CLINTON — High school students from Clinton Community Schools continue to showcase their prowess when it comes to putting their science and engineering skills to the test. During the months of May and June, select groups of high school students represented the Clinton district at both state and international engineering competitions, including the 2024 International […]
A Henry County jury found a Clinton man guilty on 23 counts of sex crimes Thursday, including eight counts of sex trafficking, according to prosecutor LaChrisha Gray. Charges against Derek Brett Roberts, 44, were first filed in June 2022. Among other things, prosecutors alleged that Roberts filmed himself performing graphic sex acts on children in […]
Tears filled a mother’s eyes nearly a month after her family’s lives were turned upside down. “We need to find a home… we need to find a home and fast,” said Codie Whalen, whose home was left severely damaged by an alleged drunk driver last month. She and her family are homeless after a man […]
Several elementary school students were injured when a school bus carrying 50 people was involved in a traffic crash on Friday in Clinton, Missouri. Students at Sherwood Elementary School were returning from a field trip at the Clinton Community Center around 1:45 p.m. when the bus was hit by an SUV driving northbound on Price […]
Several elementary school students were injured when a school bus carrying 50 people was involved in a traffic crash on Friday in Clinton, Missouri. Students at Sherwood Elementary School were returning from a field trip at the Clinton Community Center around 1:45 p.m. when the bus was hit by an SUV driving northbound on Price […]
CLINTON TOWNSHIP – One person was killed in a three-vehicle crash Tuesday afternoon on Route 31. Police responded around 2:20 p.m. Tuesday to the area of Riley and Jake’s Restaurant on Route 31 where a dump truck, operated by a 66-year-old man, and a Toyota sedan, operated by a 64-year-old woman, both traveling in the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is again joining forces with former President Bill Clinton to rake in campaign cash, with a joint fundraiser with the two men Tuesday set to raise $8 million — part of a roughly $40 million total that Biden’s reelection campaign has pulled in the last five days. The vast […]
Hillary Clinton was greeted with a standing ovation during her surprise appearance at the 77th Tony Awards. The former US secretary of state highlighted the historical importance behind the musical Suffs, which she is credited as having co-produced, when she arrived on stage to introduce a musical number from the cast. “I have stood on […]
Jun. 16—Fifty years ago, many DeWitt County residents thought they were on the brink of a new age of growth and development. In 1972, Illinois Power Co. announced that it would build a nuclear power plant east of Clinton that would be cooled with water from a 5,000-acre impoundment of Salt Creek. Visions of a […]
WASHINGTON − Before Donald Trump was the first former president and presumptive major party nominee to be convicted of a crime, he argued that a candidate who faced possible indictment shouldn’t be allowed to run for president. The year was 2016 and Trump, then the Republican nominee, was trying to capitalize on a Justice Department […]
The Gainesville home of former NFL running back Clinton Portis was sold at auction Tuesday morning despite an emergency motion by his attorney on Monday to cancel the sale due to a purchase agreement. Bank of New York Mellon, the plaintiff in the 2019 foreclosure case against Portis and his mother, Rhonnel Hearn, took ownership […]
In April, Donald Trump claimed that he could’ve prosecuted Hillary Clinton during his presidency, but he generously decided not to. It would’ve been “a terrible thing” if he’d taken such a step, the Republican claimed. In May, he repeated the claim. In his latest Fox News appearance, for the third time in as many months, […]