Altamont News

The Effingham County Fair Twilight Parade will be held Sunday evening, August 2.A Parade sponsors Terry and Cristi White are encouraging pre-registration of your entry.

David and Shirley Hall will celebrate their 50th anniversary on July 10. The couple were married July 10, 1959, at the Free Methodist Church in Taylorville by the Rev.

The 42nd Middleton Reunion tool place June 14 boasting a new look in a new location, The Cowden Municipal Building in Cowden.

Editorial - Unparalleled and Denied - NYTimes.com : "In an appalling 5-to-4 ruling on Thursday, the Supreme Court's conservative majority tossed aside compelling due process claims, the demands of justice and a considered decision by a lower federal appeals court to deny the right of prisoners to obtain post-conviction DNA testing that might prove ...

In an appalling 5-to-4 ruling on Thursday, the Supreme Court's conservative majority tossed aside compelling due process claims, the demands of justice and a considered decision by a lower federal appeals court to deny the right of prisoners to obtain post-conviction DNA testing that might prove their innocence.

A Supreme Court decision increases the risk that the wrongly convicted could be kept behind bars.

Better for you to die wrongfully in a vote-wealthy state-sanctioned murder than obtain true due process.

Eloise Halsey hugs her son Byron Halsey and Halsey's brother James Roundtree during a press conference outside the courthouse.

Tom Feddor has the lowest vehicle license plate number in Illinois on his Range Rover.

Be careful when you're traveling in rural areas today...what wasn't underwater last night might be underwater today.

It's crunch time for planting corn in the Wabash Valley. A cool, wet spring has put corn planting well behind the normal schedule, according to data provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

wow said in the Effingham Forum:

Thanks for the information. I am from Effingham County and I must say that although I dicourage underage drinking this was by far over stepping their boundries! It is very expensive to run such test and they felt compelled to have these test 3 times over the course of the yer? If they feel that this is such a big issue, what steps are they taking to prevent the drinking? I agree with you and appreciate your input!

Joel Pineiro pitched until he could pitch no more, writhing on the ground in front of the pitcher's mound, cramping uncontrollably.

An Effingham man has died due to heat stroke. 53-year-old Karol Kowalczyk died at 7:48pm Wednesday at St.

Yadier Molina and Colby Rasmus supplied six of the St. Louis Cardinals' eight hits Wednesday night, helping edge the Detriot Tigers 4-3. The three-game home stand -- and series -- with the Tigers is already won for the Cards, now 2-0, and who hope to sweep Thursday night at Busch Stadium.

Chris Duncan has hit better on the road than at home, but Tuesday night at Busch Stadium, he launched a bomb into the left center field bleachers in an at-bat that followed a blast by Albert Pujols that narrowly missed thumping into Bic Mac Land.

Ali Peterson brushes out the winter coat of a miniature Hereford cow on a ranch near Tekamah, Nebraska.

The essence of this quote forms the very cornerstone of the system of justice in the United States.

Walking through their lowing herd of several hundred cattle, Ali and Kenny Petersen were like two Gullivers on a Lilliputian roundup.

Altamont city council members have okayed a parade through the city, honoring agriculture's past.