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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,…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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'This is the Tina Lohman show': Family anxious for justice as Yohn sexual assault trial gets started
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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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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.…
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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…
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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…
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QUINCY – The proposed agenda for next week’s Quincy City Council meeting has an item that calls for aldermen to take a vote regarding their confidence in Mayor Mike Troup. At the July 3 meeting, the past and current presidents of the Quincy Police Benevolent and Protective Association Labor Unit 12, asked the council to…
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QUINCY — A Quincy man agreed to a sentence of 24 months of probation Thursday after pleading guilty to a Class 4 felony of criminal damage to property. Jack R. Blanke, 39, appeared in Adams County Circuit Court wearing a stained neon hoodie and camo shorts alongside Public Defender Christopher Pratt on Thursday in front…
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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.…
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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…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — Hannibal Mayor Pro Tem Mike Dobson confirmed Wednesday at the Hannibal City Council meeting he will request for a judge rehear impeachment charges against Third Ward Councilman Stephan Franke. Marion County Associate Judge John J. Jackson granted a motion to dismiss impeachment charges against Franke on June 6, who represents the 3rd…
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