Today's News

Vandalia residents who are customers of Doty Sanitation will have the opportunity to get rid of unwanted items during the city’s annual Cleanup Week, May 9-13.
The unwanted items are to be placed alongside regular trash on residents’ normal trash pickup days.
Residents wishing to get rid of old appliances and other large items are not required to call city hall. They need only to place those large items out with their regular trash. City workers will be following Doty Sanitation crews during Cleanup Week and picking up large items set out by residents.

• Jay G. Smith, 59, 518 W. Orchard St., Vandalia, was arrested on April 25 on a charge of driving under the influence. Bond was $3,000.
• Ryan E. Peterson, 34, East St. Louis, was arrested on April 25 for failure to appear in court on a felony charge. Bond was $5,000, and he was turned over to the Illinois Department of Corrections.

If you are entering Tony Koberlein’s workshop and showroom for the first time, be prepared, because you might come face-to-face with a snarling, teeth-bared coyote, a huge elk, a full-size longhorn cow or a life-size buck deer with a large rack.

A judge has agreed to suppress a statement made by a Loogootee teen in an ambulance shortly after he allegedly murdered a couple living a short distance from him.
But, Judge Michael McHenry denied a motion by Clifford Baker’s attorneys to suppress statements he made during a videotaped interview a few hours later.
McHaney filed on Tuesday an eight-page docket entry that included his rulings on several motions argued during a hearing in Fayette County Circuit Court last Friday.