The October 2014 edition of Disclosure is now on stands in all locations, and it’s already one of the hottest issues yet this year. To show you WHY, we give you a glimpse of what’s in this issue (because you need to remember: what’s here on the website on a daily basis is NOT what’s in the print version; that’s a whole different set of articles you won’t get anywhere else!) …and that glimpse comes from THIS MONTH’S PRINT HEADLINES.

Print headlines are just that: the headlines, with a brief synopsis of what’s in each article appearing in the print version and right here at the e-Edition. In fact, we provide a direct link to each article here on the e-Edition so that if you have an online membership, you can click and go right to the article to read it. There are now two ways you can access the e-Edition online: A full month of access for $5.99, or a day pass for $2.99. Currently we’re still working on archives; once those are complete, they’ll be a separate category altogether, so if you want to read a full two years’ worth of articles, get that month’s access and get to reading!

Print headlines are broken up into sections: Front page, back page (a second front page), pages 2/3, Egypt, Heartland, Central, and Op-Ed. So now, without further ado, here are THIS MONTH’S PRINT HEADLINES!

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Brandi Frederick

LAWRENCE CO.—Stalked by pill-heads after tragic upstate auto accident: Our lead story comes out of Sumner, where a tragic situation has occurred with a 25-year-old resident there, Brandi Frederick. Find out just what it is—and how serious it is for Frederick herself—by reading this article.

Josh Capps

GIBSON CO., Ind./SALINE CO., Ill.—Carnies injure local man in Indiana fight: An Eldorado man was seriously injured in mid-September while working in Princeton.

SALINE CO. (by way of McCracken Co., Ky.)—Kentucky hooker sting, identity confusion: The FULL story about what happened to Harrisburg resident Devin Hankins, including input from McCracken County, Ky., as promised in the initial coverage of it.

GALLATIN CO.—Former prosecutor and boyfriend in dueling OPs: Things have been unnervingly quiet in Gallatin County, so when they get UNquiet, seems like they do so in a big way…like THIS article shows.

BACK PAGE

MARION—Suspicious fire surrounded by silence: The bizarre fire that possibly took the life of a Marion woman that authorities are being kept strangely silent about is examined here.

SALINE CO.—Open Meetings Act suit settled: Our own Ang finalizes things with Cottage Township, to the equanimity of all…except maybe those in the Cottage Township area, who seemingly cannot defeat Peabody Coal wrecking their existence.

EFFINGHAM CO.—Altercation in Altamont brings coroner in question: A strange series of events involving a retired DOC employee and a coroner’s office employee…as well as Effingham County coroner Duane Guffey himself.

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WILLIAMSON CO.—Zanotti takes on new crim cases: The crim rundown in Williamson County for the past three weeks, with new state’s attorney Brandon Zanotti’s management of them.

FEATURE—I spy: The love/hate relationship with your cell phone might now be turning to FEAR: An amazing piece written by our tech guy about the technology out there that can compromise YOUR privacy, completely without you knowing it.

EGYPT

HARDIN CO.—County board caves under threat of charges from state’s attorney: It wasn’t a court case, so it was something Tara Wallace could win…and she did. She’s successfully scared the county board into booting the abstract office from the courthouse.

These three women were escorted from their place of employment at the Williamson Co. Circuit Clerk’s office in Marion August 5, 2013; it took more than a year to bring charges. From left, Kelly Trammel, Marsha Sue Davis-Dickinson and Cheryl Cundiff.

WILLIAMSON CO.—Deputy clerks finally charged in Williamson: The thing many waited on for a year finally came to fruition in mid-September. Having covered this in the online version, we opted to give good coverage to it in the print version for our readers who don’t routinely hit the website, as EVERYONE needs to know how this went down.

WILLIAMSON CO.—Harrisburg man charged in armed robbery: The saga of Roman Cusic Moore and his alleged activities in the city of Marion, specifically, Small’s Market.

SALINE CO.—IMRF conundrum and Peabody donation make for contentious county board meeting: Things just get weirder and weirder for the Saline County board…and the sad fact is, we don’t envy them one bit. It’s hard to run a county in Illinois these days. Read this article to find out just how difficult that task really is.

SALINE CO.—“Slobbering” woman taken into custody after crash: Allegedly huffing…it’s just not something you want to do if you don’t want to be caught drooling in public.

SALINE CO.—Galatia man jailed after driving through playground: Incident in Galatia that could’ve been a LOT worse…not that it isn’t bad enough.

HARDIN CO.—Seller and seller charged with unlawful gun deal: Hardin County questionable activities, all of it likely way over Tara Wallace’s head.

The increasingly-more-bizarre-acting Tina Williams, left, and her child Alyse, now a protected person

HARDIN CO.—Husband of disturbed Hardin woman takes out OP on behalf of his daughter: Another Tara Wallace failure, as people have been taking out OPs against Tina Williams and her very public verbal assaults on people for YEARS now as she descends further into questionable mental status.

SALINE CO.—Shoeless woman from Marion jailed for fighting with police: There are some strange goings-on in the crim reports this month. This is one of them.

SALINE CO.—Eldorado convicted felon charged with Child Porn: Sex crime report from Saline County.

HARRISBURG—New water billing system forecast to save money for Harrisburg residents: Not like we didn’t have an upgrade two years ago under the Eric Gregg administration; now, we’ve got another upgrade…and our water bills continue to go up and up.

WILLIAMSON CO.—Tax favors? Corruption continues in assessment of properties in Williamson, Part 5: Ongoing coverage of what will probably result in the next round of mass arrests of public officials in Williamson County.

SALINE CO.—Saline County thefts include booze, Play Station and saddles: The SalCo crimes against property report.

GALLATIN CO. (Equality)—Lawsuit between Village of Equality and resident Don Prince over culvert heats up: We first covered problems that an Equality resident was having with flooding and drainage in 2011; now see what all that mess for Don Prince has come to in this article.

GALLATIN CO. (Ridgway)—Village sued for fall; asks for injured woman to pay THEM: Another lawsuit in GallCo, with obnoxious attorney Joe Bleyer right in the middle of it.

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FEATURE: SIRIS: Resurgence of vinyl in the digital age: After CDs, MP3s, and other forms of digital music for the past 25 or so years, the vinyl record is making a comeback…and what a big comeback it is in southern Illinois!

HEARTLAND

And here’s Jan….hatin on topix these days.

EDGAR/COOK COs.—Toxic topix: Woman who encourages others to attack the truth sues website: Jan Burno, antagonist during the murder trial of her nephew Terry Payton, never really went away as far as the obscene forum topix…until her attorney likely told her to. See what ol Jan has done that’s given those of us who’ve been slandered on topix, for real, some footing in our search to root out public officials and others who use that forum to harass and negatively impact innocent people. Jan may or may not be among that latter group…but now, we can sure as hell find out.

JASPER CO.—Violence, deceptive practice and drugs charged in Jasper: The Jasper County crim report for the past couple of weeks.

Why, Delbert….? just…why?

EFFINGHAM CO.—Effingham school board president makes ass of himself at Republican fundraiser dinner: Note to Delbert Soltwedel: Just because you CAN, doesn’t mean you SHOULD.

EDGAR CO.—Concern voiced over another Patrick on the Edgar Co. Board: They got rid of Chris Patrick. Now, there’s another Patrick on the board. Read this article to find out the ramifications of that.

CLARK CO.–ISP seeks public’s assistance on ID of Jane Doe: The facial deconstructionist at ISP is once again doing some work trying to recreate the face of the gal whose body was found off the interstate at Casey, Illinois, a year ago. One of the bodies, anyway.

EDGAR CO.—Anonymous accusations sent to disparage sheriff prior to election; state police involved: Dee Burgin again? Maybe. At this point, he probably just needs to hang it up, as everybody in three counties can see he’s transparent as hell and can’t get it right about Edgar County Sheriff Ed Motley anyway.

CENTRAL

CLAY CO.—Man misidentified in mainstream media reports leads Clay County criminal blotter: WHY would mainstream media continue to misidentify Tim Highsmith? That’s the question this article poses…read it and see if YOU can figure it out, and give us your input on it.

LAWRENCE CO.—Versions of stories about Bridgeport meth bust don’t jive: When we first covered this meth bust, we had only snippets of information. Now, we are seeing some things that just don’t add up…and we’re seriously wondering just how much of this has to do with Bridgeport’s “police chief,” Scott Murray.

RICHLAND CO.—Former Paris woman leads Richland drug report: LOTS of drug activity in Richland County these past three weeks, being cleaned up with great aplomb by those in charge…and now, hopefully, some of the bigger players might get ratted out to authorities, and the scourge we have to face there will maybe start being brought under control.

WHITE CO.—Repeat offender facing Child Endangerment: White County crim roundup features this Carmi dude who has really, really screwed up.

HAMILTON CO.—Stolen lawnmower, livestock running at large and violence featured in Hamilton crime report: It’s an all-around assortment of alleged criminal activity in HamCo, all rolled up into one big story.

RICHLAND CO.—Olney man with a trio of arrests this month alone leads police blotter: One thing’s for certain: Olney PD has had a busy past several weeks!…courtesy this guy.

WABASH CO.—$50,000 cash bond set in sex case: Child porn is now on the docket in Wabash County; see who caught the charge and how by reading this article.

WHITE CO.—Violence report out of White County shows increase in charges and activity: Authorities in White County have been doing double-duty in tending to crimes against persons in their jurisdiction. This tells all about it, and includes some convictions as well.

CLAY CO.—Meth arrests in Clay Co.: Just like the headline says…meth arrests for the past few weeks in Clay County.

LAWRENCE CO.—Security guard terminated from employment: Full coverage of the follow up, thus far, on the situation with Mike Rich in Lawrence County, who was on the front page last month.

WABASH CO.—Heroin and burglary charged in Wabash: In combining the drug crims as well as crimes against property in Wabash County, the dope charges sprung out front and center, as heroin was allegedly found during one dope bust. This is a creeping menace in southern Illinois and we anticipate things will only get worse with it.

LAWRENCE CO.—Meth production leads Lawrence crime report: And seriously…in what issue DOESN’T meth production lead the Lawrence crim report?

WABASH CO.—Recorded argument lands ex in jail: An enterprising gal in Mt. Carmel had the presence of mind to record her ex allegedly issuing

WHITE CO.—Charge filed in the case of WOVSED employee’s alleged theft: As promised, the followup to last month’s presentation about Harrisburg resident Katie Collins and what she’s charged with in White.

OP-ED

COLUMNS

SURLY & UNCOOPERATIVE (Jack) Here we go AGAIN with the fraudulent OPs
ICY (Ang): Nature, losing the battle but winning the war
MINKUS INK (Brian): Congrats, taxpayer! You are paying for a “special” mountain resort and more
REDHEAD RAMPAGE (Lyndi): And the best thing about October is….

VOICE OF THE PEOPLE (Letters)

BACK OVER YOUR TALES (from the October 2009 edition)…Paul McSparin, Equality Township, Turtle Miller, Justin Brooks, Ed Black, Andy Brock, Bradley McCulley, Richard Foster, Adam Brocker, Robert Wilson and Aydan Wang are all featured in this big issue from five years ago!