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Training helps CCSI prepare for the worst
Active shooter incidents at schools, movie theaters and shopping malls have become frequent enough incidents in this country that training to respond to them is more prudent now than ever.…
Langhans leaving Columbia with lasting memories
For 56 years, Ron Langhans has been serving the Columbia community. Whether as the owner of Ron’s Pharmacy — now Khoury Pharmacy — or as a school board member for…
Route 3 work nearing completion
Work is progressing on the widening of Route 3 and other highway improvements in Waterloo as the project remains on schedule to be completed by the end of this year.…
Helping Strays preparing for big move
When Helping Strays hosts its major annual fundraiser, “A Cause for Paws,” this year, it will be closing a chapter in the organization’s young but immeasurably successful life — it…
Police Blotter | 3/23/2016
(Editor’s note: Information in this report is gathered directly from area police agencies, county courts and emergency radio dispatch. The public is reminded that defendants are presumed innocent until proven…
Car flees traffic stop in Columbia
Illinois State Police issued an all points bulletin to area police agencies about 11 a.m. Tuesday after a gold 2005 Ford sedan with Missouri plates fled a traffic stop on…
Man injured in tractor rollover near Waterloo
A man is recovering from broken bones and other injuries sustained when the tractor he was driving in the 3600 block of State Route 156 near Trout Camp Road just…
Crash on I-255 near Dupo
Emergency personnel responded about 11:30 a.m. Sunday to a single-vehicle crash with possible injury on I-255 northbound near the Dupo exit in St. Clair County. The vehicle involved was an…
Fire call on Gilmore Lake Road
The Waterloo Fire Department was joined by Monroe County EMS and the Monroe County Sheriff’s Department in responding to a property at 8800 Gilmore Lake Road for a small smokehouse…
Special prosecutor appointed in Edwards case
In a step that may indicate a decision on charges is forthcoming, a judge last week formally granted an order to appoint a special prosecutor in the case involving Joe…