Failed suicide attempt, and death threats to children featured in Pope roundup
POPE CO.— A failed suicide attempt ended with shots fired and a Golconda man behind bars. According to reports, on February 16 at approximately 6:45 p.m. officer Joshua K. Wright was dispatched to 364...
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SALINE CO.— Many are wondering if a teenage drug dealer and convicted felon was nabbed at Harrisburg High School before he could start selling his wares. According to police reports, on Thursday,...
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Feuding Hardin County couple lead general crim report after thumping on one...
GIDEON FRAILEY HARDIN CO.— A Hardin County couple have been charged with hitting one another. According to information filed in the cases, Gideon L. Frailey, 28, of Cave-In-Rock and Josie K. Frailey,...
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Eldorado drug felon busted for domestic
Thomas W. Summers SALINE CO.— An Eldorado drug felon, fresh out of prison, has been charged with a violence count. Authorities say that Thomas W. Summers, 28, of 2406 Locust St., Eldorado, committed...
View ArticlePair of IYC inmates charged with battery on correctional employees
SALINE CO.— There have been two separate cases filed in the past several weeks in which employees of the Illinois Youth Center (IYC), located at 1201 West Poplar St., Harrisburg, have allegedly been...
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Stolen steaks from Big John’s end with jail food
Joshua Ryphson Carter SALINE CO.— This issue’s general crime report offers a variety of stolen items from cuts of beef, gift cards and even a washer and dryer. An Eldorado convicted felon has been...
View ArticleShawneetown violent con charged with beating family with wrench
Bathtub battering GALLTIN CO.— A Shawneetown man who has been lightly slapped on the hand for violence in the past has now worked his way up to a trio of felonies which are now being taken seriously...
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Officer on foot patrol nabs suspected meth dealer smoking meth with sons
Joshua Michael Peavler SALINE CO.— An Eldorado convicted felon was taken into custody after police say they found him smoking meth with his two sons. According to police sources, on February 25 at 8:28...
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Former Harrisburg man indicted
Scott Way’s Williamson County mug from a year ago; he’s currently being held in federal detention following a federal drug indictment. WILLIAMSON CO. – Another charge has been filed against a former...
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Road commissioner issues worry voters in Saline County
SALINE CO. – Elections generally tend to bring out the best and worst in people and prompt folks to raise questions not ordinarily on the minds of the voters until it comes time to cast a ballot....
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HARRISBURG: Man thought to be behind city’s gang issue charge with meth counts
Dennis Jackson SALINE CO., Ill. - The Harrisburg man alleged to have been behind some of the city's "gang" activity over the past several years is jailed today following multiple charges on...
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Cairo man to receive life sentence for double murder during attempted bank...
CAIRO, Ill.— Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that James Nathaniel Watts, age 32, of Cairo, has pleaded guilty to a federal Superseding...
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PEOPLES NATIONAL BANK, BONANS, SUED BY GRAND RIVERS
U.S. DISTRICT COURT, SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS - A federal civil suit has been filed in U.S. District Court in East St. Louis against Peoples National Bank and the folks who operate (or operated)...
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MARION: City police report includes the folks from last weeks ‘jail tales’
MARION, Ill. – The Marion police report for March 8 through 13 has the set of folks who were part of jail tales last week, bracketed by the rest of the folks who caught some trouble during that time...
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Early-morning crash sends young Hardin County man to out-of-area hospital
HARDIN CO., Ill. - A young Hardin County man fresh off his 23rd birthday is in an Evansville hospital tonight after what's being termed a serious crash outside of Elizabethtown. Reports indicate that...
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SALINE COUNTY ALLEGED DOPEMAKERS GO FEDERAL
Phyllis Smurf Shoulder/s SALINE/FRANKLIN COs., Ill. - Three people caught up in a big meth bust in Harrisburg a year ago have gone federal. Starlight McPherson Starlight L. Shoulder-McPherson, 51; John...
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February drug arrests in Harrisburg did NOT involve Sonic employees
Zachary Russel, Saline County mug HARRISBURG, Ill. - On February 27 in an article entitled “Sonic Cook Busted After Leaving Suspected Drug House,” we reported arrests on February 1 by Harrisburg police...
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MARION: Police report features lots of disorderly and the return of a local girl
Amanda Stahlhut MARION, Ill. – A busy police report from the City of Marion PD for March 13 through 20, 2017, shows a lot of disorderly conduct, a person from Eldorado being busted, a girl by the name...
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ANNIVERSARY OF MISSING PERSON: Sheriff’s department notes disappearance of...
Joel Moore WILLIAMSON CO., Ill. - Williamson County Sheriff Bennie Vick wishes to remind the public of the upcoming anniversary of a man who's been missing for seven years now. In a detailed press...
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CRAB ORCHARD LAKE: Prescribed burn clouding up the sky
By Disclosure Marion correspondent WILLIAMSON CO., Ill. - For concerned commuters in Marion, the billowing clouds of smoke on the southwest horizon are coming from a "prescribed burn" at the Crab...
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