David Adam, MRN Editor
QUINCY — Don’t call them the Gems just yet. The most recent Quincy franchise in the Prospect League (formerly the Central Illinois Collegiate League) was called the Gems for 27 years. Golden Rule Entertainment, a Springfield ownership group, announced Friday morning it is finalizing a lease agreement with Quincy University to return summer collegiate baseball in…
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QUINCY — Circuit Judge Holly Henze maintained Thursday afternoon her decision to strike First Assistant State’s Attorney Todd Eyler’s motions for a substitution of judge in two high-profile cases in Adams County Circuit Court, asserting the motions were not timely filed. Eyler filed his motion to replace Henze on Thursday, Oct. 3, after Matthew Steinkamp,…
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QUINCY — James Waller, an assistant appellate defender with the Office of the State Appellate Defender, Fourth District, said a case as important as the Tim Bliefnick murder case should be tried before a judge “whose career is not resting in the hands of the prosecutor trying the case.” Allison Paige Brooks, assistant appellate prosecutor…
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QUINCY — Jack Holtschlag (D-7) said he didn’t know how the vote would go when he made a motion to have another vote for the City of Quincy to partner with Adams County to build a roundabout at the intersection of 48th and State. “I go by there three or four times a day, and not…
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QUINCY — Three people asked the Quincy City Council during its Tuesday meeting to approve giving landmark status to St. Boniface Church, but one alderman has already said the proposed ordinance likely won’t get his vote. Suzanne Irwin-Wells, Paul Geers and Janet Conover — all members of the Quincy Preservation Commission — made their pleas…
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QUINCY — Six days after Circuit Judge Holly Henze struck down his motion for a substitution of judge in two cases, First Assistant State’s Attorney Todd Eyler filed a motion Tuesday morning with the Adams County Circuit Clerk’s Office for Henze to reconsider her order, saying she “had not acted consistently in other cases.” Eyler…
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ST. CHARLES, Mo. — One more person will stand trial in the St. Charles County Courthouse later this month for the 2022 death of a Hannibal man. Jason D. Anderson, 26, of Hannibal, has been charged with first-degree assault and second-degree murder — the same charges Tiara Bonner was found guilty of after nearly 5½ hours…
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QUINCY — Since selling her business, Celia’s Gifts and More, at 117 N. Fourth in 2013 and spending half of her time in Phoenix, Celia Neff has learned she needs to stay busy. “I can’t sit around,” she said. “I wanted the sunshine. I wanted to relax, but I found myself still getting into things.…
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ST. CHARLES, Mo. — Mary Wilson wanted jurors to know her son wasn’t just a name on a marble slab in the cemetery. Tracy Wilson wanted them to know her husband was the closest to a perfect human being she’s ever known. Taylor Wilson said she and her father were “like peanut butter and jelly.”…
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ST. CHARLES, Mo. — Assistant Attorney General Corie Geary told a jury of six men and six women that Tiara Bonner was “looking for a fight” in the early-morning hours of Oct. 9, 2022. “Nobody is going to f**k with my family!” Geary shouted at the jury, repeating a statement she said Bonner made that…
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ST. CHARLES, Mo. — Kaelin Rickey admitted during her testimony on Thursday that she kicked Dusty Wilson as he laid motionless on Main Street during the early morning hours of Oct. 9, 2022. Where she kicked Wilson remains unclear, depending on which version of the many times she’s talked about that night. Three witnesses testified…
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ST. CHARLES, Mo. — A former medical examiner for the city of St. Louis told a jury of six men and six women that he “fundamentally agreed” with the cause of death reported by the Boone County pathologist who recently completed an autopsy on Dusty Wilson. However, he disagreed with the report from a neuropathologist now living…
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Testimony in the Tiara Bonner trial concluded late Thursday afternoon, and a story about Thursday’s testimony will be published on Muddy River News on Friday morning. But first, an apology is in order. An Oct. 8, 2023 story, written by me for Muddy River News, reported Thomas Payne had been found guilty of third-degree assault in…
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ST. CHARLES, Mo. — Watching the body camera video from Allison Hamm, an officer with the Hannibal Police Department, as she attended to a lifeless Dusty Wilson on the morning of Oct. 9, 2022, brought tears to the eyes of many members of Wilson’s family Wednesday afternoon in a St. Charles County Courthouse courtroom. It…
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ST. CHARLES, Mo. — Karli Rickey said she went to Rumor Has It Bar and Grill on Hannibal’s Main Street in the early morning hours of Oct. 9, 2022, to pick up a bag of clothes from her sister, Kaelin. Moments later, Karli saw Dusty Wilson die in the street just 10 feet away as…
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ST. CHARLES, Mo. — Marion County Prosecuting Attorney Luke Bryant told jurors during his opening statement in the Tiara Bonner trial that a confrontation outside Rumor Has It Bar and Grill in Hannibal during the early morning hours of Oct. 9, 2022, was anything but a typical bar fight. “There is nothing normal about four…
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ST. CHARLES, Mo. — Two men who had spent all day with Dusty Wilson and tried to prevent him from getting into a fight couldn’t definitively say they saw Tiara Bonner slap Wilson outside Rumor Has It Bar and Grill in Hannibal on the morning of Oct. 9, 2022. A woman who said she “saw…
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ST. CHARLES, Mo. — A jury of six men and six women was selected Monday afternoon for the trial of a Hannibal woman facing first-degree assault and second-degree murder charges after her alleged involvement in an October 2022 bar fight. Opening statements are scheduled to begin Tuesday morning. The trial is expected to last five…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — Hannibal Regional Healthcare System received a favorable 5-0 vote from the Missouri Health Facilities Review Committee last Tuesday to approve a Certificate of Need application to build a new cancer center in Kirksville that would provide radiation oncology services. Hannibal Regional received a $15 million state appropriation for the cancer center when…
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QUINCY — Air carriers have until Nov. 14 to file a proposal with the U.S. Department of Transportation to provide essential air service (EAS) at Quincy Regional Airport. The official order requesting proposals was made public Friday. The order noted that Quincy Mayor Mike Troup explained in an Aug. 21 letter that Southern Airways Express, which…
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Dear MRN: A convicted murderer recently was paroled and is living in Quincy. He served only 27 years in prison for the brutal murder of a woman in Quincy. He originally was sentenced to 60 years without parole. How does this happen? First, let’s review the case. Marvin Lawrence Betts was sentenced in Adams County…
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QUINCY — Despite a passionate plea from a retired city engineer to reconsider building a roundabout, the Finance Committee agreed Monday night to send to the full Quincy City Council a recommendation for the transfer of jurisdiction for the intersection of 48th and State. Aldermen voted on April 1 not to contribute $2.6 million to build…
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QUINCY — Two aldermen changed their minds on Monday night and were the swing votes in an 8-6 decision by the Quincy City Council to approve the low bid from Blick’s Construction for $143,413 to demolish a sludge pump station south of Clat Adams Bicentennial Park on the riverfront — using money from the city’s…
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QUINCY — The adoption of an ordinance calling for the end of the electrical aggregation program for the city of Quincy was tabled until May 5, and aldermen directed the city administration not to enter any more aggregation contracts when the current contract with Constellation expires on Jan. 1. The Quincy City Council voted Sept.…
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SHELBYVILLE, Mo. — A request to have the bond reduced for a Hannibal attorney charged with five felonies involving a traffic crash on Sept. 13 in Shelby County was denied a reduction in bond Friday afternoon. Tyler White, 33, of Hannibal appeared in Shelby County Circuit Court by video with Kirksville attorney Mark Williams before…
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QUINCY — The Quincy Riverfront Development Corporation voted unanimously during its Wednesday afternoon meeting at the Quincy Boat Club to spend $10,000 with Klingner and Associates, an architecture and engineering company, to update the Riverfront Master Plan if necessary. It’s the first step toward the corporation’s plan to build an interactive play area — originally planned to…
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PITTSFIELD, Ill. — A Pleasant Hill man charged with 48 domestic violence and sex-related offenses was arraigned Tuesday morning, and his request for pretrial release was denied. Austin L. Rodhouse, 30, appeared in Pike County Circuit Court with his attorney Drew Schnack before Circuit Judge Frank McCartney and pled not guilty to each charge. Schnack…
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QUINCY — Quincy Mayor Mike Troup informed the Quincy City Council on Monday night that he received email confirmation on Sept. 18 that the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Essential Air Service program has accepted the city’s request to begin work to replace Southern Airways Express as the air carrier for Quincy Regional Airport. “They are…
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QUINCY — The Quincy City Council defeated by a 7-6 vote on Monday night a resolution that would have used money from the city’s water fund to pay for razing an inoperative sludge pump station south of Clat Adams Bicentennial Park and returned a $350,000 grant to the Quincy Riverfront Development Corporation. Aldermen approved a low…
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QUINCY — Dan Pflibsen, owner of Dan’s Auto Care at 2600 N. 24th for 32 years, had been looking to get out of the business for a couple of years but wasn’t having any luck finding a buyer. Then he tossed out what he called “a BS question” to Colby Kuhlmeier, owner of Kuhly’s Import Specialist.…
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