Betty Herrick, a former user of the arthritis medicine Vioxx, claims she suffered a heart attack after using the arthritis pain reliever Vioxx. She filed suit against Merck & Co. in St. Clair County Circuit Court June 8 seeking damages in excess of $200,000.
There are those in Madison County courts and government that don’t seem to think the county deserves its well-earned title of “#1 Judicial Hellhole in the United States,” a title they have held nationally for two years.
Ronald Tenpas Philip Cohn, 42, of St. Louis, was sentenced before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, East St. Louis, to five years imprisonment and five years’ supervised release.
Laura Lee Marrs, 28, of Carlyle, was sentenced in the U.S. District Court in Benton, to 18 months imprisonment; five years supervised release, and ordered to pay $110,750 in restitution for embezzling $106,000 from the Southern Illinois University Credit Union.
Poncevenus Stokes, also known as “Boogie,” 33, of Carbondale, was sentenced May 9 in U.S. District Court in Benton, according to Ronald J. Tenpas, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois.
Kim Robinson, 36, of Grantsburg, pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine; and conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount methamphetamine in U.S. District Court in Benton on May 10.
Andre Monroe, “Dre,” 28, of East St. Louis, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Benton, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Ronald J. Tenpas announced April 20.
Allison Warren-Schlotter, 40, of Collinsville, pled guilty in U.S. District Court in East St. Louis, to a 13-count indictment charging her with health care fraud and acquiring a controlled substance by misrepresentation, fraud and deception.
James "Coop" Cooper, 37, of Carbondale was convicted of possessing and dealing crack cocaine by a federal jury in U.S. District Court in East St. Louis, U.S. Attorney Ronald Tenpas announced March 30.
Justice-elect Lloyd A. Karmeier Retiring Illinois Supreme Court Justice Philip J. Rarick will administer the oath of office to justice-elect Lloyd A. Karmeier, when he is sworn into the state's high court during a ceremony at the Supreme Court Building in Springfield Dec. 6.
The makers of the painkilling drug OxyContin may have a won-loss record of 202-0 in lawsuits against the company, but that hasn't stopped litigation accusing drug maker Purdue Pharma of everything from creating drug addicts to filing fraudulent patents.