by admin | Apr 11, 2000 | Crime / Courts
Springfield police think they’ve solved almost 60 business burglaries that have been committed in their city in the last six months. Seven men and a juvenile have been arrested on a tip from a private citizen. Police are not sure of the value of the things...
by admin | Apr 10, 2000 | Crime / Courts
A former speech pathologist from Springfield has been sentenced to 115 years in prison for Medicaid fraud. The most Julia Roberts will serve, though, is five years, because her sentences on 23 counts are all five years and she’ll serve them concurrently. She...
by admin | Apr 6, 2000 | Crime / Courts
Polk County deputy sheriff Jeremy Lynn is in stable condition at a Springfield hospital…and police have arrested a man suspected of wounding him during a traffic stop. Police say Lynn was shot four times in the legs. Other bullets might have hit his safety vest....
by admin | Apr 5, 2000 | News
Backers of an effort to mark the lynchings of three black men on the Springfield town square have gotten caught up in some buck-passing and apparently won’t get their marker. The Springfield NAACP wants the marker on the square. The city wants to put something...
by admin | Apr 5, 2000 | Crime / Courts
A Polk County sheriff’s deputy has been shot by a man during a routine traffic stop. The officer is in serious condition at a Springfield hospital with at least three bullet wounds. Police are searching an area into which the man fled.
