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QUINCY — The national spotlight will once again shine on Quincy and the decision by a local judge to overturn a guilty verdict in a sexual assault case. Cameron Vaughan, the 16-year-old Quincy High School student who claimed she was raped by 18-year-old Drew Clinton last summer, will appear Wednesday on “Dr. Phil,” which airs…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — A Hannibal man sitting in his vehicle was captured Monday while he sat in his car with drugs and items believed to have been stolen. Officers with the Hannibal Police Department assigned to the Anti-Crime Enforcement Squad observed Paul J. Sultzman, 39, sitting in a vehicle in the 2100 block of Gordon…
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SPRINGFIELD — Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and Gov. JB Pritzker’s administration are asking a state appellate court to set aside a lower court order from late Friday that invalidated the mask and vaccine mandates that the state imposed last year for public schools. On Friday, Sangamon County Circuit Judge Raylene Grischow granted a temporary…
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Daily Dirt for Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022 We’re only a few days away from the Super Bowl. It’s no secret that a major part of any Super Bowl is the halftime show. The first of today’s three thoughts offers a countdown of the 10 best Super Bowl halftime shows since the game’s inception. Welcome to…
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Arrests and citations issued by the Hancock County Sheriff’s Department.
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Arrests and citations by the Quincy Police Department Bianca L. Brown (31) 312 S. 12th, Quincy for expired registration. PTC 122 Zoey E. Arnold (18) 7228 Bardon Dr, Quincy for fail to yield private driver. PTC 145 Joshua W. Ensley (33) Homeless for FTA seatbelt. Lodged 111
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QUINCY — The Quincy City Council has received a special permit and rezoning request from Recovery Anonymous to locate a sober living facility on the city’s west end. At Monday’s Council meeting, City Planner Chuck Bevelheimer said a special permit is needed for the facility to be located at their desired spot at 1111 N.…
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QUINCY — A former Quincy businessman now living in St. Louis was formally charged Monday with four more counts of non-consensual video taping of females while they were showering at his office. John Rokusek, 59, was arrested Nov. 4 and now faces nine counts of unauthorized videotaping, Class 4 felonies, for the non-consensual video recordings of…
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QUINCY — A Hull, Ill. man facing three felony counts related to a November 28 disturbance in Burton Township appeared in Adams County Circuit Court today and now faces a March arraignment. Adam Terstriep, 35. briefly appeared before Judge Tad Brenner Monday afternoon to schedule the arraignment, which will be before Judge Amy Lannerd on…
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QUINCY — Alan Balzer of Klingner & Associates, P.C., recently earned his professional engineer license from the Missouri Division of Professional Registration. Balzer is based in the firm’s Quincy office. He has seven years of experience providing special inspections and structural design for multi-story industrial and manufacturing facilities, port authorities, and water treatment facilities. His…
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QUINCY — The Historic Quincy Business District, also known as The District, is coordinating with several local small businesses for a “Shop Local Saturday” event on Feb. 12 to coincide with shopping for Valentine’s Day. The event aims to be a smaller-scale version of the annual Small Business Saturday observed across the country on the…
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MENDON, Ill. — St. Edward Church is having its annual pork sale and all-you-can-eat breakfast from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday. The cost for breakfast is $10 for an adult and $5 for children age 10 and under. Pork packages for sale are: Sausage links and bulk, $10 for 2 1/2 pounds. Ribs, $7…
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Feel free to sing along as you work your way through today’s first of three thoughts that make up Vol. 205 of The Daily Dirt. 1. We’re barely into the second month of 2022, and the deaths of celebrities and other well-known personalities continue to mount. Here’s our list of the top 10 passings to…
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Landon Stice (31) 1407 Cherry for Obstructing a Peace Officer Warrants for Fleeing to Elude a Peace Officer, FTA- Fleeing to Elude a Peace Officer, FTA- Disregard a traffic control device, FTA- Drivingwhile license suspended.\], Traffic tickets for operating uninsured motor vehicle, expiredregistration, improper use of registration and improper display of registration at 3rd and…
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QUINCY — The Board of Fire and Police Commissioners released a timeline on Saturday showing a plan for a new chief of the Quincy Police Department to be announced at the May 16 meeting of the Quincy City Council. The process to find the new police chief, however, will change slightly compared to the process…
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CARTHAGE, Ill. — Multiple law enforcement agencies are investigating the death of a Carthage man whose body was found just outside of the Hancock County town on Sunday. The body of Darren K. McGrew, 27, was found just hours after a missing persons report was filed with teh Carthage Police Department Sunday morning. Hancock County…
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QUINCY — The Quincy Symphony Orchestra commemorates Black History Month with its “Courage and Spirit” concert at 3 p.m. Feb. 13 in Quincy Junior High School’s Morrison Theater. The performance features Illinois composer James Stephenson’s “there are no words,” written in response to the Charleston, S.C., shooting on June 17, 2015, when a white supremacist murdered nine Black worshippers…
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The Quincy High School theater department is presenting “Dear Ruth” this week as the traditional winter play returns to the “A Building” stage. “Dear Ruth” is a play by playwright Norman Krasana in which young Miriam Wilkins (Senior Natalie Newendyke) carries a pen pal conversation with the dashing Lt. William Seawright (Senior Harrison Knapp) using…
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QUINCY — Jesse Sullivan is attempting to break out of a crowded field of Republicans hoping to square off against J.B. Pritzker in the fall. Sullivan, a Petersburg native, stayed overnight Saturday in Quincy, attended Mass at St. Peter Parish Sunday morning, had breakfast at The Coach House and made numerous other stops to introduce…
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Daily Dirt for Sunday, Feb. 6, 2022 Growing up, I ate plenty of meals at an F.W. Woolworth snack bar. How about you? … welcome to today’s three thoughts that make up Vol. 204 of The Daily Dirt. 1. It’s been almost 40 years since an F.W. Woolworth store occupied a downtown Quincy site. While…
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QUINCY — J. Matthew Ward, visiting assistant professor of history, will be the featured speaker for Quincy University’s Great Books program from 2 to 3:15 p.m. Feb. 23 in MacHugh Theatre (basement of Francis Hall), 1800 College. Ward’s talk, titled “The 1619 Project – Who Controls History?”, will examine the power of history and the politics surrounding…
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Quincy Public Schools Superintendent Roy Webb released a statement Saturday evening saying District 172 would no longer enforce masking requirements for students and staff and would cease testing of unvaccinated staff. This comes on the heels of Friday’s ruling by a Sangamon County Circuit Court Judge Raylene Grischow that “deemed null and void” Governor J.B. Pritzker’s…
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Just after 4 a.m. Saturday, Quincy Police responded to a call at 2207 Spruce on the report of a disturbance in progress involving a firearm. A female called 911 reporting that her boyfriend threatened her and put a gun to her chest and pushed her out of the house and that another male roommate was…
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