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While plenty of Galesburg voters have already cast their ballot for the election in almost a week, numbers are significantly down from 2020 levels. Executive Director of the Galesburg Election Commission Lisa Watson reports to WGIL that as of Thursday nearly 3,500 had already voted between vote-by-mail ballots or voted in person at City Hall. That’s less than half of the early vote haul in the 2020 election.

The last of three young men to be sentenced for throwing concrete and anti-freeze from Knox County overpasses earlier this year pleaded guilty Tuesday. In exchange for his plea, 19-year-old Grant Oyler received 2 years of second chance probation, 30 hours of community service, and was ordered to pay restitution.

A Monmouth man convicted in the 2018 Railroad Days Shooting has pleaded not guilty to seven felony and two misdemeanor drug and weapons charges.

A Galesburg man is facing multiple charges after he allegedly crashed drunkenly into the back of a Galesburg Police squad car. The officer was stopped at the corner of Ella and Lincoln Streets talking to a bicyclist

“The 54th Massachusetts regiment, under the leadership of Colonel Shaw in the attack on Fort Wagner, Morris Island, South Carolina, in 1863,” mural at the Recorder of Deeds building, built in 1943. 515 D St., NW, Washington, D.C. (Library of Congress)

The United Way of Knox County is on the search for a new Executive Director. Director Hayleigh Green is leaving to become a business teacher at Galesburg High School according to a United Way Facebook post on Tuesday. Green has been the Executive Director for the past two years, and before that was Director of Marketing and Communications.

Newly elected Knox County office holders were sworn-in Monday, and with it the County Board elected a Chairman at a special organizational meeting. Republican Jared Hawkinson will remain Chair after he garnered the most votes in a party line vote, as Republican holds a 9-6 majority.

Two Maquon women accused of murdering the former Maquon Police Chief before leaving his body in a storage locker made court appearances Tuesday. 71-year-old Richard Young’s remain were found in October 2022, almost a year after prosecutors believe he died.

A Galesburg woman convicted of murdering her 7-year-old daughter will remain incarcerated for several decades. 33-year-old Hazel Ivy pleaded guilty but mentally ill to the charge of murder in June 2022 and was sentenced to 53 years in prison for stabbing and strangling her daughter, Willow Banks. Ivy won a small legal battle in July, when the Fourth District Appellate Court reversed the Circuit Court’s denial of a motion to reconsider her sentence. That hearing took place Tuesday with Judge Andrew Doyle ruling that Ivy’s original sentence will stand.

An Ipava man is charged with first degree murder after allegedly shooting a man in the head on New Year’s Eve in Lewistown. 33-year-old Nicholas D. Pratt also faces charges of Aggravated Battery with a Firearm, Aggravated Discharge of a Firearm, and Endangering the life or health of a child.