Beason News

The EF3 tornado that crossed Logan County on Aug 19, 2009 was on the ground the entire width of the county amazingly missing major population areas, but still damaged 20 some farmsteads and displaced many families from their homes, some permanently.

L ogan County Sheriff Steve Nichols, Lincoln Police Chief Stuart Erlenbush and Illinois State Police Lt.

J ennifer Earnest of Armington appeared in Logan County Circuit Court today at 10:25 a.m. Earnest, represented by Lincoln attorney Jim Grimaldi, pleaded not guilty to a charge of obstruction of justice in the Gee family homicide.

The Logan County grand jury has indicted the two Harris brothers on multiple murder counts and has added attempted sexual assault, burglary and armed robbery to the charges against them.

Two women charged with obstruction of justice in the murders of five family members in Beason, Illinois will apparently wait out their legal proceedings in Florida.

Indictments released Wednesday claim two brothers armed with a tire iron broke into a family's home to rob them and assault a teenage girl before beating five people to death.

A Sarasota, Florida woman pleaded not guilty to charges of obstruction of justice Monday in Logan County.

The First United Churches of Beason and Lincoln have collected more than $10,000 to pay for hospital and funeral costs for the Gee family.

A central Illinois county where five family members were found slain in their home last month hasn't made any search warrants accessible to the public in at least a year, violating state law, officials say.

One of the brothers accused of murder in the five deaths of the Gee family was in Logan County court Tuesday.

Logan County-Jason Harris 1 of 2 men accused of murdering five members of a Beason family appeared in a Logan County courtroom Tuesday.

T he Salvation Army and Logan County Emergency Management Agency have rescheduled the tornado debris cleanup day for the Dahmm family of Beason.

They share a lot in common but the two brothers charged with the murders of a family in Beason, Illinois will apparently not share a trial.

Christopher J. Harris, 30, was arrested just after 4:00 p.m., Thursday, October 1, for the murders of five members of the Gee family by a multi-agency task force.

A McLean County man accused of murdering five members of a Beason, Illinois family was back in court Tuesday afternoon.

With a second man now facing murder charges, the Logan County sheriff said Friday he believes they've caught everyone responsible for killing a family of five in the little town of Beason.

Logan County State's Attorney Michael McIntosh has charged 22-year-old Jason Harris with five counts of First Degree Murder and one count of Attempted First Degree Murder in connection with the five murders of the Gee and Constant families in Beason last month.A Harris is the brother of Christopher Harris, who was given the same charges more than a ...

Investigators have announced 3 more arrests in connection to the murders of the Gee family.

The brother of the man accused of killing five in Beason, Illinois last month has been arrested by Logan County Deputies along with his girlfriend and her mother in connection with the murders.

New details are expected to be revealed in the murders of a family of five in Beason, Illinois on September 21.