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Glen Carbon seeks to hire Alton officer Charles Bolinger Hearst Newspapers FacebookTwitterEmail GLEN CARBON — A pending medical retirement prompted Glen Carbon Police Chief Todd Link to make an unusual request at Tuesday’s village board meeting. Link proposed allowing Glen Carbon to temporarily hire above its authorized manning and extend an offer of employment to Alton Police Officer Aaron Porter, the top candidate on Glen Carbon’s lateral hire list of police officers. ”Lateral hire ca...

Cameras that can read vehicle license plates coming to 157, 270 Charles Bolinger Hearst Newspapers FacebookTwitterEmail This photo illustration shows where and how the license plate reader system would work on northbound and southbound Route 157, just south of Interstate 270.Courtesy of the Village of Glen Carbon GLEN CARBON — A technology tool to help Glen Carbon police fight certain types of crimes is a “go” again after village trustees last week unanimously approved paying $29,203 to U...

Link EDWARDSVILLE - Patrick Ferrari of Glen Carbon filed suit against the village and police chief Todd Link on Jan. 28, claiming $5,109,640 in damages for harassment, intimidation, false arrests, and malicious prosecutions.  Along with Link he sued village administrator Jamie Bowden, village attorney James Schrempf, administrative assistant Melissa Millard, utility superintendent John Leezy, and mayor Robert Jackstadt.  Ferrari filed his complaint at circuit court wit...

Lawmakers approve criminal justice reform bill ‘This bill cannot become law,’ say Madison County police Ron DeBrock, ronald.debrock@thetelegraph.com FacebookTwitterEmail 1of6 Rep. Justin Slaughter, D-Chicago, is swarmed after the criminal justice reform bill passes the Illinois House during the lame-duck session for the Illinois House of Representatives on Wednesday morning at the Bank of Springfield Center. Show MoreShow Less 2of6 6of6 SPRINGFIELD — A criminal justice reform bill oppos...

  WINNIPEG -- A pair of ice fishers on Lake Winnipeg had a close call after they heard what sounded like a gunshot as a massive crack in the ice opened up underneath them. Mark Lucas and his friend were settling in for an afternoon of ice fishing on Lake Winnipeg near Chalet Beach on Saturday when they felt a rumble and a crack. "The tent and the truck started shaking around and then water spurted out of our holes and our tent started sinking," Lucas told CTV News on Tuesday. "In a split s...

>> there you go, an odd link. give me a moment to do this. a senior source tells our jim acosta, the more this thing is shaken, the more people come away, the source told jim, where is trump, he should be more visible on this one. i wonder if you think the reason the president isnt out in front, being the salesman that he is on obamacare, is because he knows the first time he is in front of cameras taking questions, the questions arent going to be about that, theyre going to be about wheres the ...

Soon, in the next hour or so, well hear from president trump. i imagine he may want to talk about jobs. but its also possible he might, might take questions for the first time since his evidence-free claims about being wiretapped. hes said nothing so far out loud in public about it, at least so far. hell be meeting with chairs of house committees when hes going to be talking about the ideas to repeal and replace obamacare. as far as that goes, there are new signs he might be willing to support c...