News | Wednesday, April 30,2008

Dog gone

Police serving a warrant kill a dog, but overlook suspect they meant to arrest

Untitled Document Nick Bartolomucci admits that his dog Pepper was an amazing creature. Rescued by Bartolomucci as a starved, dehydrated, mangy 5-month-old pup, the p

News | Wednesday, April 30,2008

Revolutionary spirit

Festival organizer says he’s only just begun

By Dusty Rhodes

Untitled Document Until last weekend, the biggest party Joshua Foster ever hosted was a backyard cookout attended by 50 people. Then he got this crazy idea to host a

Dusty Rhodes: Fresh Ink | Wednesday, April 23,2008

The death of Superman

Bill Anderson’s journey through cancer had a healing effect on everyone around him

By Dusty Rhodes

Untitled Document Letitia Dewith-Anderson once scared me silly. She rang my phone, which she didn’t do very often, and when I answered I could tell that this call was of so

Feature | Wednesday, April 23,2008

Seventh heaven

For Patty Redpath, family life was pretty good. It's about to get a whole lot better.

By Dusty Rhodes

Untitled Document The first thing you see when you enter Patty Redpath’s house is two laundry baskets brimming with shoes — big shoes, little shoes, snea

News | Wednesday, April 16,2008

The time bandit

Former detective free of criminal charges but still faces battle for badge

By Dusty Rhodes

Untitled Document Paul Carpenter moved one step forward in his efforts to return to work in law enforcement this week when his attorney filed a motion to dismiss the final crimin

News | Wednesday, April 9,2008

Land of stinkin’

Report underscores lack of regulation of factory farms

By Dusty Rhodes

Untitled Document An estimated 500 large factory farms are being allowed to operate and possibly pollute with virtually no oversight from the Illinois Environmental P

Dusty Rhodes: Fresh Ink | Wednesday, April 2,2008

The right to say thank you

Legislation would give adoptees access to birth certificates

By Dusty Rhodes

Untitled Document I hardly slept a wink the night before I met my mother. I was in a motel, just off Interstate 35, on the outskirts of the city where she lived with her family.

News | Wednesday, April 2,2008

Bound for glory

WUIS’s popular Kavitha Cardoza accepts Washington, D.C., gig

By Dusty Rhodes

Untitled Document The inevitable has happened. As anyone who listens to WUIS (91.9 FM) knows, reporter Kavitha Cardoza always had too much talent to be broadcasting from a radio

News | Wednesday, March 26,2008

What’s in store

Once-troubled Goodwill plans big changes in coming weeks

By Dusty Rhodes

Untitled Document What’s that old saying — when God closes one door, he opens another? It’s almost the same for Goodwill shopaholics. Though the godfathe

News | Wednesday, March 19,2008

Squeal appeal

Court rules in favor of controversial hog farm

By Dusty Rhodes

Untitled Document Bob and Sandy Young are happy as pigs in . . . muck. The Buckhart couple this week learned that the Appellate Court of Illinois had ruled in favor of th