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A three-day hearing was scheduled before the Illinois Courts Commission to decide the fate of Judge Robert Adrian on Tuesday, November 7th, 2023.

Grundy County (Ill.) Judge Sheldon Sobol will hold a hearing on January 28, 2022, at which he’ll be asked to rule definitively on a barge fleeting permit.

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A Coal City man was sentenced in Grundy County on Tuesday, March 8 th. In January of 2021, Harold Hogan entered into a blind guilty plea on the charge of Aggravated DUI while having two priors, a class two felony.  As part of the blind plea, an Aggravated Fleeing and Eluding charge was dropped. The Coal City Police Department said an officer noticed a vehicle driven by the 40-year-old Hogan weaving in and out of lanes on Broadway Street in Coal City in November of 2019. As the officer attemp...

A Coal City man pled guilty in Grundy County on January 5th. Harold Hogan entered into a blind guilty plea on the charge of Aggravated DUI while having two priors,

December 23, 2020 OTTAWA – An attorney from Morris has been selected to be the next Associate Circuit Judge in the Illinois Thirteenth Judicial Circuit. Scott Belt was appointed last Friday. The Morris High School graduate attended SIU and Western Michigan School of Law. Prior to becoming an attorney, Belt was also a police officer. “It is truly an honor to have been selected to serve as an Associate Circuit Judge for the Thirteenth Circuit. Becoming a judge is the highest honor you can...