Weber In one of his final acts on the bench, Madison County Circuit Judge Don Weber ordered the Werner-Mick Funeral Home to pay Timothy Werner $1,406,231.30 in a retaliatory discharge dispute.
He may be outmatched by his opponent's fund-raising prowess, but the Republican candidate for Madison County Treasurer believes his message, "It's Your Money. Demand Ethics," will ring with voters Nov. 7.
Judge Weber As the war of words heats up in a contentious judicial battle, Madison County Circuit Judge Don Weber called attorney Dave Hylla's "chameleon-like attempts to hide from his own record" phony and superficial.
Eugene Bollefer and Todd Van Voorhis filed a malicious prosecution complaint against Charles Creekmore of Godfrey in Madison County Circuit Court Oct. 16.
Jacob Bathon Jacob Bathon, the son of Madison County Treasurer Fred Bathon, was arrested for battery Monday after pushing and punching funeral director Mike Weber of Weber Funeral Home on Main Street in Edwardsville.
Judge Weber during his swearing-in ceremony last year. A former prosecutor who spent 25 years ensuring that bad guys served time and good guys got justice is hoping to return to the criminal justice system.
Child killer Paula Sims filed a request for clemency with the Illinois Prisoner Review Board last week claiming she no longer poses a risk to society. She suffered from postpartum depression, she claims in her petition, at the time she drown her two infant daughters first in 1985 and again in 1989.
Judge Moran The Judicial Inquiry Board, the investigative arm of Illinois' court system, has been calling employees at the Madison County courthouse asking questions about former Circuit Judge George Moran, Jr., Dicta has learned.
Former Morgan County State's Attorney Charles Coburn has been named special prosecutor to handle a potential criminal sexual assault case against powerful attorney L. Thomas Lakin.
Tom Lakin A civil sexual assault lawsuit has been refiled in St. Clair County Circuit Court against powerful Democrat attorney and founder of the Lakin Law Firm, Tom Lakin, as well as his sons Brad Lakin and Kristopher Lakin, and the law firm.
Steve Stobbs Godfrey attorney Stephen Stobbs has been elected as an associate judge on a first ballot by the nine circuit judges of the Third Judicial Circuit.
Days after a secretive Madison County civil sexual assault complaint was dismissed, expunged and then preserved by the court, curiosity about the matter has hardly subsided.
Madison County Associate Circuit Judge Ralph Mendelsohn ordered the Madison County Circuit Clerk's office to preserve an expunged sexual assault civil case while a daily newspaper fights a legal battle to gain access to the sealed court file.
"Only lawyers think that way," remarked the downstate handler for dairyman GOP candidate for Governor Jim Oberweis, when Madison County attorney Thomas Maag demanded $250 per day rent for a misplaced campaign sign.
Judge Don Weber, who was sworn into office in November, has been substituted on 66 cases. While he and his colleagues must absorb the caseload spilled by Madison County Circuit Judge Moran's sudden departure, Circuit Judge Don Weber is frustrated that he hasn't been given a chance to share the burden.