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1. Three charged with kidnapping, beating of Fairfield, Ill., teen

   18 hrs ago | Evansville Courier & Press

   Patrick Vaughan, 19, reported the incident to Fairfield Police on Thursday, saying he was terrified of the perpetrators and too shaken up to have come forward earlier.

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2. Gallows used to hang Illinois gangster Charlie Birger found in old barn | POLL

   Friday | Evansville Courier & Press

   Courtesy of the Franklin County Historic Preservation Society / Associated Press Above: This 1928 photo provided by the Franklin County Historic Preservation Society in Benton, Ill., shows bootlegging gangster Charlie Birger, center, on the gallows just before his public hanging in Benton.

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3. Illinois mayor pleads guilty to fraud

   Friday May 10 | Evansville Courier & Press

   The mayor of Bridgeport, Ill., entered a guilty plea Wednesday to three counts of mail fraud and one count of obstruction of justice.

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4. Ridgway, Ill., man sentenced to five years for growing marijuana

   Apr 11, 2013 | Evansville Courier & Press

   Daniel J. Fulkerson, 39, was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court at Benton, Ill., after admitting he and two other men conspired to grow 132 pot plants last summer.

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   Related Topix: Drugs, Ridgway, IL, Federal Prisons, Prison, Equality, IL

5. Former Southern Illinois sheriff sent to maximum-security prison in Arizona

   Dec 28, 2012 | Evansville Courier & Press

   After spending several days at a transfer facility, former Gallatin County Sheriff Raymond M. Martin has been transferred to a high-security federal penitentiary in Tucson, Ariz., where he will begin serving two life sentences for dealing drugs and witness tampering.

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6. Fairfield, Ill., dentist sentenced to a year and a day

   Dec 21, 2012 | Evansville Courier & Press

   Walter L. Dawkins, a Fairfield, Ill., dentist, has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison after pleading guilty to one count of health care fraud and two counts of illegal dispensation of a schedule II controlled substance, hydrocodone.

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   Related Topix: Dentistry, Fairfield, IL, Federal Prisons, Prison, Healthcare Law, Law

7. Southern Illinois man pleads guilty to federal marijuana charges

   Dec 18, 2012 | Evansville Courier & Press

   A Ridgway, Ill. man faces 5 to 40 years in federal prison after entering a guilty plea today to charges he was growing more than 100 marijuana plants in rural Gallatin County.

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   Related Topix: Ridgway, IL, Federal Prisons, Prison, Gallatin County, IL

8. Three indicted in meth case

   Dec 13, 2012 | Evansville Courier & Press

   Warren Michael Morris, 32 of West Salem, Ill., Debra E. Harms, 41 of Olney, Ill., and Patricia Ann Utley, 52 of Olney, Ill.

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   Related Topix: Salem, IL, West Salem, IL, Olney, IL

9. Prosecutors say former sheriff's drugs were prescription anti-depressants, not cocaine

   Dec 5, 2012 | Evansville Courier & Press

   Federal prosecutors now say that former Gallatin County Sheriff Raymond M. Martin was not in possession of cocaine when they searched his Williamson County jail cell on Oct.

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   Related Topix: Drugs, Marijuana, Medicine, Zyban, Wellbutrin, Bupropion (generic), Cymbalta, Duloxetine (generic)

10. Feds say former Southern Illinois sheriff Raymond Martin had drugs in prison cell

    Nov 27, 2012 | Evansville Courier & Press

    The discovery was noted in a 22-page government memorandum filed Tuesday ahead of Martin's Dec.

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    Related Topix: Prison, Drugs, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Federal Prisons

11. Illinois woman sentenced to 11 years in prison for exploding meth lab

    Nov 23, 2012 | Evansville Courier & Press

    Teresa J. Henson, 45 of Jonesboro, Ill., drew a 135-month sentence Tuesday in U.S. District Court at Benton, Ill.

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    Related Topix: Federal Prisons, Prison, Jonesboro, IL

12. Federal lawsuit against ISP detectives thrown out

    Nov 21, 2012 | Evansville Courier & Press

    A federal lawsuit filed by former Wayne County, Ill., Sheriff Jimmy Hinkle, who is also an ex-Illinois State Police master sergeant, against two Illinois State Police detectives has been dismissed.

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    Related Topix: Wayne County, IL, Fairfield, IL, Marion County, IL