“The Journal paper was always my friend; and of course its editors the same.” —Abraham Lincoln, 1864What a difference 147 years makes.The Lincoln Depot
Another chapter in the tragedy of Tim Davlin, the former Springfield mayor who committed suicide nearly a year ago, was written Nov. 16 when a judge approved the sale of Mid-West Truckers Association
City Water, Light and Power made money generating electricity during the past year, but just barely, Springfield’s top municipal utility official told the Citizens Club last week.“It’
Jesse Myers is, by all appearances, a one-man crime wave.His first scrape with law enforcement as an adult came in 2008, when he was arrested on suspicion of theft and trespassing one month before his
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a stricken helicopter on top of Memorial Medical Center! Believe it. The Bell helicopter operated by OSF Aviation was landing on the hospital
While the wife of a doctor who conducts autopsies for Sangamon County considers running for coroner next year, Sangamon County coroner Cinda Edwards says that she is switching pathologists and that po
Jade Ostermeier was barely grown up – a hippie at heart, she wrote on her Facebook page:Im a pretty out there kinda girl.Taking life as it comes.Music gets me through the day.Im 17Marc Fagan, Os
For years, debate has raged about whether gravel pits near Riverton contain enough water to see Springfield through a drought.Now, hydrological testing might settle the question.Mayor Mike Houston has
Paul Carpenter is back on the job at the Springfield Police Department.But a defense attorney familiar with Carpenter’s record questions whether the veteran officer, who was fired then reinstate
Sangamon County coroner Cinda Edwards says politics have nothing to do with her decision to stop using Dr. John Ralston to conduct autopsies.But Ralston and others aren’t so sure, given that the