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July 17, 2023 | By Muddy River News
QUINCY — An Adams County jury took 2 hours and 45 minutes to find Bradley Yohn guilty of all six felony counts at a trial that lasted a week. Yohn was charged with home invasion, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated vehicular hijacking and aggravated criminal sexual assault with a weapon — all Class X felonies — that…
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 16, 2023 | By Muddy River News
MENDON, Ill. — Eight contestants will compete for the title of 2023 Miss Adams County Fair Queen on Wednesday, July 26. The Little Miss and Mr. Adams County Pageant starts at 6 p.m., followed by the Miss Adams County Fair Queen Pageant at 7 p.m. The Adams County Fair runs from July 26 to Aug. 1 at…
Read Full Article July 16, 2023 | By Brittany Boll
QUINCY — The 8te Open food truck now has a storefront home. Owners Jared and Kim Tipton are bringing life back to the corner of 601 Maine. The former location for Grown and Gathered has sat vacant for more than two years after a plan to convert it into a Pickelman’s Pantry Organic Test Kitchen fell…
Read Full Article July 16, 2023 | By J. Robert Gough, Publisher
The President/CEO of Titan International talks about he business climate, the Quincy wheel plant and doing business in Illinois (which he has good things to say about). Mercantile Bank sponsors the Business Spotlight.
Read Full Article July 15, 2023 | By J. Robert Gough, Publisher
The president of John Wood Community College talks about how he is fitting in at the college and his plans moving forward.
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 Mike Troup, Mayor, City of Quincy
Quincy Mayor Mike Troup has issued a statement that his office requested go to media as well as the Quincy City Council. The statement is below.
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 July 11, 2023 | By Muddy River News
QUINCY — Bradley Yohn is charged with home invasion, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated vehicular hijacking and aggravated criminal sexual assault with a weapon — all Class X felonies. He allegedly committed the crimes on Nov. 9, 2021, at the home of Christine “Tina” Lohman Schmitt. Yohn could be sentenced to serve between six and 30 years in…
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 J. Robert Gough, Publisher
QUINCY – Before a packed Quincy City Council chambers, the city’s aldermen voted 7-6-1 that they had no longer had confidence in the administration of Mayor Mike Troup. While the unprecedented action has no real consequences, it sends a message that the city’s governing body hasn’t been pleased with the first two years of the…
Read Full Article July 10, 2023 | By Mark McDonald and Randy Phillips
Mark McDonald and Randy Phillips take you to Edwards Place in this month’s Muddy River Gems. Edwards Place, built in 1833 and remodeled in 1857, is an historic house museum that tells the story of social and domestic life in Abraham Lincoln’s Springfield, Illinois. Restored to its antebellum glory, this Italianate mansion was one a center…
Read Full Article July 10, 2023 | By Megan Duncan Muddy River News Correspondent
MONROE CITY, Mo. — California’s Proposition 12, which imposes livestock confinement regulations on farmers around the country who sell to the state, became the law of the land on July 1. Scott Hays is a fifth generation pork producer at Two Mile Pork in Monroe City, and when it comes to livestock, he believes local…
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