• City clarifies electric supplier situation 

• Notice to the elderly and persons with disabilities and absentee and grace period voting for the November 4, 2014 General Election

• Logan Mason Public Transportation receives Light Duty Vehicle

• Second Request
  UOC seeks candidates for board of directors for new organization 

• Weather Alert
  More storms forecasted through Thursday

• Consumer Alert!
  MADIGAN: HANG UP ON PHONY GOVERNMENT SCAMS
  Attorney General Warns Phone Scammers Posing as Government Officials Attempt to Con Illinois Residents Into Sending Money

• University of Illinois Extension News

  • Linking pricing and profitability for producers

  • Upcoming Agricultural events
    Sept. 2 -  Legal issues workshop, Sept. 4 - 2014 Pumpkin Field Day, Oct. 1 - Farmer Grant Writing Workshop

• Beginning Blacksmith Class offered at Sugar Grove Nature Center
  Registration deadline Sept. 5th

Local

Politics, Government & Elections

Obama says does not yet have military strategy for Islamic State

U.S. President Barack Obama addresses reporters in the White House Press Briefing Room ahead of a meeting with his national security council in Washington, August 28, 2014. REUTERS/Larry Downing

• Obama signals timing of new immigration measures in question

• Pentagon's relatively small Iraq costs may jump with escalation: analysts

• California passes 'yes-means-yes' campus sexual assault bill

• Toy weapons won't look like real ones under California bill

• California governor considers allowing gender identity on death certificates

• California Senate approves bill requiring oil industry to detail water use

• Detroit bankruptcy judge tosses hold-out creditor's charges

• Florida Democrats rally around Charlie Crist for governor

International

Separatists say will allow 'trapped' Ukrainian forces to withdraw

Pro-Russian separatists walk at a destroyed war memorial on Savur-Mohyla, a hill east of the city of Donetsk, August 28, 2014. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

ODD & Extraordinary

Florida man caught killing, and eating, threatened tortoises

A gopher tortoise moves through freshly sprouted vegetation in this undated handout photo courtesy of Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWC). REUTERS/Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWC)/Handout via Reuters

Science, Technology and the Environment

Scientists solve mystery of moving Death Valley rocks

A trail left by a rock implanted with a motion-activated Global Positioning System (GPS) unit is seen in the so-called Racetrack Playa of California's Death Valley in this undated handout photo provided by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. REUTERS/Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego/Handout via Reuters