May Simmons, an inmate at the Montana Women’s Prison, settled with the Department of Corrections in October, and a copy of the agreement was released this week.

The outlaw Tom Bell and his gang terrorized our area in the 1850s. With the eternal gratitude of Hollywood, he “invented“ the stagecoach robbery.

DECATUR - Oscar R. Lambdin, 49, an Illinois Department of Corrections employee, has been charged in Macon County Circuit Court with official misconduct and custodial sexual misconduct.