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DOUBLE FATALITY IN SINGLE-VEHICLE WRECK
HARDIN CO.—A single-vehicle accident in Hardin County this morning has left a father and daughter dead. According to information still coming in, Cynthia Renfroe, 25, and her father, Terry Dutton, 49,...
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Teen okay in collision on U.S. 50; others not so fortunate: UPDATE
UPDATE 6:45 p.m. We’re hearing that Aumiller’s passenger, whose identity we don’t have yet, has been air-evac’d out of the area with significant head trauma. The woman in the passenger car has also...
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THREE-TERM MAYOR & LONG-TIME CITY CLERK RESIGN
ALBION—Turmoil in the city of Albion has apparently caused a much greater issue than has been being reported in mainstream news, and tonight, it’s resulted in the immediate resignations of a mayor and...
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NEWSBLAST: ALBION CITY COUNCIL SURPRISE
Here’s a newsblast about the Albion City Council meeting, Monday, February 4, 2013 We’ll have MUCH more in the upcoming print version/e-Edition…be sure you get your renewals in!! Lilly Belle Perry,...
View ArticleHIGH-SPEED CAR CHASE ENDS IN A DITCH
UPDATE 11:15 P.M. The driver of the vehicle was taken to Crawford Memorial, being belligerent and combative all the way in the ambulance. He is believed by our sources to be Jason Frederick, although...
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CHURCH DEACON FOUND GUILTY IN BENCH TRIAL
Jay Griggs WABASH CO.—A former Mt. Carmel church deacon is free pending sentencing following a sex charge conviction in a bench trial by Richland County judge Larry Dunn. Jay Griggs, 48, of Mt. Carmel,...
View ArticleTurmoil at Hardin County Schools; seriously in the red
HARDIN CO.—We learned a couple of weeks ago that there was a plan to lay off 11 instructors/staff at Hardin County Schools in Elizabethtown, but the extent of the problem really began to emerge just...
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Emergency stalking order against ISP agent DISMISSED; plenary order upcoming
RICHLAND CO.—In a case that mainstream media is deliberately overlooking because it involves one of their most important sources for spoon-feeding info from ISP, this morning a judge in Richland County...
View ArticleSHOOTING WITH INJURIES IN RICHLAND COUNTY
UPDATE 8 A.M. 02.08.13 A relative of Marcus Adams has contacted us via Facebook to confirm that he was indeed the one shot, and Fletcher is arrested (although there’s no evidence of that yet) in the...
View ArticleHIGHWAY 1 IN OMAHA TEMPORARILY SHUT DOWN
OMAHA—Highway 1 through Omaha has been closed down temporarily as firefighters deal with a fire in the downtown area (about a block off Highway 1). The announcement came from the Saline County...
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ISP, falling down on the job…or are they??
CLAY CO.—We’d like to report to you two major news events that we learned of through people in the area this week, one out of Edgewood earlier in the week, another out of Hord that happened just last...
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SEX OFFENDER BEING SOUGHT IN SALINE COUNTY: UPDATE; IRVIN FOUND
UPDATE 5:30 P.M. MICHAEL IRVIN HAS BEEN FOUND AND TAKEN INTO CUSTODY. MORE AS WE GET IT. Below is the original post. SALINE CO.—Folks in the Carrier Mills and Harrisburg area, and actually throughout...
View ArticleSuperintendent looking at ways of saving his school
HARDIN CO.—An effort is underway to offset the predicament the state has place many small schools in, particularly in downstate Illinois, and stave off any future outcomes at Hardin County Schools in...
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Arrests made in meth lab explosion
SALINE CO.—After months of investigation into a mobile meth lab explosion from last November, it appears that arrests have been made in the case. Roger Combs, 27, of Harrisburg, and Mary Beth...
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Coroner’s inquest slanted; ‘Undetermined’ cause of death
JACKSON CO.—Evidence that was heavily slanted by ISP testimony failed to sway a six-person coroner’s jury into believing that a young woman’s death a year ago in Carbondale was suicide. And the tint...
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Illegal loan activity over ambulance?
EDGAR CO.—A current problem with the Edgar County board chairman is mirroring a past problem with the former ambulance director in the county, Dee Burgin. Burgin, originally of Richland County, was a...
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Resignations stun council
ALBION—Nearly a year’s worth of what appears to be harassment and intimidation directed toward a city official came to an ugly head on Monday, February 4, 2013, and resulted in a walkout of Albion’s...
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Stalemate in cop war before filing of federal civil suit
RICHLAND CO.—A court case in Richland County that’s spanning the scope of the entire Zone 7 investigative district in southern and east-central Illinois is heating up in intensity, and on February 7,...
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Shooting in Richland Co.
RICHLAND CO.—A shooting in the early morning hours of February 7 was still low-key news in Richland County as of press time (February 10), but friends and relatives of the two young men involved in it...
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