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Unlawful use of credit card gets Creal Springs woman 3 years IDOC
WILLIAMSON CO., Ill. - On March 12, 2019, a Williamson County judge sentenced Dusty M. Bozarth, aka Dusty Avery, 33 of Creal Springs, to three and a half years in the Illinois Department of...
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Tentative agenda for Richland County full board meeting Thursday
RICHLAND CO., Ill. - What's being called a "tentative" agenda for the meeting of the full Richland County Board has been issued. If there are any changes, we'll be notified and we'll bring those to...
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Mt. Carmel police have excruciatingly-busy first full week of March
MT. CARMEL, Ill. - It was a busy first full week of March for Mt. Carmel Police, according to this report compiled from pressers from last week and early this week. On Mar. 4, Mt. Carmel Police...
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And now, ISP District 12 Effingham announces February activity
EFFINGHAM CO., Ill. - Illinois State Police District 12 Commander, Captain Cory Ristvedt, today announced activity and enforcement figures for the month of February. Troopers in District 12, which...
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Harrisburg City PD arrests, first week of March
HARRISBURG, Ill. - Here's your Harrisburg arrest report for the time period covering March 5 through 11, 2019...and there's quite a methed-up theme going on. Chad Lamber, 42, was arrested for driving...
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Fifty-something allegedly strikes 20-something, gets trip to jail
PALESTINE, Ill. - An evening incident got a 54-year-old Palestine resident locked up after things allegedly became violent. Palestine Police Chief Jeff Besing said that at approximately 6:15 p.m. this...
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Carmi man turns himself in on warrant
CARMI, Ill. - A Carmi guy made short work of a traffic citation warrant yesterday, turning himself in and posting bond in short order. Carmi police reports show that at 7:48 p.m. last night (Thursday,...
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MT. CARMEL: Authorities ask for public’s help in IDing guy with Olney check
Photo provided MT. CARMEL, Ill. - The Mt. Carmel Police Department is requesting the public's help in identifying the person in the above photo. According to a press release, police would like to...
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It’s National Sunshine Week. You wouldn’t know it in Illinois
ILLINOIS - National Sunshine Week is this week; yep, we're in the tail-end of it. And it's appropriate that we bring it up today, because it almost go away from us...just like it gets away from most...
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Lots of bond posted this past week in Clay County
CLAY CO., Ill. - The amounts of bond being posted in Clay County this past week should be good for what ails the county coffers, at least according to this sheriff's report covering March 7 through...
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Marion City Police kept hopping earlier this week
MARION, Ill. - It's a brief Marion City Police report we have here, but it's only covering a few days...and they were a BUSY few days, as you can see. Charles P. Bruce, 25 of Marion, has been arrested...
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This college admissions bribery thing is the exact reason we don’t cover sports
Figured I'd weigh in on this national disgrace that is the "college admissions cheating scandal" by stating that this is the very reason why we never cover sports and hopefully never will. We all pay...
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His name is Brenton Tarrant. Use it, and quit playing to the sickness
Brenton Tarrant, selfie We've had just about enough of the virtue-signaling going on over the latest distraction in the news cycle. I use that term because when covering the news, you cover NEWS. In...
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Another ‘whoops!’ for work-release; authorities seeking escapee
Kelsi R. Harrison WHITE CO., Ill. - Downstate Illinois counties are definitely having a work-release-escapee problem. No long after two convicted crims were apprehended by White County authorities...
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Sobriety checkpoint nets three drivers this weekend, including one from Marion
March enforcement campaign on dangerous and impaired driving POSEY CO., Ind. - Two individuals from Illinois - one from Marion, one from Norris City - were among three caught up in this weekend's...
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Meth delivery charged after Sunday afternoon traffic stop in Carmi
Diane Strong CARMI, Ill. - A Sunday afternoon traffic stop got a rural Carmi woman hemmed up on a number of meth charges, foremost among them being delivery after considerably more than user amounts...
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Today is the 94th anniversary of the worst tornado on record
Shot of wreckage in DeSoto, Ill., in the days following the 1925 Tri-State Tornado MISSOURI/ILLINOIS/INDIANA - Today, March 18, 2019. marks the 94th anniversary of the worst tornadic disaster in...
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Marion man charged federally with drug offenses
U.S. DISTRICT COURT - Jacob R. Diefenbach of Marion has been charged by indictment with two counts of unlawful delivery of methamphetamine, United States Attorney for the Southern District of...
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Two Jackson County men indicted on federal drug charges
U.S. DISTRICT COURT - Two Jackson County, Illinois, men have been indicted on federal methamphetamine-related charges, Steven D. Weinhoeft, United States Attorney for the Southern District of...
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Flora PD cites driver for passing school bus; other incidents reported
FLORA, Ill. – Flora Police Department caught kind of a break in the action this past week, with a dwindling number of incidents to have to deal with from March 11 to the 16th by comparison to previous...
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