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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 Waterloo around 11:10 a.m. Wednesday. Waterloo…
Read MoreJudge: 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 moved from their current resting places…
Read MoreFort 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 County News reported. The Ellis Grove…
Read MoreStrange 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 multiple callers reported seeing unusual lighted…
Read MoreColeman 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 resting place in a Chester cemetery.…
Read MoreMinistry 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 by the family of Sheri Coleman…
Read MoreMinistry 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 ministry made arguments in support of…
Read MoreTelevangelist 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 as part of a wrongful death…
Read MoreColeman 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 prison outside of the state. The…
Read MoreJudge 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 at the Monroe County Courthouse in…
Read MoreColeman 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 the court set aside his May…
Read MoreColeman 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 was sentenced to life without the…
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