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WRECK IN ELDORADO BEING CLEANED UP
ELDORADO—We don’t know much about it, but there were a handful of reports coming in to us at about 9:30 this morning about a wreck in the vicinity of Casey’s in Eldorado. The two three-vehicle...
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DeRYKE HEARING TODAY MOVED TO AFTERNOON
EFFINGHAM CO.—We’ve been notified by Effingham County court officials that the hearing previously scheduled today for this morning in Justin DeRyke’s case has been moved to this afternoon. Justin...
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GUILTY PLEA ENTERED IN RESIDENTIAL BURGLARY
EDWARDS CO., Ill.—Edwards County State’s Attorney Mike Valentine has announced sentencing for an Albion teen convicted of Residential Burglary. Robert Pritchard, 18, was sentenced yesterday to six...
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16 years for sex assault of woman who stopped abuse of 10-year-old girl
Staff report 12:35 a.m. CDT, March 18, 2014 Tribune An Elgin man serving time on a domestic battery charge was sentenced Monday to 16 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a...
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JUSTIN DeRYKE ENTERS GUILTY PLEA IN DEATH OF WILLOW LONG
EFFINGHAM CO., Ill.—A guilty plea to the stabbing death of Willow Long last September has been entered in her uncle’s First Degree Murder case. This location is found at a borrow pit about two miles to...
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California man arrested near Canadian border on terror charges
By Leslie Holland updated 5:28 PM EDT, Mon March 17, 2014(CNN) – A California man was arrested on terror charges early Monday morning near the Canadian border, according to the Department of Justice.In...
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Unemployment rates fell in 43 U.S. states in January
CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER AP March 18,2014 STL In this Feb. 6 2014 photo, Margarita Sanchez, 72, of Hollywood, Fla., front, listens during a job search workshop at WorkForce One in Davie, Fla. The...
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ANOTHER PRISON SENTENCE HANDED DOWN IN EDWARDS COUNTY
EDWARDS CO., Ill.—Today was a busy court day in Edwards, with a sentencing on a revocation petition entered in the case of Dana Perry. Perry, 43, was charged in 2009 with a Burglary and put on 30...
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Suspected meth lab uncovered in Taylorville
Posted Mar. 18, 2014 @ 12:15 am SJ-R Taylorville police uncovered a suspected methamphetamine lab while searching a home in the 500 block of South Webster Street Saturday. Pamela Muffick, 42, Julie...
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Health care sign-ups hit 5M mark
Associated Press March 17, 2014 STL WASHINGTON • The Obama administration says more than 5 million people have signed up for private health insurance under the new health care law. That still leaves...
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ELECTION RETURNS, EDGAR CO.: BEST NEWS WE’VE HAD ALL NIGHT
EDGAR CO., Ill.—Saving the best for last this evening, here’s the report on the sheriff’s race in Edgar County up in the Heartland. Ed Motley Ed Motley, despite all the political wrangling, filth slung...
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St. Louis teen charged after baby is found dead in trash bin
By Valerie Schremp Hahn March 19, 2014 STL ST. LOUIS • A teenager from the O’Fallon neighborhood in north St. Louis was charged Tuesday with abandonment of a corpse, a felony, after police say she gave...
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Michigan Teacher Gives Fifth-Graders Non-Alcoholic Beer
AP HuffingtonPost Posted: 03/18/2014 11:51 am EDT Updated: 03/18/2014 11:59 am EDT LINDEN, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan teacher made a poor choice by giving non-alcoholic beer to a class of fifth graders in...
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Attorney General calls for faster fix for radioactive West Lake Landfill
By Blythe Bernhard March 19, 2014 STL Missouri’s attorney general wants quicker action to keep an underground fire in the Bridgeton Landfill from reaching radioactive material in the adjacent West Lake...
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PALESTINE OFFICER ARRESTED ON DOMESTIC BATTERY
Josh Green, when he was a Lawrence County deputy PALESTINE, Ill.—Jeff Besing, police chief of the village of Palestine in eastern Crawford County, has issued the following press release: At approx....
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TOWN PEST GETS A WHOPPING 27 VOTES FOR SHERIFF
RICHLAND CO., Ill.—Richland County’s/Olney’s perpetual candidate, Brian James O’Neill II (deux, junior, the second, et al), more than doubled his usual 11 votes in yesterday’s election. And we...
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PEEWEE’S BIG ADVENTURE: BID FOR COUNTY BOARD FALLS FLAT
LAWRENCE CO., Ill.—While the voter turnout was dismal in Lawrence and the Dems helped the Republicans shoot themselves in the foot, the election in that county had its amusing properties too. The...
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PUBLIC INPUT ON SALINE’S ROCKY BRANCH ROAD HELD IN MARION
WILLIAMSON/SALINE COs., Ill.— Today was the last day for hearings regarding impact that a mining expansion in the Cottage Township area/Rocky Branch Road in Saline County has had on residents. A...
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INFORMATION BEHIND HERRIN GIRL’S DISAPPEARANCE OVER THE WEEKEND
WILLIAMSON CO., Ill.—As promised, here’s what we know of the backstory regarding the disappearance of a Herrin girl, Jordann Danielle Robinson, the details of which were learned upon Jordann making...
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STABBING ALLEGED IN MONDAY NIGHT INCIDENT; ONE MAN BEING HELD
HARRISBURG—A Stonefort-area man is in custody this evening at the Saline County Detention Center after a bizarre incident Monday night in Harrisburg. Nathan Reeder, Saline County Detention Center...
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