A crime scene technician was sent out Friday morning to the New Boston area to investigate a fatal shooting.

A special prosecutor has been assigned in Mercer County to the case of a prisoner threatening public officials.

The fifth and 14th amendments were bandied about in court today in regards to a post conviction motion presented in front of Mercer County Judge James G. Conway, Jr. In what was called a civil matter, the courtroom filled with people interested in the outcome of Kristopher "Bo" Jones' latest attempt to be released from prison.

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Patrol officers from Illinois State Police, Galesburg Police and Knox County Sheriff’s department will work together between 8 – 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 15, in a cooperative effort to enforce the state’s seatbelt law.

Area veterans are being honored in Aledo with plaques attached to flagpoles for the 46 newly purchased American flags that are flown in the city during 10 holidays. There are 21 poles remaining for honoring area men and women in the military. This is a fund-raiser for the Shop with a Cop program.

Mercer County Court finds another man guilty of sexual abuse with a minor.

An attempt to get a new trial or new sentencing failed for Ryan Spencer Ross Bell, as an opinion has been filed by Judge James G. Conway, Jr. in Mercer County Court. A post conviction hearing was held Aug. 31, 2009 to review whether the defendant was represented properly during the 2006 trial.

After just over one year since the Village of Sherrard began investigating theft of village funds, the former Sherrard Village Clerk was sentenced to four years in an Illinois Prison. A plea agreement set the maximum DOC time as four years.

On Monday, July 27, at 12 09 a.m. the Aledo Police department was called to the Aledo Laundromat on East Main Street. Late Sunday night officers responded to the Laundromat for a possible theft.

Longtime employee in the Mercer County Clerk's office Karol Tyrrell of Alexis pled guilty to stealing $550 from the animal control funds today in Mercer County Court. She received a sentence of 36 months felony probation, 110 days in jail, restitution and a fine.

A rural Joy man makes a plea agreement in Mercer County Court. Sentencing is Oct. 6, 2009.

The Illinois Fire Marshall's office is investigating an early morning fire in the New Boston Bay area today.

Mercer County Sheriff's deputies were dispatched at 11:25 p.m. Friday, May 15 to a reported fight outside The Barn, a tavern in New Boston.

On Friday, March 20 around 1 p.m. a subject exiting at the Country Bank threw a plate of cookies all over the lobby floor. The subject left the bank and the police department was notified of the incident.