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At least 17 killed as tornadoes rip through Arkansas, Oklahoma
Suzi ParkerReuters 4:32 a.m. CDT, April 28, 2014LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) – Tornadoes ripped through the south-central United States on Sunday, killing at least 17 people in Arkansas and Oklahoma...
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Sharlene Simon, Driver Who Struck And Killed Teen Cyclist Brandon Majewski,...
The Huffington Post | by Jade Walker Posted: 04/27/2014 11:04 pm EDT Updated: 04/27/2014 11:59 pm EDT Who’s the real victim: the teen cyclist who was struck and killed in a crash or the motorist who...
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READ THE LEAD: Developments in the case of murdered Ed Hataway?
Among the unsolved murders in Olney, Illinois (which now include Jaimee Rupe in 2004 and Joe Galyean just this year) is the 2012 case of Ed Hataway. Hataway, age 61 at the time of his disappearance in...
View ArticleHarrisburg Fire Truck overturned, shut down portion of I-55 this afternoon
Saline County — Interstate 55 was partially shut down today when a Harrisburg Fire Truck overturned in an accident. According to reports made to Disclosure, the Harrisburg Fire Department’s ladder...
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Elected officials say it’s time for Illinois to move toward legalizing marijuana
Posted by Mick Dumke 04.27.14 at 07:28 PM Cook County commissioner John Fritchey wants Illinois officials to start creating a regulatory framework for legalizing marijuana. Legalize it. At the very...
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MULTIPLE DRUG, WEAPON COUNTS FILED AGAINST ALBION MAN
EDWARDS CO., Ill.—An Albion man is facing significant charges in court in Edwards County. Bradley Haggard, 52, was charged April 24 with four counts following an April 22 incident wherein it’s been...
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LAWRENCEVILLE RADIO STATION MANAGER DIES
LAWRENCE CO., Ill.—The station manager of Lawrence County’s only radio station died yesterday in Evansville. S. Kent Lankford, from Emmons-Macey & Steffey obituary announcement S. Kent Lankford,...
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Shocking Number Of Innocent People Sentenced To Death, Study Finds
By Michael McLaughlin Posted: 04/28/2014 7:41 pm EDT Updated: 04/28/2014 7:59 pm EDT More than 4 percent of inmates sentenced to death in the United States are probably innocent, according to a study...
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READ THE LEAD: The problems within ISP compound when it comes to one lil guy…
Why does the Illinois State Police keep investigator Rick White on the payroll? Rick White That’s the question so many people are asking these days. With his laissez-faire attitude toward how exactly...
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Is Illinois’ Texting And Driving Crackdown Working?
By Lisa Parker Tuesday, Apr 29, 2014 Updated 12:21 AM CDT It was a day like any other for Reggie Shaw. The then 19-year old Utah man was driving to work, with one hand on the wheel and the other on...
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Former Illinois state representative facing federal child porn charges
Posted: Apr 28, 2014 4:07 PM CDT Updated: Apr 28, 2014 9:18 PM CDT CHICAGO (Sun-Times Media Wire) - Former state Rep. Keith Farnham traded child pornography online — and even boasted that he’d molested...
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Top cop: Fight over boy led girl to kill another girl, 14
By Deanese Williams-Harris Meredith Rodriguez Tribune reporters 11:42 a.m. CDT, April 29, 2014 A 14-year-old girl shot and killed another 14-year-old girl because of an argument over a boy, Chicago...
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Snowden Retained Expert in Espionage Act Defense
By CHARLIE SAVAGE and MATT APUZZO APRIL 28, 2014 Plato Cacheris in 2001. Officials say Mr. Cacheris is working on a plea deal for Edward Snowden, the accused leaker. Credit Manny Ceneta/Agence...
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DUI CITATION ISSUED IN SINGLE-VEHICLE CRASH
WHITE CO., Ill.—An Enfield woman was injured this morning in a single-vehicle car crash on Illinois Route 14. The crash happened at 10:41 a.m. this morning (Tuesday, April 29) on 14 a quarter-mile east...
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Winds cause Illinois freight train derailment
www.bnd.com The Associated Press Posted on April 29, 2014 Derailment recovery workers maneuver equipment to the scene Tuesday, April 29,2014, of a train derailment near Laura, Ill. in northwestern...
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Nightly NewsCap: Headlines from around the area in AUDIO!
Here’s Lyndi, rounding up the local headlines for not only the past 24 hours but also pre-weekend and last night (issues STILL with lightning strikes precluded the ‘cap) in the Disclosure readership...
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‘He looked like he was heading into war’: Georgia FedEx gunman wounded 6 with...
BY JOE KEMP , BILL HUTCHINSON NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Published: Tuesday, April 29, 2014, 7:39 AM Updated: Tuesday, April 29, 2014, 11:01 PM A Cobb County police officer escorts a worker out of the FedEx...
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Illinois Senate adjourns without vote on tax plan
BY JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer April 29, 2014 SPRINGFIELD, ILL. — An effort to let Illinois voters consider a proposed overhaul of the state’s income tax system died Tuesday in the General...
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READ THE LEAD: The man who’s asking the court to approve visits in prison...
Leave it to Richland County to be the home of some of the weirdest court goings-on in the readership area…and maybe even in the country. Richland is the home of Brian James O’Neill, city pest in the...
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YOU SHOULD SEE ALL THE WORK THAT GOES INTO GETTING CITIZEN QUESTIONS ON YOUR...
04/30/2014 Madeleine Doubek If you care about redistricting reform or term limits, or generally, about more power to the average people in Illinois, then the next few days are big ones for you. Those...
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