Fire damages Waterloo home
Fortunately, no one was inside at the time flames broke out in the upper level of a brick home at 402 Morrison Avenue in...
Judge: Coleman bodies can be relocated
A Randolph County judge on Monday afternoon ruled that the bodies of a Columbia mother and her two sons murdered in 2009 can be...
Fort Kaskaskia building destroyed by fire
Fire destroyed the main shelter building at Fort Kaskaskia State Historic Site in rural Ellis Grove shortly before midnight on Halloween night, the North...
Strange lights in the Tuesday night sky
Sheriff's department deputies in Monroe and St. Clair counties turned their eyes to the sky Tuesday night near Paderborn just east of Waterloo, after...
Coleman bodies to remain in Chester, for now
A judge in Randolph County ruled Tuesday that the bodies of a Columbia mother and her two sons cannot be exhumed from their current...
Ministry dismissed from Coleman wrongful death lawsuit
In an order handed down Tuesday by Judge Richard Aguirre at the Monroe County Courthouse, a motion to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit filed...
Ministry seeks removal from wrongful death suit
Attorneys representing Joyce Meyer Ministries and the family of Sheri Coleman appeared before a judge in Monroe County court last Wednesday afternoon, as the...
Televangelist to give deposition in Coleman wrongful death case
A judge last Wednesday granted a motion by the plaintiffs to conduct discovery depositions of televangelist Joyce Meyer, her son, and another ministry official...
Coleman moved to Wisconsin prison
The Illinois Department of Corrections announced last week it has moved convicted triple-murderer Chris Coleman from the Pontiac Correctional Center to a maximum security...
Judge denies Coleman retrial
Judge Milton Wharton on Monday denied a defense motion to retry Chris Coleman in what may have been the convicted murderer's final court appearance...
Coleman defense seeks re-trial
In an expected move by the defense, attorneys for convicted triple-murderer Christopher Coleman filed a motion Friday morning at the Monroe County Courthouse requesting...
Coleman begins serving life sentence
Following his May 5 conviction for the 2009 strangulation murders of wife Sheri and sons Garett and Gavin inside their Columbia home, Chris Coleman...