At a briefing on Tuesday, Sheriff Nick Petitgout said he is "99% certain that Eric Warren-Spears killed Cheyenna Decker.”

Stephanie ‘Stevie’ Borders had just turned 18 when she left her parents’ Bushnell home to listen to a band at a local bar on Sept. 9, 2000. Her body would be found eight months later, concealed in a well off a gravel road north of Avon. State police say Borders’ death is a drug-induced homicide — and the concealment is part of the crime. But 25 years later, no one has ever been held accountable.

The shooting happened on Aug. 5 in rural Burlington.

Spoon River College President Curt Oldfield said he is especially proud of the investment the college made in career and technical education with its new Macomb campus.

Settlement payments from chemical companies are helping cities pay for expensive PFAS removal technology. But local leaders say the dollars often fall short of covering the full costs to clean up drinking water.