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POSSIBLE SYNTH BUST IN BENTON FRIDAY
FRANKLIN CO.—The Smoke Break, a popular tobacconist store at 610 West Main in Benton, was shut down yesterday afternoon (08.09.13) due to what authorities were calling a “search” as part of an “ongoing...
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The Unfortunate Devolution of Shakedown Street
The ‘drug bridge’ at The Gathering of the Juggalos Drug Bridge? You must be clowning me… So nobody ever told you baby… How it was gonna be. ~Estranged, Guns N’ Roses Well, it might be time to...
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Mount Carmel’s Ag Days ~ August 7-10, 2013
Market Street sees more action during Ag Days than it does all year. Mount Carmel — Every summer, just before school starts, Mount Carmel breathes a little bit of life into a couple of otherwise...
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MAN WHO DIED AT GATHERING EVENT IDENTIFIED
HARDIN CO.—Jessica Cullum, Hardin County Coroner, has released the name of the man who was found deceased in a tent yesterday afternoon at The Gathering of the Juggalos. Cullum identified 24-year-old...
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ILLEGALLY USING HUMAN BODY PARTS FOR NY POLICE DOG TRAINING??
NEW YORK—New York police are getting more out of hand in how they do their work to “serve and protect” citizens. A coroner in Niagara County, in western New York allegedly took a piece of Roger Dunn’s...
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Obama signs bill giving himself lifetime Secret Service protection
Alex Pappas dailycaller.com August, 10, 2013 President Barack Obama signed a bill into law on Thursday guaranteeing himself Secret Service protection for the rest of his life. White...
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It’s getting WORSE…New Nanotech Technology
NATIONAL—New Nanotech technology is now able to track, disrupt and even self-destruct firearms that is known as a micro-electromechanical system (MEMS), which utilizes tiny devices that are implanted...
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Mt. Carmel Hospital Director’s medical licenses suspended indefinitely
WABASH CO.—Not even a year after being appointed Director of the Emergency Department at Mt. Carmel’s Wabash General Hospital, Dr. Miriam Baumgart’s physician, surgeon, and controlled substance...
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ATTENDEE WOUNDED AS THE GATHERING WRAPS UP
HARDIN CO.—As The Gathering of the Juggalos is wrapping up tonight, an attendee has suffered a pretty serious head wound. We’re getting in very limited and restricted reports, but about 9:30, it was...
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WOMAN AT CENTER OF INVESTIGATION CHARGED
HARDIN CO.– According to police sources, a woman at the center of a controversy involving the apparent suicide of the Elizabethtown first chief Tim Dillard and state’s attorney Tara Wallace has been...
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New York City on the verge of BANNING E-Cigarettes???
New York City, NY—The following are snap shots of a local law in NYC that has been enacted by the city council, who are wanting to amend the administrative code of New York, to raise the sales age of...
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Things we get in the mail; in particular, from DOC inmates
They’re not all that bad, they’re just serving their sentence for their crimes. Evidence: this… And here’s the message…all because his mom suffers the same condition Ang does, Multiple Sclerosis:...
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It’s far from easy & so close to me…
To be honest with you readers, and in an effort to be honest with myself, when the job you love is often to report stories about criminals and drug addicts getting busted day-in and day-out, I now...
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PROSECUTOR TO HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE ON MOLLY YOUNG CASE
DUQUOIN—We’ve received a press release from Illinois State Police District 13 in DuQuoin, as issued by Jackson County State’s Attorney Mike Carr. The release is in regards to the investigation into the...
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Disgraced, sex offending chief deputy’s lawsuit full of holes; Motion to...
SALINE CO.— Todd Fort, the disgraced former Saline County chief deputy and school board president who used his positions of authority to lure at least one unsuspecting teenage girl into a sexual...
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Death of an inspiring teen brought community together
HARDIN CO.— A terrible tragedy that claimed a young man’s life in Cave-In-Rock July 31 has brought the community together in ways few expected. “We have always pulled together down here in Hardin...
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‘SUICIDE’ QUESTIONED
This was the scene on the hill in Elizabethtown Tuesday, July 24, 2013 at about 7:35 p.m., after local authorities and Illinois State Police cordoned off Pearl Street where the home of the...
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State law doesn’t apply in Edgar Co.
EDGAR CO.— Battle lines have been drawn in Edgar County with sheriff Ed Motley on one side and the county board and the rest of the good old boys on the other. The final straw came when the county lost...
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Retaliation in dog case begins
ELDORADO—The situation of an Eldorado family’s pet dog being killed by the neighbor’s pet dog has escalated to the point that harassment and intimidation has begun, this under the acknowledgement...
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Attorney defies judge’s order in OP
RICHLAND CO.—A former state’s attorney has defied an order from the bench issued last year and has filed a motion attempting to stop Disclosure from publishing factual court accounts, calling them...
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