A former police officer in a southwestern Illinois village is accused of collecting nearly $190,000 in fraudulent worker’s compensation benefits. A Madison County grand jury indicted 43-year-old Richard Turner of Glen Carbon on Thursday of two counts apiece of theft …
A federal prosecutor says the owner of a southwestern Illinois hauling company has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the city of East St. Louis and to money laundering. U.S. Attorney Stephen Wigginton on Wednesday said Stephen Carraway of Cahokia …
The late-night wait at a drive-through window apparently proved too much for a southwestern Illinois woman now accused of drunkenly passing out while waiting for her order. The Madison County Sheriff’s Department tells the Belleville News-Democrat that deputies found 53-year-old …
A former southwestern Illinois grain elevator owner has been sentenced to a year and three months in federal prison for committing mail fraud. Forty-eight-year-old John Kniepmann of Breese also was ordered in U.S. District Court in East St. Louis to …