News | Thursday, May 17,2012

Chipping away

Board upholds findings against lawyer

A review board for the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission has rejected a Springfield bankruptcy attorney’s appeal of an ARDC hearing board recommendation that his law lic

News | Thursday, May 10,2012

Write wingers

While the mainstream press cuts back, conservatives step in

By Bruce Rushton

Necrophilia is legal in Illinois, and the legislature is cracking down.Who knew?The Belleville News-Democrat and St. Louis Post-Dispatch in February broke the news that state Rep. Daniel Beiser, D-Alt

News | Thursday, May 10,2012

Attorney general questions Macoupin mine permit

Concerns come as Foresight Energy announces IPO

By Bruce Rushton

While one of the state’s largest coal-mining companies prepares to go public, state regulators are examining whether one of the company’s mines near Carlinville has a proper pollution perm

News | Thursday, May 10,2012

Police probed in Jerome

Son of mayor under investigation

By Bruce Rushton

Steve Stirmell, a Jerome police officer who is the son of Jerome Mayor HarryStirmell, is under investigation by the Sangamon County state’s attorney and thestate attorney general, according to n

News | Thursday, May 3,2012

Plan? What plan?

Still no fix for city infrastructure

By Bruce Rushton

Springfield Mayor Mike Houston, who once said that he expected to have a plan to fix crumbling infrastructure without raising taxes within two months of his 2011 election, plans to present the city co

| Thursday, May 3,2012

Local attorney buys historic depot

Great Western depot to remain open for public

By Bruce Rushton

The State Journal-Register has agreed to sell the historic Lincoln Depot to local attorney Jon Gray Noll and his wife Pinky. “It’s an exciting project,” Pinky Noll said. “Th

News | Wednesday, May 2,2012

Bumps in the roadshow

THR and its owner face lawsuits, bad checks

By Bruce Rushton

THR and Associates says it will make good on thousands of checks written on an account that was unexpectedly closed last week.Meanwhile, the Springfield-based company and its owner, Jeffrey Parsons, w

News | Thursday, April 26,2012

Where would Jesus park?

Sacred Heart-Griffin students clog streets

By Bruce Rushton

Eric Reiss knows the cars by heart, right down to the license plate numbers.Where, he wonders, is the gold Toyota today?“A wonderful little girl drives it,” says Reiss, who lives at the in

News | Thursday, April 26,2012

Plenty of room at the inn

Sangamon County’s juvenile detention center goes unused

By Bruce Rushton

Sangamon County is considering options for its juvenile detention center that remains largely empty a dozen years after it opened.Possibilities include closing the center or remodeling space so that a

News | Thursday, April 19,2012

Not playing in Peoria

Civic leaders say they’re concerned about SJ-R and Peoria newspaper

By Bruce Rushton

Religious leaders and elected officials in Peoria have intervened in collective bargaining between employees and management at the Peoria Journal Star, sister paper of the State Journal-Register.In a