Washington Park man pleads guilty to first-degree murder

Harold Ivy, 28, has pled guilty to the 2007 attempted robbery and murder of Washington Park clerk Loai Motan. He was convicted on the charge of first-degree murder and was sentenced to 37 years in prison. During the attempted robbery on May 31, 2007, Ivy fatally shot Motan and injured his brother. Prosecutors attempted to get Ivy the maximum...

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April 28th, 2014

Trial into battery against child continues

Earlier this month, Brittany Wells, the mother of a 14-month-old boy named Kyson who was allegedly the victim of her 26-year-old boyfriend Aaron Tosh’s battery, told a McLean County jury that Tosh caused her son to suffer from a skull fracture and a broken arm. Kyson was recovering from a fall at the time the...

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April 3rd, 2014

Illinois woman pleads guilty to vehicular homicide

Twenty-four-year-old Philo, Illinois resident Katheryn Daly plead guilty to a single count of reckless vehicular homicide on Monday, March 31. The charge is related to an October 6th, 2013 accident that killed her 19-year-old cousin, Annie. Instead of giving Daly a sentence predetermined by state attorney Julia Rietz and attorney Mark Lipton, Champaign County Judge...

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March 21st, 2014

Probable cause found to continue Illinois Casey murder trial

Probable cause was found on Wednesday, March 19 to continue the trial of 19-year-old Thomas Messina. Messina was charged for the murder of 54-year-old Casey resident, Gregory Scott Collins. Messina plead not guilty to the murder charges and asked for a jury trial. The pre-trial hearing is scheduled for April 23. June 10 will mark...

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March 4th, 2014

Humboldt man pleads not guilty to homicide

The second of two suspects in a fatal heroine overdose case plead not guilty on Monday, February 24. Caleb Thomas, 29, of Humboldt denied responsibility for the December 25, 2013 death of Jeremy Reeley. Reeley’s death was caused by a heroine overdose. Both Thomas and Damien Brooks were charged with drug-induced homicide. Police accounts of...

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February 13th, 2014

Urbana jury finds defendant not guilty for gun charges

Thursday, February 6, a Champaign County jury acquitted 28-year-old Andre Winters of two counts of aggravated discharge of a firearm. Winters was accused of shooting at 43-year-old Ernest Moseley on Oct. 12, 2013 in east Urbana. Plaintiff Ernest Mosley, 43, claimed that Winters tried to shoot him after a brief altercation. The attorneys at the...

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January 18th, 2014

Beanie Babies founder could be jailed for tax evasion

Sixty-nine-year-old Beanie Babies creator H. Ty Warner pleaded guilty to tax evasion charges on Tuesday, January 14 in a Chicago, Illinois federal court room for evading $25 million in taxes on income that he kept in Swiss national bank accounts. Warner is facing up to five years of imprisonment. He joins the list of high-profile...

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December 16th, 2013

Man who sexually attacked University of Illinois student sentenced to 60 years in jail

Judge Richard Klaus sentenced 33-year-old Urbana, Illinois resident Gregory Hayes, Jr. to the maximum term of 60 years in prison after being convicted of aggravated criminal sexual assault when he followed a University of Illinois student and sexually attacked her. The lengthy sentence was due in part to a previous conviction in 1996 for the...

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December 15th, 2013

Aron Ralston in jail for suspicion of domestic violence

Thirty-eight-year-old Aron Ralston, the man whose inspiring story of cutting his right forearm off to save his life after being caught by a boulder in a Utah canyon, prompting the movie 127 Hours, has been incarcerated in the Denver County jail since the night of Saturday, December 7 on suspicion of domestic violence. A Denver Police Department...

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December 2nd, 2013

Mahomet man guilty of child porn and sexual exploitation sentenced to jail

A sexual predator who took pictures of nude or partially clothed young women in secret for several years was sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment in a federal jail on Monday, November 25. Fifty-nine-year-old Mahomet resident Michael Denight admitted his guilt to possessing child pornography and in sexually exploiting a minor last May. Denight’s case was...

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