Effingham News

His lawyer says the former Bloomington, Ill., police officer was denied a fair trail, evidence was lacking.

With more than 2,500 pounds of catfish served at the E-Town River Restaurant in less than two weeks time, clearly the people have spoken: They want, no, they demand their whiskered delights filleted, battered, ...

PROTECTIONS IN the legal system have been described by certain sections of the media as "charters for criminals" but they are there to protect the administration of justice itself, according to Chief Justice of ...

Stella Marie Kay, 81, of Stewardson, Illinois, formerly of Assumption, Illinois and Dodge City, Kansas, died at 1:35 p.m. Tuesday, July 15, 2008, in Lakeland Rehabilitation and Health Care Center, Effingham, ...

Brian Nichols' defense attorneys filed a deposition Friday that they say shows District Attorney Paul Howard may have perjured himself when he testified about why he didn't investigate a report that one of his ...

Room 8 , which covers New York City and surrounding region politics, was recently the target of what sounds like gross prosecutorial misconduct.

Farm Aid, the long-running benefit concert, will be held this year in New England for the first time.

Ruth U. Reider, 80, of Neoga, Illinois, formerly of Shelbyville, died at 6:50 p.m. Saturday, July 12, 2008 in St.

Grace Community Church is raising money to build two enormous crosses that its pastor says will mark the entrances to Houston on Interstate 45.

Houston: City of giant crosses? No thanks! Apparently, pastor Steve Riggle of Grace Community Church in Houston believes that the United States should be a theocracy, and wants to fortify Houston as a symbol of ...

More forest fires, unreliable water supplies, volatile farming conditions and the emergence of unfamiliar diseases -- these are among the impacts Albertans can expect from a warming climate, a new report to the ...

When a case involves such spectacles as a fashion heir charged with money laundering, not to mention a former missile silo converted into an LSD factory, the legal fireworks usually live up to the occasion.

Jason J. Luna, 32, of Gardner, died June 16 at at Olathe Medical Center. A graveside service was held at 11:30 a.m. Friday, June 20, at the Los Springs Cemetery.

Effingham County may hold the key to the upcoming Republican Congressional primary.

Three suspects from the Cincinnati area are the focus of an ongoing manhunt in Collinsville, Ill.

Kent Couch leaves his gas station in Bend, Oregon riding a lawn chair rigged with more than 150 giant party balloons in an attempt to fly to Idaho.

The fatal shooting of Steven Wallace by a police officer in the Taranaki town of Waitara eight years ago is being investigated by the new Independent Police Conduct Authority.

Jason J. Luna, 32, of Gardner, died June 16 at at Olathe Medical Center. A graveside service was held at 11:30 a.m. Friday, June 20, at the Los Springs Cemetery.

In the midst of a voter-fraud scandal, the Daggett County Commission, in a 2-1 vote Tuesday, terminated its contract with County Attorney Brian Sidwell.

Democratic attorney general candidate Margaret Donnelly said Thursday that she would crack down on dangerous and recalled products while fixing loopholes for sex offender registration and background checks.