Knox County News

Those who are traveling this Thanksgiving should not find the roads full of orange construction barrels.

JOLIET – Murder defendant Nicholas T. Sheley is headed for hard time. The accused spree killer, sentenced last month to 7 years in prison for aggravated battery, has been moved from the Knox County jail to Stateville Correctional Center.

A Knox County judge has granted a motion to appoint a special prosecutor to handle the case of a county official accused of theft.

The Knox County recorder has been arrested and accused of stealing funds from the Knox County Democratic Party.

After a shortage of the H1N1 vaccine throughout central Illinois, doses are now being distributed by the dozens.

Nicholas Sheley, 30, of Sterling, IL is accused of a two-state killing spree in June 2008 that left 8 people dead.

Could you give Nicholas Sheley a fair trial? Maybe that's not a fair question. After all, you read this newspaper, which treats the eight-time murder defendant as the local celebrity he is – not the famous kind, the infamous.

Knox County Health Department will hold several H1N1 vaccination clinics this Saturday, November 7th from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon throughout the County.

Nicholas Sheley, 30, of Sterling; charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder, two counts of aggravated kidnapping, two counts of aggravated vehicular kidnapping, armed robbery, robbery, and possession of a stolen motor vehicle in the death of Ronald Randall, 65, of Galesburg, who was killed in late June 2008.

GALESBURG – As Nicholas T. Sheley lay in wait to ambush correctional officers in the Knox County Jail last spring, he had two goals in mind – to hurt someone and to “wreak havoc,” Judge Stephen Mathers said Friday.

MORRISON – A doctor's revised opinion that Nicholas Sheley may be fit to testify after all means the spree-killing defendant won't be back in Whiteside County court today as planned.

GALESBURG, Ill. - U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood talked Tuesday at Knox College about the role of transportation in helping the local, state and national economy recover.

Nicholas Sheley , 30, of Sterling; charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder, two counts of aggravated kidnapping, two counts of aggravated vehicular hijacking, armed robbery, robbery, and possession of a stolen motor vehicle in the death of Ronald Randall, 65, of Galesburg in late June 2008.

Nicholas Sheley is led from the Knox County Courthouse Wednesday after being convicted.

Sheley can't 
represent himself: Prison guard assault trial expected to begin Monday in Galesburg By Tara Becker tbecker@svnmail.com 800-798-4085, ext.

A man charged in the 2008 deaths of eight people has been dragged from a central Illinois courtroom after a judge told him he couldn't represent himself in an assault case.

After McDonough County Ninth Judicial Circuit Judge William D. Henderson announced he would not be seeking another term in the November 2010 election, Patricia A. Walton announced her candidacy for the position in an Aug.

Attorneys for accused spree killer Nicholas Sheley don't want to have his first murder trial in Knox County.

A line of strong thunderstorms rolled through area Saturday evening producing heavy rainfall and strong wind gusts.

One year has passed since the horrible killings of a rural Sterling man and four Rock Falls residents.