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Youth pastor facing sexual abuse, pornography charges agrees to plea capping prison sentence at 14 years

September 26, 2023 | By David Adam, MRN Editor

QUINCY — A youth pastor at a Quincy church facing sexual abuse and pornography charges has agreed to a plea negotiation that will cap his sentence to the Illinois Department of Corrections at 14 years. Isaiah Mikkelson, 22, of 3340 Wynstone Drive appeared with Springfield-based attorney William Vig on Tuesday morning in Adams County Circuit…

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'I don't feel like we finished the job': Jury finds Banta guilty in Mount Sterling prison beating death, can't reach unanimous decision on Sheffler

April 25, 2022 | By David Adam, MRN Editor

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — About 45 minutes after an eight-man, four-woman jury found a former corrections officer at the Western Illinois Correctional Center guilty of all five charges against him, two jurors were frustrated no decision was reached regarding the fate of a lieutenant at the same prison. “I don’t feel like we finished the job,”…

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