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News | Monday, May 13,2013
Shredgate: The saga continues
Court asked to order documents preserved
A man who is suing the city of Springfield for destroying police internal affairs records is asking a judge to bar the city from destroying more documents. In an emergency motion for a protective
News | Thursday, May 9,2013
A plea for African-Americans to get screened for diseases
A diagnosis with stage three Hodgkin lymphoma at the age of 12 led Julius Simmons of Springfield to make a lifetime commitment to health and medical research.While urging a Springfield audience to get
News | Thursday, May 9,2013
State suspends doctor, finally
Action comes after deaths, disfiguration
Dr. Stephen Austin Cullinan, a Peoria physician whose poor care has resulted in death, amputation and scores of lawsuits across the Midwest, has surrendered his license to practice medicine in Illinoi
News | Thursday, May 9,2013
Bringing people back downtown
The effort to revive the heart of Springfield
When Jasper Madonia started working in downtown Springfield in 1939, the downtown was a different place from today. He describes a bustling place so busy that he had to push his way through the crowds
News | Tuesday, May 7,2013
City lacked approval to destroy records
Police files shredded anyway
A local governmental records commission says the Springfield Police Department ignored procedures in destroying records prematurely.
News | Monday, May 6,2013
Houston: We have a problem, maybe
Mayor asks attorney general to probe police
Springfield Mayor Mike Houston has asked attorney general Lisa Madigan to determine whether the city’s police department did anything wrong when it expunged police internal affairs files, appare
News | Sunday, May 5,2013
City council mulls criminal investigation
Attorney general may be asked to probe cops
Springfield aldermen are considering whether to ask attorney general Lisa Madigan to investigate the shredding of police internal affairs files to determine whether the cops broke the law. Und
News | Thursday, May 2,2013
We’re all losers in the War on Drugs
A new documentary chronicles a 40-year failed policy
The “War on Drugs” launched by President Richard Nixon in the 1970s has had a lasting effect on society that can be felt decades later. For many American families the War on Drugs ha
News | Thursday, May 2,2013
Ready, set, shred
City destroys police records
Springfield city council members want answers about the shredding of dozens of police department disciplinary files last week. This comes in the wake of an unexpected change in policy that shortened t
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