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NO EVIDENCE OF WOMAN RESTRAINED YESTERDAY AT HARRISBURG LAKE
SALINE CO.—Saline County officials have released information indicating that what went on yesterday at Harrisburg Lake had nothing to do with an alleged Unlawful Restraint issue. But that word went...
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“DRUG BRIDGE” SHUT DOWN; INVESTIGATION ONGOING INTO GATHERING ATTENDEE DEATH
HARDIN CO.—Officials have reported that the “drug bridge” on the premises of the Hog Rock Campgrounds, where attendees of The Gathering of the Juggalos north of Cave-in-Rock can freely buy all manner...
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DEAD GATHERING ATTENDEE WAS A LOCAL
HARDIN CO.—The young man who was a victim of an overdose this afternoon has been confirmed to be a local. Our Hardin County sources are telling us that the young man who apparently overdosed on an...
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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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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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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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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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MOLLY YOUNG’S CASE REMAINS OPEN; ‘CLOSURE’ WAS ‘IN ERROR’
DUQUOIN—The case involving the shooting death of Carbondale woman Molly Young is an open and ongoing investigation, according to the prosecutor handling it. Jackson County prosecutor Mike Carr, in a...
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Former mayor loses it at intersection
HARRISBURG—The former mayor of the city of Harrisburg continues to show his true colors, and on the evening of Thursday, August 1, one of those colors came shining through in a very public way....
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Women walked off courthouse premises as investigation into missing money...
WILLIAMSON CO.—Three deputy clerks were walked from the Williamson County circuit clerk’s office on the afternoon of Monday, August 5, after a months-long investigation into theft of funds from the...
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City rocked by assistant fire chief ’s suicide
McLEANSBORO—A second suicide in as many months had the community of McLeansboro reeling in late July when they lost an assistant fire chief to a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The death of Bob Bryson,...
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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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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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Divorce alleges bank fraud
WILLIAMSON CO.—A civil proceeding in Williamson County circuit court has brought out what can only be called a fraudulent act at a local bank…but nothing has been done about the matter except to sweep...
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WHITE CO.—Josiah Thompson Griffin, 28, of 707 N. 7th St., Carmi has been charged with Aggravated Battery and Resisting a Police Officer. Authorities say on July 21, Griffin knowingly caused bodily harm...
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WARRANT ISSUED AFTER BENTON SHOP RAIDED
BENTON—Remember this article from the other day? Turns out it probably was synthetics, as many were fearing…but what kind, exactly, is unclear. The Southern Illinoisan had it first—an arrest warrant...
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