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QUINCY – Adams County Sheriff’s officers and Quincy Police have made an arrest in connection with a May shooting that killed a Quincy woman. A raid at a South side Quincy apartment Monday afternoon led to the arrest of Victor A. Weems III in the shooting death of Dana Lawton. Quincy Police Chief Adam Yates…
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QUINCY — Arts Quincy has announced receiving a $50,000 grant for an engineering study of a riverfront amphitheater at Clat Adams Park. The grant was awarded by the Illinois Arts Council Agency from the Rebuild Illinois Capital Planning Fund. Arts Quincy, Quincy Riverfront Development Corporation and the City of Quincy worked together to acquire the…
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QUINCY — Roberto Leon said he has been looking for two years to find the right place for one of his Mexican restaurants. He finally found it on one of Quincy’s busiest streets. Leon, 40, took possession two weeks ago of the building at 3311 Broadway that most recently was the site of IHOP. He…
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QUINCY—Saturday night was one that Nicole Taylor and Alexis Lucie will never forget. Taylor, 19, was crowned Miss Quincy, and Lucie, 17, was crowned Miss Quincy’s teen. Taylor is the daughter of Jon Taylor and Stacey Liggett, and is a marketing major at John Wood Community College. Lucie is the daughter of Chuck and Tammy…
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QUINCY — A Quincy man facing between one and three years in the Illinois Department of Corrections, if found guilty of a Class 4 felony grooming charge, was allowed Friday to return to classes at the University of Illinois. First, however, the state’s flagship school at Urbana-Champaign must be willing to take him back. Giorgio…
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QUINCY — Debbie Reed, president and CEO of Chaddock for the past 12 years, died on Thursday. Reed, 58, had worked for Chaddock since 1994, also serving as chief operating officer, director of planning and special projects, director of marketing and associate director of public relations and marketing. She was named chief operating officer in September 2004…
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QUINCY — The West Central Illinois Task Force stays out of the public’s attention for most of the year. Members are assigned to the task force by their respective law enforcement agencies. When on the job, they typically wear regular clothes instead of a uniform, and they typically drive an unmarked vehicle. (They don’t even…
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QUINCY — Rusty Williams said he and his wife, Paula, are going out on their terms. Williams announced Thursday that Revelry at 119-121 N. Fourth, an upscale bar on the north side and a sports bar on the other half of the establishment, is closed. He said they had a good New Year’s Eve event…
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QUINCY — Miss Quincy Scholarship Program officials have announced the contestants for the annual Miss Quincy and Miss Quincy’s Teen Competition, presented by Gully Transportation. The event will begin at 6 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 6. The Miss Quincy Scholarship Program welcomes 13 delegates to the competition, which will take place at the Quincy Community Theatre. The theme for the event is “Long Live Cowgirls” and will feature…
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QUINCY — “And there is a time to dance. And there was a time for this law, but not any more.” — Ren McCormack from the movie “Footloose.” Nancy Callaway claims she is being discriminated against as a minority because she wants to open a Latin-themed nightclub at 428 Maine. Callaway and her husband, Keith,…
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QUINCY — After Quincy Police Chief Adam Yates finished swearing in three new QPD officers, Mayor Mike Troup asked the chief about the department’s manpower status. “This swearing in and these three officers puts us at 73 sworn officers in the Quincy Police Department, which for us is full-staff, which we haven’t been at in…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — A conversation began Tuesday night at the Hannibal City Council meeting regarding the burden of derelict properties on Hannibal taxpayers. The city of Hannibal currently lists nearly 70 private properties and vacant lots owned by the city, with three scheduled for demolition. “Presently we tear down these old houses and end up…
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QUINCY, Ill. — Dutton Ray Eugene Black was the first baby born in 2024 at Blessing Hospital’s Blessed Beginnings maternity center. Dutton was born at 10:59 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 1, according to a press release from Blessing Hospital. He weighed 6 pounds and 1 ounce and was 18 inches long at birth. He is the…
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Pillsbury opened its milling operation in Springfield in 1929 and employed 1500 workers in 1950. In 1991, Pillsbury sold the plant to Cargill, who operated it from 1991 to 2001, before selling it for scrap in 2008. The City of Springfield has been trying to repurpose the facility for two decades. Mark McDonald and Randy Phillips…
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Since the crime and tragedy stories involving the Bliefnick murder case and Bradley Yohn’s antics dominated 2023 and were also in the overall top 50 list we did, here are the most read crime stories that didn’t involve those two cases. These rankings are based on MRN’s Google analytics. The Top 10 1. Quincy businessman killed…
Read Full Article Letters to the editor and opinion pieces allow us to have give and take with our readers without getting all gross in the cesspool of social media comments and responding to people named “Catturd.” Did I say that out loud? My bad. Here are the Top 10 letters and opinion pieces as determined by MRN…
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MRN’s Ron Kinscherf talks to Dr. Justin Felsman with Limitless Medical about how chiropractic care has evolved and the other services offered. Mercantile Bank sponsors the Business Spotlight.
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Visitation for Dennis Oliver will be January 5 from 3-7 p.m. at Duker & Haugh Funeral Home. A Celebration of Life will take place at the Ambiance on January 6 from 2-5 p.m. Some of D.O.’s friends gave Muddy River News some kind words about their friend. “D.O. was the best. We were like brothers. Heck,…
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Ashley, Bobby and Brittany reflect on 2023, the good, the bad and the ugly in a very special edition of Club Muddy.
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QUINCY — Dennis Oliver, the morning radio host who entertained the Tri-States for 40 years and just made people feel good when he was around them, died Thursday in Quincy. Oliver, 69, retired from the airwaves in 2016 and revealed he was battling Alzheimer’s Disease a year later. A Pittsfield, Ill. native, Oliver, known as…
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MRN Top 50 stories: Behavior of adults in prep sports, Bliefnick case lead list of most read in 2023
Listed below are the most-read stories on Muddy River News for 2023. The rankings are provided by our analytics, not anyone’s opinion. Not surprisingly, the tragic murder of Becky Bliefnick by her estranged husband, Tim Bliefnick, and his subsequent trial were the dominant overall news stories of the year. But as far as one singular…
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Local government was rather contentious in 2023. A reflection of the frustration many feel with the polarized politics in today’s world. A lack of consensus or willingness to achieve goals for the common good unfortunately seem to prevail. Anyway, here are the most read governmental stories of 2023, according to MRN Analytics. 1. A couple…
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There were many new business developments in Quincy in 2023 and Muddy River News told you about most of them. Here are the ones that interested you the most, based on our analytics. 1. Quincy City Planner Chuck Bevelheimer said in August (without personally saying it was Raising Cane’s) the prospective restaurant must work within Target’s…
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QUINCY — Rather than pay success fees to NextSite LLC for the next two years, the Quincy City Council voted Monday night to pay a one-time contract termination fee. Aldermen on Dec. 5 tabled for one week a vote to pay a $15,000 success fee to NextSite, a commercial development advisory firm, for its role…
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QUINCY — The Quincy City Council approved for the city to enter a three-year contract with MasTrack of Danbury, Conn., for $82,190 on GPS tracking equipment on city vehicles. Marty Stegeman, director of transit for the city, said after Monday night’s meeting he expects to present to aldermen on Jan. 8 a proposal to “considerably…
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