The U.S. Supreme Court won’t be reviewing the case and conviction of John Myers, the Ellettsville man jurors ruled killed 19-year-old Bloomington resident Jill Behrman more than two decades ago.
In a recent ruling, the high court denied a petition lawyers filed on Myers’ behalf asking the court to consider the case.
The result? Myers, who is 45, will remain jailed at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City until his release date in the summer of 2037, 16 years down the road. A Morgan County jury convicted him of murder in 2006, three years after Behrman’s body was found in a wooded area there.
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Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan won a federal appeals court decision Monday in which a 2016 Democratic primary challenger for his Southwest Side legislative seat alleged Madigan planted sham candidates on the ballot to assure he’d win.
A look back at 2020 in Jackson County
Few words some perhaps not printable better describe 2020 than “unprecedented.”
From the day coronavirus first made its appearance on the front page of The Tribune on Feb. 20, you’d be hard-pressed to find any story that didn’t contain COVID-19, pandemic or coronavirus on the front page or any inside page for that matter. In fact, there have been more than 1,000 news items containing the word coronavirus and/or COVID-19 this year.
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Poll workers with Brownstown 1 and Brownstown 2 precincts prepare voters to cast their ballots Nov. 3 inside the Jackson County Courthouse in Brownstown.
How Maine’s members of Congress voted last week
Among other legislation, the Senate passed the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Act, to monitor and combat anti-Semitism globally.
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Along with the week’s roll call votes, the Senate also passed the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Act (H.R. 221), to monitor and combat anti-Semitism globally; and the Combating Pandemic Scams Act (H.R. 6435), to direct the Federal Trade Commission to develop and disseminate information to the public about scams related to COVID-19.
HOUSE VOTES
VETERANS’ CAREGIVERS: The House has passed the TEAM Veteran Caregivers Act (S. 2216), sponsored by Sen. Gary C. Peters, D-Mich., to require the Department of Veterans Affairs to identify caregivers of veterans in the electronic health record of the veteran, and authorize 90 days of benefits for veterans who have left the VA’s family caregiver program. A supporter, Rep. Mark Takano, D-Calif.