Mount Sterling News

Thursday, July 09, 2009 at 8:44 a.m. You'll recall Tuesday Illinois Governor Pat Quinn vetoed a budget from the General Assembly, claiming it didn't go far enough in efforts to balance the state's budget.

Friday, June 26, 2009 at 5:09 p.m. Unemployment rates for the state of Illinois were released this week and Brown County had the lowest in the state.

Tuesday, June 02, 2009 at 6:49 p.m. Illinois lawmakers were in session until nearlyA 3:00 AMA Sunday morning only to end with an incomplete budget.

I have thought about doing this day in weather on my blog. What do you think about that would this interest you guys if I posted that kind of thing on here? Please let me know and of course I will not leave out the golfing stories! This will also include other climate data that might interest you with precipitation totals.

"Hey, what about the tracks on Walnut and Oak Streets. They need to be fixed as well.

Wednesday, May 06, 2009 at 10:12 a.m. QUINCY, Illinois-A Almost 100 catholic school kindergarten students from Quincy and Mt.

Registered child sex offender Joseph D. DeSilvestro said he has been punished enough and now, at 69, just wants to collect Social Security and live quietly in the small apartment he moved into about a week ago upon release from prison.

A DNA hit led to further charges for a Lawndale man already incarcerated in Western Illinois who allegedly sexually assaulted a handicapped woman in Feb.

Three local men were honored Saturday by laborers in the LIUNA Midwest Region, as union members who lost their lives on the job.

State lawmakers are renewing their longtime push to boost the speed limit to 65 mph for large trucks traveling on Illinois' rural interstates, an idea that former Gov.

Tim Wright of Kilbourne walks back to his porch after putting his horse Betty out on her long halter.

State law enforcement authorities are pushing for electronic tracking of a key ingredient in the manufacture of methamphetamine, the highly addictive drug that's afflicted rural communities over the last ...

Travis and Cindy Taylor with his Twin Towers. R.L. Nave Reactions of Travis Taylor's friends and relatives to his artwork have ranged from admiration to puzzlement to, in the case of one piece, anger.

A Rushville man will spend several years in prison for murdering a Mount Sterling man last year.

The Oakley Lindsay Center in Quincy is teaming up with five Illinois wineries to present Vino-Valentino, a wine tasting party on Friday, Feb.

Even before Illinois lawmakers began their political death match with Gov. Rod Blagojevich by considering his impeachment, they worked under a familiar theme in 2008: Stalemate.

CrimeStoppers organizations in Schuyler and Brown counties to seek the public's help in solving a recent burglary and a recent criminal damage.

The state wants to borrow up to $1.4 billion to help pay unpaid bills, even as the federal government approved sending more than $775 million a year over the next five years to help care for Medicaid patients.