On Feb. 2, 2007, Amanda Hamm’s attorney predicted his client would spend just 14 months in custody afer being sentenced to 10 years in prison for drowning her children, ages 6, 3 and 23 months. After all, she gets credit for time served waiting for trial, plus half off for good behavior. But Hamm actually [...]

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Here’s some discussion of traffic along West Main Street in the West Bluff. Hopefully, all these traffic studies will provide details that will replace all the anecdotal evidence that the street needs to be narrowed. I’m 45 years old and I can’t recall a time when West Main wasn’t congested. [...]

It’s become a habit to dismiss the lives of the victims of gun violence. So many of the victims seem to be on the wrong side of the law. The Journal Star has turned in its second-day story on the murder of Teddy Jackson, there’s no indication that the young man was a negative influence [...]

From the Peoria Journal Star:
Teddy C. Jackson, 26, of 2020 W. Howett St., was shot in the head about 1:05 a.m. outside The Rock Christian Entertainment Complex, 815 S.W. Adams St., according to Peoria police. He was pronounced dead in the emergency room at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center at 1:30 a.m., said Peoria County Coroner Johnna Ingersoll.
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The 18-year-old who was found murdered behind Sterling School apparently had an “unconventional relationship” with the man prosecutors say killed her. No kidding. There was an eyewitness to the murder, they say. And she snitched. Apparently she never got the memo saying that Peorians never talk to [...]

The California Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of WIlliam Dennis, convicted by a Santa Clara County jury for the 1984 Halloween night murders of his former wife and her unborn child.
In an unanimous opinion written by Justice Ming Chin, the Supreme Court rejected Dennis’ appellate arguments challenging the convictions and the imposition of [...]