Forsyth News

Local headlines Tuesday, September 15 SHERIFF, STATE REP. PROPOSE TOUGH LEGISLATION AGAINST CRIMINALS Responding to a series of vicious attacks that left one man dead and another seriously injured, State Representative Bill Mitchell and Macon County Sheriff Thomas Schneider are proposing legislation that would get tough on violent criminals.

Mitchell and Schneider want to make life hard for incarcerated criminals by implementing tent cities and chain gangs within the Illinois Department of Corrections.

The front page of today's print edition of the Decatur Tribune is now posted in PDF form.

An elderly gunman, said by authorities to have a violent and virulently anti-Semitic past, stepped inside the crowded U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday, opened fire with a rifle and fatally wounded a security guard before being shot by other officers.

Two sisters are taking their message of hope to a big screen near you. The pair wrote the song "Price of Peace" to show the struggle families face when a loved one is deployed.

More than two thousand children are reported missing everyday in the U.S. But the story of one boy still grips Decatur.