Two arrested, no injuries in Macomb shooting
Macomb police arrested two people after a shot was fired during a domestic altercation outside 1501 E. Murray St.
Caleb Lane, 35, of Sikeston, Missouri is charged with aggravated unlawful discharge of a firearm.
Courtney Hayes, 33, of Macomb is charged with domestic battery.
No one was injured in the shooting on Friday, June 7.
Sentencing delayed in death of Knox County deputy
A man convicted of killing a Knox County Sheriff’s Deputy will undergo a study of his nervous system before he is sentenced.
Daylon Richardson, now 24, was convicted of murder in Henry County for the 2022 death of Nicholas Weist, 34, of Viola.
Deputy Weist was setting spike strips in the road to stop a high-speed chase when he was struck by Richardson’s vehicle on U.S. Route 150 near Alpha.
Speeds reached 110 miles per hour in the chase that started in Galesburg when Richardson waved a gun in the air at a gas station.
Prosecutors asked for a mandatory sentence of natural life in prison.
The defense objects to that. Before ruling on the objection, the judge ordered a physician to conduct a neurophysiological study to determine how Richardson’s nervous system functions.
Sentencing is now set for Aug. 9.
Galesburg awarded Safe Routes to School grant
The city of Galesburg was awarded $235,376 to improve safety and accessibility near Silas Willard Elementary School.
The funding is from the Illinois Department of Transportation’s Safe Routes to School program. Galesburg was selected as one of 47 projects receiving a total of nearly $10 million.
The city plans to build new sidewalks where none exist along Fifer Street and improve crossings and ramps to make them ADA compliant.
Galesburg previously received funds from the program to improve sidewalks near King Elementary School and Lombard Middle School.
Construction on those projects is expected to begin this summer.
OSF mourns loss of president
The president of OSF HealthCare died after a five-year battle with ovarian and uterine cancer.
Sister Diane Marie McGrew died on June 9. She was 57.
McGrew joined the Sisters of the Third Order of Saint Francis in 1988. She was appointed president of OSF HealthCare in 2006.
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