Conservation police, as well as state troopers, responded after reports of a boat fire on the Illinois River just before 4:30 p.m. at the Spring Brook Marina in LaSalle County, according to ...

KAMPSVILLE – A Pearl, Illinois, man drowned Monday when he went into the Illinois River at Kampsville to retrieve a boat after a rope snapped. Roger M. Hatcher, 89, of Pearl was pronounced dead ...

PEORIA — Emergency personnel doing a welfare check on a boat anchored in the Illinois River on Wednesday discovered seven emaciated dogs confined to crates inside the boat cabin.