Month: February 2020

U.S. Chief District Judge Sara Darrow today sentenced Dana Frye, former executive vice president and chief loan officer of the failed Country Bank of Aledo to five years in prison, the maximum prison term for [FULL STORY]

Mercer County Sheriff Dusty Terrill supporting the Illinois Sheriff’s Association as the group expresses concern over a recent Illinois Department of Corrections policy change. The change means convicted felons who aren’t U.S. citizens are being [FULL STORY]

Bond has been set at $150,000 for a Keithsburg man facing a felony charge of sexual relations within families. The figure was set today in Mercer County Circuit Court for 45 year old Kevin Hockenberry. [FULL STORY]

A third arrest in a string of Mercer County burglaries. 32 year old Donald Ayers of Orion was taken into custody last week by Mercer County Sheriff’s Deputies. He has posted bond. A first court [FULL STORY]

A New Windsor man charged with three Class X felony child porn counts has waived his preliminary hearing. 59 year old James Pierson entered a not guilty plea to the charges Tuesday morning in Mercer [FULL STORY]