CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) — A southern Illinois woman has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for soliciting the murder of her 76-year-old husband and helping to conceal his body. The (Carbondale) Southern Illinoisan reports that Jackson County State’s Attorney Michael Carr announced last week that 55-year-old Carmen Stonemark of DeSoto pleaded guilty to solicitation…… Read More »
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois Gaming Board has selected a consulting firm to conduct a feasibility study for a casino in Chicago. The Gaming Board announced last week that it had selected Union Gaming Analytics of Las Vegas. The study is required by the gambling expansion law Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law last month .…… Read More »
Centralia Police Chief Brian Atchison says the department is now investigating three west side business burglaries in the past few days. They were at the previously announced Verizon Store on West McCord as well as at Pizza Hut on West Broadway and Doug Loy Automotive on North Chestnut Street. Atchison says suspects have been identified…… Read More »
A 15-year-old Centralia juvenile has been sentenced to the Juvenile Illinois Department of Corrections until his 21st birthday for a February burglary to St. Mary’s School in Centralia. The same juvenile also faces a felony obstructing justice charge for allegedly lying to police in connection with the shooting death of 13-year-old Jaden Lee Krauss of…… Read More »
Marion County Judge Marc Kelly has set bond at $250,000 for a 36-year-old Centralia woman who faces new counts of felony harassment of a witness in the aftermath of the May shooting death of 13-year-old Jaden Lee Krauss at her home. The two new charges allege Kirgan had told her live-in boyfriend Allen Boettcher to…… Read More »
The Patoka High School Trap Team competed at the USA High School National Championship this past weekend. 3 of the 16 member team traveled to Mason, Michigan to compete alongside 1800 other high school shooters from all over the country. Braden Torbeck 94 advancing to the finals on Sunday. He shot against 400 shooters, scoring…
The Gaetti Sports Academy will host a groundbreaking ceremony at ten Thursday morning at the location of its new building on the grounds of the old Meadow Woods Country Club at 1750 Tee Lane in Centralia. Gary Gaetti, a Centralia native, has been working with his development partners, Meadow Woods Holdings, to design a premier…
