The April-May 2015 edition of Disclosure, with our thirteenth year of publication well underway, has hit the stands throughout southern Illinois, and once again, you are going to be amazed at what we have in store for you in this one!
If you think reading the free side of the website gets you all the news, think again…it’s all different material when it comes to the print product and e-Edition, because the free side of the site is there for breaking news; the paper and e-Edition are for the details no other newspaper, website or media outlet can or will give you. And this issue is FULL of that kind of material. Some of it will probably leave you gasping. Hopefully, most of it will outrage you, and maybe, just maybe (we’re always hoping), it’ll spur you to seek out and ask for change: in the way things are handled by our law enforcement, our court systems, our politics. Because the only people who can bring about meaningful change are THE PEOPLE…and with voter turnout in local elections barely rising out of the upper teens in percentages during the last election…well, we’re gonna have to do better.
Print headlines are provided every issue so you can see what we have in store for you, and so that if you have an online membership to the e-Edition, you can click the link and go right to the story, thus making reading each issue easy for you and almost custom made. Each print headline is preceded by the dateline (the location in the coverage area where the article takes place) and is followed by a brief synopsis, often in our own snarky Disclosure style. The headlines are split up by sections in the paper, starting with the front page, then back page (second front page), pages 2 and 3, features if there are any, then Egypt, Heartland, Central and Op-Ed.
Now, without further ado, we bring you THIS MONTH’S PRINT HEADLINES!
PAGE 1
Darren Frank, in a 2010 mug from Clay County
CLAY CO.—DEATH UNSOLVED: The death of rural Clay County woman Amber Mahon still has Clay residents on edge. What happened in the moments leading up to the incident when she fell, jumped or was pushed out of the vehicle she was on on March 27? Whose vehicle was it? What was going on in the months before that? We have the answers to all of it. And if you’re worried about this case languishing, you have good reason. Give it a read.
It's a purple bike, purple being the "color" for victims of domestic abuse, as it sits outside Anna Bixby Center in Harrisburg
SALINE CO.—Indictments handed down in Anna Bixby fraud case: So you thought you knew all about the sitch at Anna Bixby in Harrisburg by listening to the talking heads tell you about it? Hahah...wait til you read this. And believe us when we tell you...there's more to come. Much, much more.
Former Hamilton County coach/teacher Jeff Gray
HAMILTON CO.---Allegations of coach's inappropriate conduct: You may already have read that there's been a resolution to the situation in McLeansboro with Coach Jeff Gray at the high school. We'll keep you posted if there are any changes at all with the matter...in the meantime, read this article!
WAYNE-WHITE COs.---Federal charges against former co-op CFO: So, lemme ask my fellow Wayne-White Counties Electric Cooperative customers, as well as those who use Ameren Illinois (which is what we have at the Harrisburg location): Are your electric bills at WWCEC twice what everybody else is paying, and in some instances, three times what others pay? Ever wonder why? Maybe, just maybe, THIS is why.
LAWRENCE CO.---Charge dismissed in "stabbing": We have quotations around the word stabbing because while there WAS one, apparently is wasn't what we were told it was. And so, true to our form, we're bringing you the follow up to an incident nearly two years old...because when people are cleared of charges, that's news, too.
BACK PAGE
From Steve Patton's "plentyoffish" page. It's plenty offish, alright...wait'll you read the coverage
SALINE CO.---So much for the black book of secrets: Steve Patton now a felon on single-count charge: I reiterate what I said about the Anna Bixby debacle: You think you heard it all from the talking heads telling you about it? Think again. This is a much, MUCH bigger story than the local media is willing to concede...and we have it all, because we've been there with it from the beginning.
RICHLAND CO.---Violence fills Richland court docket: We have quite a bit of violence in Richland County as a rule...but this issue, we have some interesting mugshots to go with it, hence the reason this particular piece of court coverage made the back page.
PAGE 2
CENTRAL COUNTIES---Low voter turnout and many tie votes plague central counties this election: Post-election coverage for our core counties, since we were able to give such good website coverage of the south and north counties in the coverage area on election night; Central kinda got overlooked. We make up for that here.
JASPER CO.---Fleeing and DUIs keep Jasper cops busy: One of the few Jasper County pieces we got, too good to stick back in the Heartland section, so we ran it on Page 2.
EGYPT
You can't make this stuff up....
SALINE CO.---Darwin award candidates arrested after getting truck stuck during burglary: There are few crims in Saline dumber than Matt Ozment. See what this mental midget is up to this time...you gotta read it to believe it.
SALINE CO.---Time-honored question of why a person would drive on suspended license with drugs in car unanswered: I think the headline says it all. I guess you have to be on dope to understand the actions of people who are.
SALINE CO.---'rado man charged with head-butting wife: Some of the violence report out of Saline County.
HARDIN CO.---Prosecutor withholds sex offender's address: Lil Tara messing up again; and, you'd think that Butter McGhee somehow knew she was going to be a prominent fixture in this issue, so she ensured that her weird-looking kid had plenty of pics available on his Facebook page....
GALLATIN CO.---EOP alleged mother smoking dope with kid--Two year plenary order entered in case: You gotta wonder about people who apparently hope to endear themselves to their kids by encouraging them to take a hit off the J every once in awhile with em....
SALINE CO.---Charged with yanking wife around the yard by her hair; Mills man charged with animal cruelty: More Saline County violence; one story not to be confused with the other.
GALLATIN CO.---Mixed bag of charges filed in Gallatin: Yeah, when we say mixed bag in this case, we mean mixed bag. There's just no categorizing it.
HEARTLAND
Joseph Scott, Crawford County Sheriff's Office mug
CRAWFORD CO.---Will prosecutor actually get around to doing anything about this sex offender? We, along with many other people, are wondering what the heck has happened to Matt Hartrich, State's Attorney in Crawford County. It's like he's stopped caring or something. And a sex offender is not something you want him to just up and stop caring about.
COLES CO.---Yes, Zone 5 investigations confirmed there was something being investigated at Sun Elite in Charleston: The brief, literally, that we put up just after release of the previous issue, and the ridiculous crap we got for it. We're not going to concoct something like this. We called two whole law enforcement agencies to confirm; they confirmed; and that's all you need to know. Don't have the friggin TV station calling us about it. Tend to it yourself.
CRAWFORD CO.---Huffing suspect found passed out, drooling: It intrigues me the kind of person it takes to think "Oh, I'll spray the contents of this canned air into something and take a big whiff and then lose consciousness and drool and maybe die!!" is a good idea. And yet, here we are...
CRAWFORD/JASPER/CLARK COs.---Election in the Heartland: Not a lot of contests, but some welcome faces in some areas: The rest of Heartland election coverage, the extent of which we only got Clark County on election night. Pitiful turnout everywhere made it so that even the reporting agencies weren't as excited about the election as they ordinarily are...leading to late totals for us.
COLES CO.---Ashmore woman sentenced for stealing concession stand cash: You know, we never find out what kind of impetus is behind these thefts. Who steals from kids/kid's programs?? Dang, girl.
CRAWFORD CO.---Charges against Oblong woman continue to mount: THIS chick Kristi Tremaine, might have a perky mugshot and all...but this OP thing with her is an ongoing one. See what she's up to now, in this article which is a basic crim roundup for Crawford as well.
CENTRAL
From Buck Windle's Facebook page. Now I'm asking you...do either one of these dweebs look gangsta? Because THEY think they do....
CLAY CO.---Xenia man and former victim both charged: Hilarity has ensued over "Buck" Windle's Facebook rants...and apparently that's all he's got, because this is one babyfaced lil punk, I'm here to tell ya. Read what happened that had everybody in Clay County screencapping a few weeks ago.
WHITE CO.--Meth convicts at center of stolen cell phone case: The White County crim report, which just gets more and more interesting every month.
WHITE CO. ---Prison inmate charge with burglary, theft: Nothing like going to DOC, THEN getting charged with a very serious crime while you're sitting there. Only in White County...
WABASH CO.--Wabash thefts include cash from Beuhler's and ExMark lawnmowers: Really. If dude were gonna start a lawn mowing service, he can start it without allegedly stealing mowers first....right?
LAWRENCE CO.---Burglar charged with dope: It was a slow month in Lawrence County this past one, but as of today, it seems like everybody's making up for it. We'll have more on that; in the interim, here's this month's crim report.
RICHLAND CO.---Leaf collection filling Richland court docket: Remember The Leaf Boyz, and the confusion over Zac Leaf and Tyler Leaf last year that created this inanity? well, they're back. No confusion this time.
WABASH CO.---Woman assaulted in her home at knife-point: Just when Wabash County got rid of one menace, along comes another. See who it is and what everybody's up to in this article.
EDWARDS CO.---Doper leads trio of Grayville residents charged: Long before there was the big to-do with Grayville and the officer-involved shooting, this kinda stuff featured in this article was going on. And will go on long after Johnny Eagleson is back in DOC, I'd wager.
WHITE CO.---White man charged with attacking three family members: Have I mentioned that there seems to be an excessive amount of crime coming out of White County this month...?
WABASH CO.--Violent sex predator caught lying on registration form: Don't EVEN give me any crap about the lead on this story. I've had it up to the eyeballs with people who hurt kids; I'm sick of it and they're gonna get called what they are....which is what's the lead of this story.
WABASH CO.---Mt. Carmel, Albion men face meth and alcohol charges: More alleged crim activity coming out of Wabash County.
LAWRENCE CO.---L'ville felon charged with having weapons: This one's an oddity. Not your typical felon in possession of a weapons charge.
LAWRENCE CO.---Noble man sentenced, his victim gets charged: Not a lot of crossover this issue, but here's one that does in deed have it: Lawrence to Richland and back again.
CLAY CO.---Louisville man charged with having sex with 15-year-old: Seems that ever since Mychal Bush-King got his butt in a sling on allegations of having sex with underage girls, it's been a kind of a trend there in Clay. Here's the third such guy in about two months being charged for that particular crime.
OP-ED
SURLY & UNCOOPERATIVE (Jack): Minion and a fish named Crunchy Blueberry...
ICY (Ang): News is harsh...and some just don't get it
MINKUS INK (Bubba): Seizure laws, jury nullification and other items
LETTERS: Letter-writer addresses Muslims
BACK OVER YOUR TALES: Deputy JD Robinson charged in Richland County; prospective Ridgway cop hemmed up in Carrier Mills; fire in Clay County leaves family of Charlie Chase worried; Ricky Turner is arrested in the 2009 death of Jessika James; Max Schauf dumps city workers; violent White County sex offender still out; huge theft ring busted in Richland County; two beat each other up in Saline County Detention Center; a Carmi man gets IDOC time after entering a plea to sex crimes; two guys beat up Brian James O'Neill; Kyle Gosnell of Lawrenceville is sentenced in Richland; the former village clerk of Geff is jailed; Tim Monroe is released from his jail stay; a Clay County resident is busted for child porn in Alabama; a big throw down at Cecil Gulley's house landed the usual suspects in jail in Harrisburg; the Fentanyl Five in Hardin County make court appearances; George Darrell Sargent is charged with a sex crime against an elderly woman; and Lawrence County deputy Josh Green is suspended after he beats up his girlfriend's brother.
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