

Six fire departments battled an explosion at All-Feed in Galva that sent three to an area hospital.

Six weeks after a 3-year-old Argyle girl fell into a septic tank and died her family is going to Austin, hoping to prevent the same thing from happening to anyone else.

Easygoing and always smiling. A lover of the outdoors. Special. That's how some friends and family members are remembering Army Sgt.

The remains of Sgt. Schuyler B. Patch, 25, of Galva, are scheduled to return to Kewanee on Thursday.

A funeral with full military honors will be held Saturday in Illinois for a soldier formerly of Owasso who was killed Feb.

A member of Blacksburg Town Council died Monday morning after developing a strep infection during an overseas trip earlier this year.

The Illinois National Guard says two of its soldiers died in Afghanistan Tuesday, February, 24th.

A member of the Kewanee National Guard unit serving in Afghanistan was killed Tuesday when the Humvee in which he and three other soldiers were riding was struck by a roadside bomb, near Kandahar, in southern ...

Residents of two homes in the 300 block of East Division Street reported problems with carbon monoxide last week after vandals apparently stuffed plastic into their furnace exhaust pipes.

The Galvan family is searching for "Shy," their pit bull pet that disappeared from their front yard last Friday.