News | Thursday, May 10,2012

Attorney general questions Macoupin mine permit

Concerns come as Foresight Energy announces IPO

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

News | Thursday, April 19,2012

Where are all the paychecks going?

GateHouse and SJ-R mum on jobs sent outside U.S.

By Bruce Rushton

Jobs once done in Springfield have been sent overseas by the State Journal-Register, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.The Department of Labor last month agreed with workers facing layoffs in

News | Thursday, April 19,2012

Illinois sues Sangamon County over records

County hasn’t released documents on injury at detention center

By Bruce Rushton

Sangamon County authorities are refusing to release records to the state Department of Children and Family Services, which is investigating a serious injury suffered by a DCFS ward at the county&rsquo