David Adam, MRN Editor
July 24, 2023 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
I see signs around town that say things like “F**K Joe Biden.” I don’t want my grandchild to see bumper stickers like that around town. Can the Quincy Police Department do anything to make people take down signs with vulgarity? Adam Yates, chief of the Quincy Police Department, says he has discussed this topic with…
Read Full Article July 20, 2023 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — Bradley Yohn is no longer in Adams County. He was taken to Graham Correctional Center, a medium security adult male correctional facility two miles southeast of Hillsboro on Route 185, on Tuesday morning — less than 24 hours after an Adams County jury found him guilty in his criminal sexual assault trial. “Thank…
Read Full Article July 18, 2023 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
This is in response to the release from Mayor Mike Troup on July 13, 2023, following the no-confidence vote by the city council and appeal by the members of the PB&PA Unit 12 for expanded residency. Mayor Troup said the city “chose” not to negotiate in the public. The fact is the city wasn’t negotiating…
Read Full Article July 18, 2023 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
BOWLING GREEN, Mo. — A Quincy man was shot by law enforcement officers early Tuesday morning and now is hospitalized after a car chase ended near Bowling Green, Mo. Pike County Sheriff Steve Korte said his department was contacted at 2 a.m. Tuesday by the Quincy Police Department. “They were looking for this guy on…
Read Full Article July 18, 2023 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — The first order of business after arriving at Chicks on the River Monday afternoon was to raise a glass to Mom. Nineteen months after Christine “Tina” Lohman Schmitt, was heinously attacked in her home on Nov. 9, 2021, her four adult children gathered to celebrate the end of the nightmare and a chance…
Read Full Article July 18, 2023 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — Bradley Yohn was determined to convince an Adams County jury he was not the man who sexually assaulted Christina “Tina” Lohman Schmitt and invaded her home on Nov. 9, 2021. He started his closing statement by telling the jury he would call the person who actually committed those crimes of a “piece of…
Read Full Article July 17, 2023 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — Josh Jones and Laura Keck were getting a little nervous. Testimony was complete and closing arguments had been delivered in the Bradley Yohn criminal sexual assault case Monday morning in Adams County Circuit Court. The two assistant state’s attorneys were awaiting the jury’s verdict while relaxing in the basement of the courthouse in…
Read Full Article July 17, 2023 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — An Adams County jury began deliberation Monday afternoon in the Bradley Yohn criminal sexual assault trial. The 10-man, two-woman jury has been charged with determining the guilt or innocence of Yohn, 36. He is facing charges of home invasion with a dangerous weapon, home invasion predicated on criminal sexual assault, aggravated vehicular hijacking,…
Read Full Article July 16, 2023 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — The criminal sexual assault trial of Bradley Yohn had strange twists and turns last week, but no one can predict what is coming Monday when Yohn continues his defense in Adams County Circuit Court. Monday will be the sixth day of Yohn’s trial before a 10-man, two-woman jury. Yohn, 36, is charged with…
Read Full Article July 15, 2023 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — Bradley Yohn spent several minutes during his defense in his criminal sexual assault trial on Friday attempting to show proof that Tim Schmitt did not make a 911 call on Nov. 9, 2021 — the night his wife was allegedly assaulted by Yohn and an accomplice. Later in the day, however, Yohn introduced…
Read Full Article July 14, 2023 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — Experts in shoe impressions, DNA testing and fingerprints from the Illinois State Police helped the prosecution wrap up its case Thursday morning during the Bradley Yohn criminal sexual assault trial in Adams County Circuit Court. Yohn began his own defense on Thursday afternoon by mostly rehashing testimony already presented by the prosecution. Yohn,…
Read Full Article July 13, 2023 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — Throughout the testimony given during the Bradley Yohn sexual assault trial on Wednesday, the defendant dropped hints of his own defense strategy to come. Yohn, 36, is charged with home invasion with a dangerous weapon, home invasion predicated on criminal sexual assault, aggravated vehicular hijacking, aggravated criminal sexual assault with a weapon and…
Read Full Article July 12, 2023 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — Assistant State’s Attorneys Josh Jones and Laura Keck showed video, photos, evidence and science discovered in its prosecution of the Bradley Yohn sexual assault trial as they laid the foundation of their case Wednesday in Adams County Circuit Court. Yohn, 36, is charged with home invasion with a dangerous weapon, home invasion predicated…
Read Full Article July 12, 2023 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — When Tim Schmitt came home on the night of Nov. 9, 2021, he entered the home through a door in the garage that he noticed had been kicked in. When he went inside, he found his wife sitting on the floor crying. She said to him, “They raped me.” Schmitt, the husband of…
Read Full Article July 11, 2023 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — When Tina Lohman Schmitt’s car had mechanical problems on Koch’s Lane on the night of Nov. 9, 2021, she noticed a car approaching. “How do you think she felt? Was she relieved? Did she think she was going to get help?” Assistant State’s Attorney Laura Keck asked during her 11-minute opening statement Tuesday…
Read Full Article 'This is the Tina Lohman show': Family anxious for justice as Yohn sexual assault trial gets started
July 11, 2023 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — The children of Christine “Tina” Lohman Schmitt are finally ready to see the man charged with sexually assaulting their mother go to trial. “We are glad this day is here, because this is not the Bradley Yohn show,” said Heidi Young, the oldest of Schmitt’s four children. “This is the Tina Lohman show.…
Read Full Article July 11, 2023 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — A jury of 10 males and two females were selected Monday to hear testimony in the aggravated criminal sexual assault case of Bradley Yohn. Yohn is charged with home invasion with a dangerous weapon, home invasion predicated on criminal sexual assault, aggravated vehicular hijacking, aggravated criminal sexual assault with a weapon and residential…
Read Full Article July 11, 2023 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — A Quincy man facing three counts of murder since 2019 had been hospitalized in Blessing Hospital since the week of May 15, but he was released Monday as the charges against him were dropped. Adams County State’s Attorney Gary Farha says Carlos Williams is a free man because the cost to keep him…
Read Full Article July 10, 2023 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — Six people have shown interest in filling the vacant seat on the Quincy Park Board, which will pick a replacement during its Wednesday meeting. Trent Lyons, Ron Bridal, Margarita Oguilve, Richard Schmitt, Cisco Fuller and Josh Zanger all met a 5 p.m. deadline on Wednesday, July 5, to submit information to the Park…
Read Full Article July 9, 2023 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — Both Greg Fletcher and Richie Reis know Monday’s vote regarding their confidence in Mike Troup as the mayor of Quincy is only symbolic. Regardless of the vote totals, Troup will still be the mayor at end of Monday’s meeting of the Quincy City Council. However, both aldermen believe their vote signifies something else.…
Read Full Article July 8, 2023 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — A miscalculation on the number of sprinkler heads needed for the irrigation of all 27 holes at Westview Golf Course has dropped the projected cost of the project by nearly $1 million. Les Hill of Navasota, Texas, recently completed design work for the proposed system. During a June 14 presentation to the Quincy Park…
Read Full Article July 7, 2023 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
PLEASE READ THIS CAUTIONARY NOTE: Readers should understand this story and video contains vulgar language that may offend and shock some readers. Muddy River News believes it is necessary to report this information as it was provided in the Adams County Courthouse. Quoted material is from the court proceedings. QUINCY — Bradley Yohn aggressively resisted…
Read Full Article July 6, 2023 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — The Quincy Police Department is searching for a person dressed in a bunny suit who broke into the Winners Wash Laundromat, 2338 Spring, early Thursday morning. Yes, you read that correctly. A bunny suit. “We were all kind of speechless when we saw it,” said Officer Brent Holtman, who is handling the investigation.…
Read Full Article July 6, 2023 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — A special meeting of the Adams County Board with only one item on the agenda — a discussion about a recent report on mold in the courthouse — lasted 14 minutes Wednesday night. Most of those in attendance left with more questions than answers, especially concerning a video meeting with a county committee…
Read Full Article July 3, 2023 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — The Adams County Courthouse was oddly quiet Monday. So many employees in the Adams County Circuit Clerk’s office were gone that the office closed for lunch, which it never does. Public Defender Christopher Pratt said most of the eight people in that office did not make it to work Monday. Most people used…
Read Full Article July 3, 2023 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — Quincy Mayor Mike Troup says he plans to announce his decision about running for a second term “sometime in August.” Troup set his own deadline during his appearance on “Spilling the Tea with Steve Kennedy,” a Quincy Tea Party-sponsored show on Rumble, an online video network. He told Kennedy he hasn’t decided. “I do enjoy…
Read Full Article July 2, 2023 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
MRN Editor David Adam chats with the new executive director for Cornerstone, Dr. Melissa McKelvie, and they discuss her plans for the organization.
Read Full Article June 30, 2023 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — Bradley Yohn said he was being “railroaded” into being prepared for trial on July 10 after Judge Roger Thomson denied his motion for a continuance on Friday. Yohn, 36, appeared in Adams County Circuit Court to defend himself pro se for a pre-trial hearing. Public Defender Todd Nelson, serving as standby counsel for…
Read Full Article June 30, 2023 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
Dear MRN: I saw the pothole truck wrecked the other day on Locust in Quincy. Do you know how long it will be down for? Kevin McClean, director of Central Services, said the city’s pothole truck was rear ended in early June. “Pretty much ruined the whole back end of it,” he said. “The assembly…
Read Full Article June 30, 2023 | By David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — When Doug Greenwell heads to lunch on Friday to meet with friends, just as he’s done for the past 17 years, things will be different. It won’t be noticeable to most. He’ll still share a meal and have a few laughs during the noon hour at the Elks Club. However, he’ll be gathering…
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