Today's News

A Shobonier man who pleaded guilty last month to a sex crime was sentenced last week to seven years in prison, three years less than the cap agreed to by prosecutors.
Associate Judge Allan F. Lolie Jr. of Shelbyville handed down the sentence for Jarvis R. Denning at the completion of the hearing last Wednesday in Fayette County Circuit Court.
Denning, who is required to serve at least 85 percent of the seven-year sentence, was given 115 days credit for time he has served in the Fayette County Jail since his arrest.

A Fayette County man who pleaded guilty in federal court to firearms charges has been sentenced to a little less than three years in federal prison.
Timothy Shellenbarger, 22, of St. Elmo, was given a 35-month prison sentence on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in East St. Louis, according to U.S. Attorney Stephen R. Wigginton.
Shellenbarger, who has been in custody since Dec. 17, 2010, will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence. He was fined $375 and ordered to pay a $200 special assessment.

Sam Bradford (right) and other St. Louis Rams players visit Tiffanae Litaker at Children's Hospital at Christmastime.

Litaker, the 13-year-old granddaughter of Randy and Marie Siebert, is undergoing treatment for rabdomyosarcoma in St. Louis. To learn Tiffanae's story and follow her on her journey, go online to www.caringbridge.org and sign in as a visitor to her website.
 

Greg Dylan Sessions, son of Carol Lewis and David Sessions of Vandalia, was among the graduates of the 988th session of the U.S. Border Patrol Academy in Artesia, N.M., on Dec. 8.