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Police charge Orlando Cooper with assault & battery following East Forest Park shooting Updated Mar 16, 2021; SPRINGFIELD - Police arrested a 41-year-old city man and a juvenile boy early Tuesday following a shooting on Dennis Street in East Forest Park that left a man injured, police said. Orlando Cooper of Dennis Street was charged with assault and battery and other charges in relation to the shooting, while the juvenile was charged with taking the gun and hiding it as Cooper instructed, said police spokesman Ryan Walsh. The gun was later recovered a block away on Regal Street, Walsh said....

EXCLUSIVE: 'My dad opened Circle of Hope for his own sick perversions.' Daughter of couple charged with running abusive religious boarding school tells of her 'torture' and says her attempts to expose her parents were IGNORED by police for over a decade Boyd Householder, 71, and his wife Stephanie, 55, were charged last week with 102 counts for sexually, emotionally, or physically abusing girls for years The Householders ran religious all-girl boarding school Circle of Hope Girls Ranch in Cedar County, Missouri Their daughter Amanda Householder revealed the deeply disturbing torture she and '...

Springfield man charged with assault; points gun at CVS clerk when told he can’t use restroom Updated Feb 25, 2021; SPRINGFIELD — A 27-year-old city man is facing assault and unlawful firearms charges after he allegedly drew a gun on a clerk when told there were no public restrooms in the Belmont Avenue store. Dallas Woodall of Lakeside Street is charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, carrying a firearm without a license, and carrying a loaded firearm without a license and driving without a license. According to police spokesman Ryan Walsh, a clerk at the CVS, 615 Belmont Ave., ca...

Sarah Blissett, whose sons attend District 186 schools, was chosen to fill out Scott McFarland's vacant seat in a consent by the school board Tuesday.

Listen here. “There should definitely be another way,” Rahman said. “Everyone just needs to get on the same page to figure out how to effectively provide the vaccine to all the people in group 1B.” Sangamon County moved to the second priority group for COVID-19 vaccines last week, which includes teachers and other essential workers like first responders and grocery workers, in addition to seniors over 65. The rest of Illinois starts this “Phase 1B” on Monday. Sangamon County’s health department estimates that nearly 49,000 of its residents qualify in this new phase of the vac...