EAST ST. LOUIS – While former Alton police officer Ashley Roever defends criminal charges from a crash that killed Toshorn Napper Jr., police chiefs and tavern owners defend a civil suit claiming they caused it too.
EDWARDSVILLE – Former Madison County administrator Doug Hulme and former information technology director Rob Dorman claim their terminations violate the Open Meetings Act.
BENTON – Former Madison County secretary Andrew Kane and the county agreed to settle his retaliation suit on Aug. 21, six days before trial would have started. They reached the agreement while Daly pondered rules for the trial.
BENTON – Madison County government and state’s attorney Tom Gibbons must both defend a retaliation suit of former secretary Andrew Kane, U.S. District Judge Phil Gilbert ruled on July 26.
The state's stop gap budget deal that will cover the next six months helped avert disaster for schools, universities and other vital operations, but it also laid groundwork for another epic budget battle.
An order by Madison County Circuit Judge John Barberis requiring Farmers Automobile Insurance to pay $75,000 in underinsured motorist coverage to a girl struck by a rural postal worker's vehicle has been upheld by the Fifth District Appellate Court.
BENTON – Madison County state’s attorney Tom Gibbons answered a retaliation suit from former employee Andrew Kane with praise for the person who fired him.
MOUNT VERNON – Madison County associate judge Martin Mengarelli failed to listen to a husband in a divorce before granting his wife full authority to sell their home, Fifth District appellate judges ruled in March.
Jurors in federal court awarded $450,000 to former Madison County comptroller Linda Dunnagan, on a discrimination claim against county treasurer Kurt Prenzler.
Francis Ford Coppola, Oscar winning director and screenwriter and wine maker extraordinaire, had a less than successful yet very good film in 1987 with “Gardens of Stone.” Dealing with the Old Guard, the Army unit assigned to the ceremonial duties at Arlington National cemetery, the story centers on a back story to the Vietnam conflict, the tension between preserving the living at all costs and honoring the dead for their payment of the “last full measure of devotion.” A good picture,
Madison County State’s Attorney Tom Gibbons on Tuesday honored State Senator Bill Haine (D-Alton) and Circuit Judge Bill Mudge with "Retired State’s Attorney Badges."
MT. VERNON – St. Clair County associate judge Brian Babka unfairly rejected a woman’s evidence and testimony in a dispute over a dead man’s assets, Fifth District appellate judges ruled on Aug. 11. They honored a receipt that Babka ignored, showing Sandea White of Belleville surrendered a coin collection and vehicle titles to the estate of John Tate.
Story CopyThe Illinois Telecommunications Access Corporation (ITAC) is offering a new amplified telephone at no cost to seniors and others with hearing loss living in Madison County.
Forty-six attorneys have filed applications for the five associate judge vacancies in the Third Judicial Circuit, including the ones who were not re-appointed to terms that would have begun July 1 - Duane L.
The Alton chapter of the 100 Black Men of America calls the recent move to not retain five Madison County associate judges a “smoke screen” to cover an alleged racially motivated act.
