“I love this place,” says Jane DeWitt of Mount Pulaski’s cemetery. “I always find something new every time I come out here.” And every time is pretty often, since she lives across the street from the graveyard. Her frequent walks there have led DeWitt to start studying the cemetery’s history.
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Did relationship botch confession?
State police say they are not investigating the personal relationship between two state police officers who were involved in the botched confession of accused murderer Louis Russo.

Another season of West Nile just ahead
Health officials are nearly as worried about complacency as mosquitoes, heading into Illinois’ fourth summer of the deadly West Nile virus.

Family claims inmate died from being ignored
BENTON — The jail inmate was brain dead by the time he was wheeled into the emergency room. He had pneumonia so severe his organs were shutting down, and bed sores on his body.

Music, prayer adorn busy beauty
"This is a busy church, I’ll tell you that right now."

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