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Three deputies were shot Wednesday when they breached a home after an hours-long standoff with an armed person near Dixon, Illinois, local officials say. The suspect was also shot and injured. The incident began at around 8:39 a.m. on Wednesday when a woman from the 400 block of Wild Rice Lane called the sheriff’s office, telling them that her adult son was having “suicidal and homicidal ideations.” Wild Rice Lane is close to Lost Lake, in the Lost Nation unincorporated census-designated place, about 7 miles northeast of Dixon. When deputies arrived at the scene at 9:05 a.m., they were told by…

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