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Former lawyer Lowell Thomas Lakin died last week and left behind a lesson in the price of having too much.
Madison and St. Clair County courts, which have been labeled "Judicial Hellholes" for much of the past two decades, got a bit of redemption last week from the American Tort Reform Association (ATRA).
SPRINGFIELD – Paula Sims, who murdered her infant daughters, achieved release from prison by writing a law that made her actions less horrible.
SPRINGFIELD – People still buy a book that former Madison County prosecutor Don Weber wrote about sending murderer Paula Sims to prison, but in the final chapter she wins.
The Illinois Prisoner Review Board will decide this week whether an Alton woman who...