Former Porn Star Runs For School Board
The Huffington Post | By Joseph Erbentraut Posted: 06/17/2014 3:27 pm EDT Updated: 06/17/2014 3:59 pm EDT A former adult film actor and producer is now running for school board of the same district he...
View ArticleFEDERAL COURT CASE FINDS ITS WAY TO WHITE COUNTY
There are a lot of reasons for businesses to have to take other businesses to court. Non-payment of bills is chief amongst those reasons. However, it’s not often that they end up in federal court. The...
View ArticleSenate confirms second woman to federal bench in Southern District of Illinois
By Chuck Raasch June 17, 2014 WASHINGTON • The Senate Tuesday confirmed the nomination of Staci Yandle as a federal judge in the Southern District of Illinois, making her what a long-time judicial...
View ArticleIllinois’ Obamacare subsidies trail national averages
By Andrew L. Wang June 18, 2014 Illinois residents who signed up for coverage on the state’s health insurance marketplace on average received less generous premium subsidies than people in most other...
View ArticleMarion football coach identified as victim in fiery crash
JACKSON CO.— A Marion man and SIU assistant football coach has been identified as the individual who perished in a fiery crash Monday, June 9. Cory Lee Warren According to officials, Cory Lee Warren,...
View ArticleHOW DO ILLINOIS’ ACT SCORES STACK UP WITH OTHER STATES IN THE UNION?
BRENDAN BOND JUN 18, 2014 Reboot Illinois Illinois is one of a handful of states in the country where all public school 11th graders are tested with the ACT. So how do Illinois’ ACT scores compare to...
View ArticleLATEST DIATRIBE REGARDING CHRISSY WILLIAMS IS A STUDY IN CONTRADICTION
Tami Jackson in green, talking to the media on the levee of the Ohio River in Rosiclare March 20, 2014. From the latest out of Tami Jackson’s keyboard, you’d think that she’s regretting ever having...
View ArticleWANT A PAY RAISE? FOLLOW THESE 10 RULES
KEVIN HOFFMAN JUN 17, 2014 Reboot IllinoisEven if you live within your means and make decent money, it’s probably safe to say no one has ever rejected a pay raise. The tricky part is how to go about...
View ArticleCOUNTY BOARD CLOSER TO ADMITTING THERE’S A FINANCIAL CRISIS LOOMING
We’ve been reporting on the financial crisis the Saline County Board is facing for several months now. And they’re no closer to a solution…and in fact, things are more dire than ever at this point. But...
View ArticleIllinois couple sentenced for money laundering, fraud
By Teresa Auch Schultz June 17, 2014 6:30PM Updated: June 18, 2014 2:02AM Despite continuing to point the finger at a local family of restaurateurs, an Illinois man will serve more than four years in...
View ArticleIllinois bill would let psychologists prescribe
By Bonnie Miller Rubin and Monique Garcia June 17, 2014 Beth Rom-Rymer, president of the Illinois Psychological Association, said psychologists “took on organized medicine” during a 12-year fight to...
View ArticleWomen’s motorcycle club creating retreat
EDGEWATER, FLA.— A women’s not-for-profit motorcycle club out of Edgewater, Fla., with an international reach, has purchased land off the coast of Florida and is turning it into a retreat of sorts....
View ArticleMILL CREEK PARK DISTRICT MEETS AGAIN TONIGHT IN CLARK COUNTY
….and will there be a resolution to last month’s major issues…? Maybe. Those in the Heartland area have been following the exploits of the Mill Creek Park District, located outside of Marshall in Clark...
View ArticleCOUPLE FROM MURPHYSBORO CHARGED WITH SEXUALLY ABUSING OWN CHILDREN
JACKSON CO., Ill.—A former Murphysboro couple have been charged in Jackson County with sex crimes against their own children. Robert Pleasant Robert Pleasant, 36, and his wife Bethany, 25, have each...
View ArticleVincennes man arrested in connection to a series of fires
C&G Cleaners was one of several fires Beamon allegedly admitted to setting since 2011. (Photo by Joshua Martin) By Sabrina Westfall Hometown News A Vincennes man was arrested in connection with a...
View ArticleTRIBUNE CONTINUES REDISTRICTING REFORM FIGHT; PRECKWINKLE POSTPONES PENSION...
BRENDAN BOND JUN 19, 2014 Reboot IllinoisThe fight between Yes for Independent Maps and the Illinois State Board of Elections over the validity of signatures on the redistricting reform petition...
View ArticleTHIS INFOGRAPHIC SHOWS WHY WE NEED REDISTRICTING REFORM TO END GERRYMANDERING
MATT DIETRICH JUN 18, 2014 Reboot Illinois The creative drawing (some would say gerrymandering) of Illinois General Assembly district maps for political gain has become a once-a-decade tradition in...
View ArticleAND JUST IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING WHAT TINA WILLIAMS IS UP TO LATELY…
…she’s being her usual offensive self. Someone called our attention to her inane rantings on her Facebook page the other day, so we screenshot it because we thought you in Hardin County might get a...
View ArticleSEVEN YEARS AGO TODAY, A YOUNG LADY DIED IN LAWRENCE CO…AND A YOUNG MAN TOOK...
LAWRENCE CO., Ill.—We were reminded today that this is a sad seven-year anniversary of an event that took place in a rural Lawrence County location. Sean McQueen And we thought maybe we could reproduce...
View ArticleNightly NewsCap: A slow day in Disclosuria, but we’ve got what there is in AUDIO
Here’s Lyndi, reporting on a few of the headlines from around the readership area for the evening of Thursday, June 19, 2014! Topics covered include: a man has been arrested for AC unit thefts in...
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