Douglas County News

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VILLA GROVE – Law enforcement officers from the Villa Grove Police Department, the Douglas County Sheriff's Office and a SWAT team have been at the scene of a home in Villa Grove since about 3 p.m. Monday.

TUSCOLA – Nellie Gilpin sits at the front of the courtroom and records the legal proceedings that take place in the Douglas County Courthouse in the same way she's done it for more than 40 years – with a pen and notebook.

Clean-up efforts are underway as residents work to recover from strong storms that blasted through east central Illinois last night.

PESOTUM – Two Indiana men are in the Douglas County jail after police say they found more than 100 pounds of cannabis in a van Thursday.

The chairman of the Housing Authority of Douglas County has applied to retain his seat.

Decisions as to the justification of a shooting last week along Interstate 74 will be in the hands of the Vermilion County state's attorney's office.

The final gasps of the 2008 election are coming. That would be the decision by Democratic Party officials on the replacement for 5th Congressional District Representative Mike Quigley as he resigns his post as Cook County Commissioner.

ARTHUR – Douglas County motorists can expect delays over the next several months on the Atwood-Arthur Road.

Here are a few options: the village could get rid of the police department and depend on Douglas and Piatt county deputies, it could expand to 24/7 coverage or it could scale back the coverage to save money.

Military jurors in California deliberating today whether a Marine sergeant from Illinois should be convicted of murdering an unarmed detainee during a battle in Iraq.

A chase across three counties ended Monday night with the shooting of a suspect in a police attack.

Police shoot and kill a man who led them on a cross county chase. Police say the initial stop was made on Route 130.

The Douglas County town of Arcola may be about to lose its most famous children, Raggedy Ann and Andy.

There's finally justice for the friends and family of a Douglas County sheriff's deputy killed in the line of duty.

PARIS – Resurfacing of Interstate 57 in southern Douglas County begins Monday.

An attorney for a 28-year-old Chicago man who admitted killing a Douglas County deputy says he did so to avoid what might have been a lifetime alone in his cell.

ARTHUR – It was, Republican gubernatorial hopeful Doug Whitley said, 'more like a family reunion than a Lincoln Day Dinner' when Douglas County Republicans gathered Wednesday night.

Willie Thompson admits to killing a Douglas County deputy nearly 2 years ago. He blames losing his own father for taking the life of another.

More job cuts are hitting a small Douglas county town. Wednesday, Progress Tank Plant, in Arthur sent people home with pink slips.