Violent former cop focus of multi-county court battles
SALINE/RICHLAND/LAWRENCE Cos.—A former Disclosure staffer has been arrested on two criminal counts, and the façade her former law enforcement husband has carefully constructed around himself and his...
View ArticleWINTER WEATHER ARRIVES EARLY IN SOUTHEASTERN ILLINOIS
Here’s a look at what’s tracking toward us, and the counties it affects in our readership area, as today progresses. From the National Weather Service: HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER...
View ArticleCONVICTED SPECIAL ED INSTRUCTOR TERMINATED LAST NIGHT AT MCHS
Kirby J. Cheesman MT. CARMEL, Ill.—A Wabash County Unit School District #348 school board meeting last night (Monday, November 10) saw the reading of a letter of resignation from the woman who just a...
View ArticlePROMINENT LAWRENCE COUNTY BUSINESSMAN IS DEAD
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ill.—Reports out of Lawrenceville last night are that long-time businessman Frank Ladner is deceased. Reports indicate that the 87-year-old had been in hospice at Good Samaritan in...
View ArticleNightly NewsCap: Covering the headlines for the past 24 hours, here’s ANG in...
We gave Lyndi the evening off in light of all the heavy stuff going on in the area, and handed the ‘cap to Ang, which she entered into with a…heh…vengeance. But with a clean conscience. Here’s your...
View ArticleILLINOIS STATE POLICE TO CONDUCT SPECIAL PATROLS IN DIST. 12
EFFINGHAM, Ill.—The Illinois State Police (ISP) District 12, will conduct Nighttime Enforcement Patrols (NITE) in Effingham County as well as special Traffic Enforcement Patrols (sTEP) during November,...
View ArticleTHIS MONTH’S PRINT HEADLINES, NOVEMBER 2014!
Here it is, the November issue of Disclosure and one of many in our current trial run of having a paper every three weeks! Deliveries have been made in most locations (a few stragglers out there; which...
View ArticleNightly NewsCap: A light news day after a heavy news week, in AUDIO!
It’s a nice way to end the week when there isn’t something deadly serious going on or really much of anything…and it makes for a light NewsCap for the evening of Friday, November 14, 2014! Topics...
View ArticleSLEEPINESS MAY HAVE BEEN CAUSE OF CRASH LAST NIGHT IN HAMILTON CO.
HAMILTON CO., Ill.—A traffic crash in Hamilton County lead to a sleepy driver being taken to a local hospital. The single-vehicle crash occurred on Illinois Route 142, approximately three-quarters of...
View ArticleILLINOIS STATE POLICE DISTRICT 12 ANNOUNCES OCTOBER ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITY
EFFINGHAM CO., Ill.—Illinois State Police District 12 Commander, Captain Kelly Hodge, announced yesterday activity and enforcement figures for the month of October. Troopers in District 12, which...
View ArticleENTIRE READERSHIP AREA IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS IS UNDER HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
Here’s the latest from the National Weather Service, telling us about this ridiculous weather event we’re all about to undergo here in southern Illinois: HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER...
View ArticleCENTRALIA MAN SENTENCED FOR DEFRAUDING TAXPAYERS
U.S. DISTRICT COURT, SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS/MARION CO., Ill.—Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on Friday, November 14,...
View ArticleNightly NewsCap: Catching you up on a weekend’s worth of news in AUDIO
Here’s Lyndi rounding up the headlines as they occurred over the weekend as well as today, Monday, November 17, 2014! Topics covered include: two single vehicle accidents over the weekend, one in...
View ArticleISP HANDLES MULTI-VEHICLE CRASH ON U.S. 45 IN WHITE COUNTY
WHITE CO., Ill.—A multiple-vehicle crash in rural White County had U.S. 45 closed shortly after 1 p.m. today. Illinois State Police advise that at that time, both lanes of U.S. Route 45 near Circle R...
View ArticleMADIGAN: TWO ARRESTS IN CHILD PORNOGRAPHY OPERATION
Chicago — Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced charges today against two men on multiple counts of possessing, reproducing and disseminating child pornography as part of “Operation Glass House,”...
View ArticleHERRIN & GALATIA MEN INVOLVED IN U.S. 45 COLLISION; ONE INJURED
WHITE CO., Ill.—A collision between two commercial trucks on U.S. 45 earlier today caused road closure for about three and a half hours, and sent one of the drivers to the hospital. The crash occurred...
View ArticleNightly NewsCap: Catching you up on the news from the past 48 hours in AUDIO
We had to skip NewsCap last night because of having to make a quick trip to St. Louis (got in about 1 a.m….*yawn*) so Lyndi’s catching you up on yesterday’s news and today’s as well, for the Nightly...
View ArticleRICHLAND CO. MAN SENTENCED TO 105 MONTHS ON METH CHARGES
Nathan Headley U.S. DISTRICT COURT, SOUTHERN DISTRICT, ILLINOIS—A Richland County man was sentenced on November 19, 2014, to federal prison on methamphetamine charges, Stephen R. Wigginton, United...
View ArticleNightly NewsCap: A light news day in the area, in AUDIO
It’s not been a particularly busy news day in the coverage area, but Lyndi has what there is here for the evening of Thursday, November 20, 2014, and your Nightly NewsCap! Topics covered include:...
View ArticleBOMB THREATS AT BOTH SALINE AND WHITE COUNTY COURTHOUSES
SALINE/WHITE COs., Ill.—Saline County chief deputy Ken Clore has confirmed to us this morning that two area courthouses are currently under bomb threats. Saline and White counties’ courthouses as of 9...
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