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LAISSEZ LE BON TEMP ROULER!!
This is why we can never lose those pesky five extra pounds this time of year: KING CAKE FROM ROUSES!!! Yep, my dear little ol auntie from Louisiana ordered me another King Cake this year, and this...
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Housekeeping: Is Deangelo Cowper ALWAYS this whiny?
SALINE CO.—Here’s another story that didn’t make it into this issue due to space restraints: A Harrisburg felon currently sitting in Illinois’ Department of Corrections on a theft charge from 2003 is...
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RICKY TURNER ENTERS GUILTY PLEA IN MURDER, SEXUAL ASSAULT CASES
Richard Turner II SALINE CO.—The man who murdered four-year-old Jessika James in June of 2009 is going to prison for a long time…but, many feel, not long enough. Having the best efforts of Morgan...
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Support your local county board candidate…or, THIS one!!
Listen up, Disclosure fans! If there isn’t a local county board candidate you can get behind in YOUR county, why not get behind SOMEONE ELSE’S county board candidate….like THIS one: Our own...
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ILLINOIS STATE POLICE, INVESTIGATOR, SUED OVER TARGETING ONE OF THEIR OWN
U.S. DISTRICT COURT, EAST ST. LOUIS—A story we broke a year ago has come to fruition in the form of a lawsuit against the State of Illinois, the entire Illinois State Police agency and two of its...
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UPDATE: Why do people do this? Or, conversely…does he know something DOC...
UPDATE CONFIRMATION—FORT IS BEING RELEASED TOMORROW, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17. We received communication that according to Fort’s family, DOC policy is that releasees scheduled to get out on a date that...
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Fort having a hard way to go as far as living arrangements?
SALINE CO.—While traveling all over Jackson, Williamson and Saline counties today, we’ve heard from one end to the other that Todd Fort, released today (Feb. 17, 2012), is having a hard time finding a...
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Super tax villain of the year!!
HUTSONVILLE—From the website of Adam Andrzejewski For the Good of Illinois comes the following: QUESTION: Why isn’t Roger Eddy disclosing his double-dipping? ANSWER: Who knows, but he...
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Under pressure? Cassandra actually files charges against alleged thief
WABASH CO.—While we’re still waiting on a mugshot, we’ve learned that alleged public funds thief Ericka Whittler, of Mt. Carmel and originally of Carmi, has actually been charged with a crime for her...
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AWESOME work by the Southern Illinoisan staff!
WEST FRANKFORT—In answer to the question, “Who’s idiot enough to rob a bank these days?” comes the answer in the form of this story emerging from West Frankfort. While we may be uber critical of the...
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Former city treasurer apprehended this afternoon
WABASH CO.—Contrary to published reports yesterday and earlier this morning, former Mt. Carmel city treasurer Ericka Whittler has been arrested and booked in Wabash County—this afternoon. Here’s her...
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Hot seat? It’s been LUKEWARM up to THIS point
EDGAR CO.—One of the latest attempts at issuing threats to shut down Disclosure comes from one of the latest counties we’ve come to cover. It’s a phenomenon we’ve seen repeatedly over the past nine...
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AS PROMISED: Letters from the (apparently) clinically insane
We get a LOT of correspondence around these here parts. Some of it makes it into print, most of it does not, primarily because it’s not signed and we can’t verify much of it, even about public...
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Too-long-in-office pol gets offer after being exposed as double-dipper
Roger Eddy, from his 109th District Representative website HUTSONVILLE—State Representative for the 109th, Roger Eddy, “suspended his campaign” for the office in the newly-redrawn 110th district...
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BIZARRE situation with sex offense victim
SALINE CO.—This post is going to piss off a certain segment of our readers, and for that I apologize. But I can’t help it….because we’ve come across this before, and it gets more disturbing every time...
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Housekeeping: And speaking of perverts, here’s one from North Counties…
Here’s one that didn’t make it into the February/March 2012 print version on stands now: U.S. DISTRICT COURT, BENTON—A man from Great Britain living in Vincennes, Ind., was sentenced late last month...
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WE ARE EN ROUTE TO HARRISBURG, STRUCK BY A TORNADO 3 HOURS AGO
We had half a day off, with interviews scheduled only for this evening, so we slept in. The one damn day we chose to do it. Harrisburg was struck by a tornado this morning in the pre-dawn hours; we’re...
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FIRST PICS COMING IN FROM HARRISBURG TORNADO
This one from a Mike Belcher, who posted it on Ang’s Facebook wall: Mike Belcher photo We don’t know exactly where this is in Walmart. We are hearing that Harrisburg cop David Morris is being...
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Funeral director is just fine after Harrisburg tornado
We’ve received word from family that funeral director Randy Reed—who also used to the be coroner in Saline County—is just fine, and reports of his death in the Harrisburg tornado this morning are...
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VIDEOS OF STORM DAMAGE, GASKIN CITY
HARRISBURG—Here’s what we have so far: https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=335866936449069 https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=335888656446897 Links only; we’re having problems with...
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