Case closed

Longtime prosecutor retires

It didn’t take long for things to get weird when Jay Magnuson started work as a Sangamon County prosecutor.“ ‘I’ve got a doozy for you,’” Magnuson recalls a Springf

Sounding praise and alarms

Pols make nice after election

It was tough to tell the D from the R last Friday at a joint discussion by U.S. Sen. Richard Durbin and former governor Jim Edgar.The conversation sponsored by the Citizens Club at the Hoogland Center

Does UIS stiff laborers?

University support staff claim pay disparity between union, non-union workers

A group of union workers at the University of Illinois Springfield claims many of their non-union counterparts got raises above the university’s own limits. The workers also claim UIS pays suppo

Answers, please

Federal officials seek information on Carlinville mine

A straight flush

GOP sweeps county races, as usual

What does it take for a Democrat to win countywide office in Sangamon County?Pretty much a miracle, unless your last name is Langfelder and you are running unopposed.On paper, at least, things this ye

Illinois preparing health insurance exchange

State will vet private insurance plans in public market

Illinois is preparing to roll out a crucial pillar of the federal health care reforms, but one puzzle piece remains out of place.The state plans to open a health insurance market at the start of 2014,

Innocent, but still guilty

Illinois Innocence Project helps free imprisoned Chicago man with imperfect compromise

Although Anthony Murray walked out of prison on Oct. 31 a free man after 14 years, gaining his freedom required admitting to a murder he says he didn’t commit. “It’s been a long road

Case dismissed

Charges against a physician accused of fraud and conspiracy have been dismissed after federal prosecutors admitted that an FBI agent violated the accused’s constitutional rights by gaining unfet

Star Bucks

Bambi thrives in Illinois

Driving his pickup up a gravel road toward a built-in-a-weekend cabin on a 160-acre piece of land he calls a farm, Jack Robertson spots a pair of does munching on wheat that, along with oats and clove

All gone

Parsons says he’s broke

Jeffrey Parsons and his company, THR and Associates, owe more than $467.2 million to consumers, tax collectors, media outlets and various other entities from coast to coast, according to recently file