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An Illinois circuit court judge was gunned down outside his home earlier this week as his wife was arrested and charged with his murder. The body of Illinois Second Judicial Circuit Court Judge Michael J. Valentine was discovered fatally shot outside of his Albion, Illinois during a wellness check on Nov. 5. The Edwards County Sheriff’s Office were called to the Valentines’ home on the 1100 block of County Road 600 in Albion, Ill. at around 12:14 p.m. when they made the disturbing find, the Illinois State Police said. Valentine, 43, had been the resident circuit judge for Edwards County...

A teenage girl saved her two-year-old sister from their mother’s alleged attempt to drown the younger child in a bathtub at their home in Albion, Michigan, local authorities reported Saturday. The 15-year-old girl, who is the eldest of four siblings, called 911 for help at about 10:30 a.m., according to a Facebook press release from the Albion Department of Public Safety (ADPS). Public safety officers and law enforcement from the Calhoun County Sheriff’s Department arrived at the home and kicked open a locked door as they heard noise from within. Inside, an ADPS officer found the apparent mother of the...

Here we go again. It’s the time of year when we have to muster the energy to pretend to be happy when a friend tells us their child is headed off to college. It’s a sad perennial ritual in which a sometimes unique and interesting young person departs and an overconfident, woke and melodramatic clone returns, just months later. They preen in the glow of their nonconformity, trumpet their individualism and relish in their distinctive worldview, too intoxicated by their self-perceived uniqueness to notice that they are exact facsimiles of millions of other mass-produced units coming off the factory floor....

Albion College and the Albion Department of Public Safety say a student is responsible for racist graffiti found in a dorm last weekend. Albion police brought the 21-year-old Black male in for questioning on April 6, according to Chief Scott Kipp. The student admitted to creating most of the graffiti, and video evidence from Albion’s Campus Safety Department confirms the statements made by the student, Kipp said. The student was released after questioning, Kipp said. Once the investigation is complete, the information will be submitted to the Calhoun County Prosecutor’s Office for any charges related to the incident, he said....

Remains of Illinois soldier, missing since 1969, coming home By Len Wells Evansville Courier & Press, Ind. (Tribune News Service) Published: January 9, 2016 ALBION, Ill. The remains of an airman listed as "missing in action" during the Vietnam War have been recovered. Officials with the U.S. Department of Defense confirmed the remains of Pfc. Kenneth Leroy Cunningham of Ellery, Illinois. He had been missing since Oct. 3, 1969. He was 21 at the time. Cunningham's remains will be flown back to the United States later this month, arriving at the airport in Louisville, Kentucky on Jan 19. His remains...

24-year-old Luis Flamenco, an illegal Honduran national, is in the Orleans County Jail after admitting to stabbing 45-yearold Kathleen Byham. Police say Byham resisted Flamenco, and he stabbed her over and over again. She was rushed to the Medina Memorial Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead a short time later.

ALBION, NY - 45-year-old Kathleen Byham was stabbed to death Sunday night in a Walmart parking lot, according to Orleans County Sheriff Scott Hess. She was leaving the store in Albion at about 7 p.m. Sunday when three men approached her. One of the men stabbed her repeatedly. ... Hess said Monday that 24-year-old Luis Rodriguez-Flamenco of Honduras, who police describe as being in the country illegally, has been charged with second-degree murder. He's being held in the Orleans county jail without bail. He is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday with legal representation for a formal arraignment.

Michigan authorities arrested a man who allegedly shot up his motel room, tried to microwave his alarm clock and left a note say, "God delivered me from evil and placed me in Albion, Michigan." They think he might have snapped.

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