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GLEN CARBON MAN INDICTED FOR ARMED ROBBERY
U.S. DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS - The Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, James L. Porter, announced today that Jonathan Michael Malone, 53,...
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PROTESTORS HOPING THAT WHINING CARBONDALE/MT. V ATTORNEY GOES DOWN IN FLAMES
We don't have a comment about the Carbondale/Mt. Vernon attorney who vented his spleen on his Facebook page over the wreck that caught him up in traffic on icy Interstate 57 the other day. Everyone...
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CA. MAN SENTENCED IN FEDERAL COURT ON METH CHARGES FROM WILLIAMSON CO.
U.S. DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS - A California man was recently sentenced to federal prison on methamphetamine charges, James L. Porter, Acting United States Attorney for the...
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SAD NEWS OUT OF HARDIN: SHERIFF’S DAD PASSES AWAY
Jerry Dean (Big Jerry) Fricker HARDIN CO., Ill. - A local icon from Hardin County has passed away. Jerry Dean Fricker, father of Hardin County Sheriff Jerry Thomas (JT) Fricker, died yesterday,...
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MARION POLICE LOOKING FOR KROGER CREDIT CARD SUSPECT
MARION, Ill. - Does this guy look familiar? Marion Police Investigators are currently investigating the unlawful use of a credit card that occurred multiple times on December 17, 2015 at Kroger. This...
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DRIVING TOO FAST ON ICY ROADWAY CITED IN GALLATIN CRASH
GALLATIN CO., Ill. - A Pulaski County woman is okay after a close call yesterday in Gallatin County....but she was cited for it, regardless. The single-vehicle collision took place yesterday afternoon...
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GALLATIN CO.— This issue’s violence report out of Gallatin County includes child endangerment, OP violation, a woman sentenced for hitting family member and a battered Margenthaler. Warren A. Cusic,...
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Harrisburg man charged with attack on wife
SALINE CO.— A Harrisburg man with a repeat violent record has been charged with beating his wife. According to police reports, on January 10, at 9:02 a.m. Harrisburg officer Nathan Moore responded to...
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HARDIN CO.— It appears the report of a theft of a game system could have ended in revenge snitching. Racheal A. Belter has been charged with Unlawful Possession of a Controlled Substance with Intent to...
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No clue as to how man lying in vomit ended up with severe head trauma
SALINE CO.— A drunken Poplar Street domestic left authorities with a slew of unanswered questions as to how one man ended up with head injuries so bad he had to be flown by helicopter to an area...
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Ranting Merissa slapped with weapon felony in November Cummins case
SALINE CO. – The woman who was with a local crim during his November bust by a conservation police officer has been hemmed up in Saline County on a serious felony after an investigation into where a...
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U.S. Marshals look for parolee in Gallatin
PATRICK E. VAUGHAN SHAWNEETOWN – U.S. Marshals were in Gallatin County over the weekend of January 22-24, in search of a parolee out of Greene County in northern Illinois who was wanted on a warrant...
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Four charged following theft of 31 weapons from Gunslinger’s Gun Shop, rural...
SALINE CO.— Four individuals have been charged in the January 3 break-in and robbery of Gunslinger’s Gun Shop, located at 810 Karel Park Rd., Eldorado. On January 3, Gunslinger’s owner Ronald Frailey...
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CHICKEN SLAUGHTER ALLEGED
SALINE CO. – The first criminal misdemeanor of 2016 in Saline County is a doozy and many hope it’s not setting the tone for the rest of the year. The situation arose months before it was charged, and...
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Report: Crims raped with knives following Sahara Lake abduction
Cocaine dealer & sex offender shot at with AK-47 SALINE CO.— In an ever-more-increasingly violent environment in and around Saline County, authorities are taking seriously a report from a...
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‘Gentlemen’s club’ located on top floor of Clearwave building?
Frank W. “Bill” Bonan, Jr. What does this mean for certain political aspirations? SALINE CO.— After several months and numerous rumors, it appears the location of an elusive, members-only, alleged...
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NO ONE INJURED IN MARION OVERTURN WRECK
MARION, Ill. - An overturn accident in front of Wendy's in Marion today was quite the sight, and one of our readers snapped a pic of it. The accident occurred at about 11:15 a.m. this morning...
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THIS MONTH’S PRINT HEADLINES, FEBRUARY 2016!
Into our second paper of the year! And believe me when I say, it's the second of many because it looks as if the every-three-week papers event enough to contain the investigative stuff, and we're...
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IYC INMATE CONVICTED IN JURY TRIAL, SALINE COUNTY
SALINE CO., Ill. - An Illinois Youth Center inmate who attacked a guard at the Harrisburg facility found out the hard way that no one is going to take pity on him just because he's been a juvenile...
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PEABODY LAYS OFF 75 COTTAGE GROVE, WILDCAT MINERS
SALINE CO., Ill. - Less than two years after running people out, ruining the land, causing hardship for the county on many levels and other generalized angst, Peabody Coal is reducing their presence...
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