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Illinois

IDOT, ISP: Don’t let a DUI wreck your holidays

SPRINGFIELD – This holiday season, the Illinois Department of Transportation, Illinois State Police, and more than 200 police and sheriff’s departments are joining forces for the national “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” DUI prevention campaign, reminding the public that law enforcement will focus not only on impaired drivers but also seat belt violations, speeding, distracted driving, and other traffic offenses. “The holidays should be a time for celebration and creating memories — not for grief and loss caused by preventable crashes,” said […]

todayDecember 20, 2024 78

Phegley Shelby County coroner

East Central Illinois Region

Shelby County coroner dies from hunting accident

SHELBYVILLE -- Shelby County's recently re-elected coroner was found deceased earlier this week from an apparent hunting accident in Coles County. Shelby County Coroner Brad Phegley, 67, was found deceased in Lake Mattoon on Wednesday afternoon, December 6. The Shelby County Sheriff's Department responded to a 911 call made by a waterfowl hunting partner of Phegley. The call reported discovering the body of Phegley floating near their hunting decoys in front of a shoreline waterfowl blind near 3526E and 850 […]

todayDecember 7, 2024 327

Grayson Sangamon County Sonya Massey

Illinois

Grayson arrested concerning July 6 officer-involved shooting

SPRINGFIELD -- The body cam footage of former Sangamon County deputy Sean Grayson shooting and killing a Springfield woman was made public to the media Monday. The video was made public Monday evening through a collective effort from Sangamon County State's Attorney John Milhiser and the Illinois State Police after prior consultation with the family of Sonya Massey. The alarming footage details the events of July 6, 2024 and an officer-involved shooting that involved Grayson. At 12:50 a.m., Sangamon County […]

todayJuly 23, 2024 176

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Capitol News Illinois

Misdeeds by Carlinville funeral home director spur legislative proposals

At least 80 families have received wrong remains, according to coroner

CARLINVILLE (Capitol News Illinois) -- The wrong cremains were buried in a national cemetery. Bodies cremated under the wrong name. The wrong ashes returned to families from coast to coast.  An investigation into the mishandling of human remains has affected at least 80 families so far and continues to ripple out from the epicenter, Heinz Funeral Home in Carlinville.   At Camp Butler National Cemetery where 32,000 military veterans are laid to rest, authorities exhumed five graves to remove cremated […]

todayFebruary 14, 2024 66

St. Elmo shooting Tyler Roe

East Central Illinois Region

Investigation underway after St. Elmo shooting

ST. ELMO -- An investigation is underway by the Illinois State Police following an incident Saturday evening that resulted in a shooting in Fayette County. The Illinois State Police's Division of Criminal Investigations is investigating an incident that occurred in St. Elmo in the 2400 block of County Road 2150. Local law enforcement received a burglary call around 7 p.m. Saturday in the 1600 block of North 1550 Road in Brownstown. The burglary was reported in progress with shots fired. […]

todayJanuary 2, 2024 48

Carlinville Heinz Funeral Home

Capitol News Illinois

State failed for months to act at Carlinville funeral home

Bodies found decomposing, families given strangers’ ashes in months following coroner’s complaint

CARLINVILLE (Capitol News Illinois) -- State regulators allowed a Carlinville funeral director to operate for months despite a complaint filed by a local coroner who found a decomposing body in his funeral home and alleged the care of the remains was “unacceptable and criminal in nature.” While trying to assist a local family with retrieving cremated remains in March, Morgan County Coroner Marcy Patterson found the unrefrigerated corpse in the embalming room of Heinz Funeral Home. She contacted the Illinois […]

todayDecember 7, 2023 87

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Capital Area Region

Illinois State Police reports closures

GRANDVIEW / SHERMAN -- The Illinois State Police reported two closures Monday morning along Interstate 55 in news releases to the media. At 1 a.m., ISP Troop 6 responded to a traffic accident that involved a lane blockage on Interstate 55 northbound near mile market 99. Traffic was diverted off the interstate at mile marker 98, which is the Ridgely Road exit near Springfield's northeastern suburb of Grandview. After a crash reconstruction and cleanup, the northbound lanes were reopened at […]

todayNovember 27, 2023 53

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Local

Pedestrian killed in Pana accident

PANA — A 62-year-old Pana man was killed as a result of an accident on Wednesday evening, Nov. 8 at Pine St. and E. Jackson. Christian County Deputy Coroner Austin Peters identified the victim as Dennis Moore of Pana. Pana Police Department reports that the accident occurred at about 5:52 p.m. They responded, along with Pana Fire Department and Echo Response EMS to the 800 block of East Jackson for a report of a motor vehicle accident. Upon arrival, they […]

todayNovember 9, 2023 32

Pittsfield Andrew Snow

West Central Illinois Region

Pittsfield man arrested on child porn charges

PITTSFIELD — On Monday, law enforcement officials from the Pike County Sheriff’s Department, Pittsfield Police Department, Illinois State Police, Illinois Conservation Police, and the Attorney General’s Office executed a court-authorized search warrant in the 400 block of Sycamore Street in Pittsfield. Just after 9 a.m. Monday, Andrew C. Snow, 18, of Pittsfield, was arrested on charges of unlawful dissemination of child pornography and unlawful possession of child pornography.   Snow is accused of possessing and disseminating videos, via an electronic […]

todayNovember 9, 2023 24

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