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News | Thursday, December 13,2012

Can I get a witness?

After witness doesn’t get to testify, city loses case

By Bruce Rushton
There are more questions than answers in the wake of an arbitrator’s decision rescinding the termination of a City Water, Light and Power employee who cut down a relative’s tree on city ti
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News | Thursday, December 13,2012

Rats!

Henson-Robinson Zoo gets a fascinating new species. It’s not a panda.

By Bruce Rushton
Imagine being impervious to pain, immune to cancer and darn near immortal.Then imagine, as one scribe once put it, looking like a penis with buck teeth.That is the conundrum of the naked mole-rat, the
News | Thursday, December 6,2012

Not so fast

Chemical dumping at Clinton challenged

By Bruce Rushton
A consortium of local governments stretching from Urbana to Bloomington is suing a Peoria-based waste company in hopes of killing a hazardous waste landfill near Clinton in DeWitt County.The plaintiff
News | Thursday, December 6,2012

Going to pot

Illinois a battleground for medical marijuana

By Bruce Rushton
While voters in two states have legalized marijuana for anyone over 21, Illinois legislators may take a key vote on a much stricter measure that would allow for medical use of marijuana in the land of
Profile | Thursday, November 29,2012

The Cinema Snob

Bad movies are beautiful to Brad Jones

By Bruce Rushton
Brad Jones doesn’t stand out amid 100 or so vendors at HorrorHound Weekend in Indianapolis earlier this month.He is a diminutive, bearded, 30-year-old guy from Springfield in baseball cap and gl
News | Wednesday, November 21,2012

Case closed

Longtime prosecutor retires

By Bruce Rushton
It didn’t take long for things to get weird when Jay Magnuson started work as a Sangamon County prosecutor.“ ‘I’ve got a doozy for you,’” Magnuson recalls a Springf
News | Wednesday, November 21,2012

Sounding praise and alarms

Pols make nice after election

By Bruce Rushton
It was tough to tell the D from the R last Friday at a joint discussion by U.S. Sen. Richard Durbin and former governor Jim Edgar.The conversation sponsored by the Citizens Club at the Hoogland Center
News | Thursday, November 15,2012

Answers, please

Federal officials seek information on Carlinville mine

By Bruce Rushton
Federal environmental regulators have joined the Illinois attorney general’s office in asking why the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency transferred a pollution permit in Macoupin County,
News | Thursday, November 15,2012

A straight flush

GOP sweeps county races, as usual

By Bruce Rushton
What does it take for a Democrat to win countywide office in Sangamon County?Pretty much a miracle, unless your last name is Langfelder and you are running unopposed.On paper, at least, things this ye
News | Thursday, November 8,2012

Case dismissed

By Bruce Rushton
Charges against a physician accused of fraud and conspiracy have been dismissed after federal prosecutors admitted that an FBI agent violated the accused’s constitutional rights by gaining unfet