IVC's longtime sports announcer Steve "Ash" Aeschleman died today at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center.

Lacon man could face life in prison for shooting woman to death with shotgun

Tony Smith could face life in prison after being found guilty Friday afternoon of murdering his estranged girlfriend in a highway intersection in Sparland last spring.

A jury of nine men and three women who had heard four days of testimony deliberated only about 50 minutes before finding the Lacon native guilty of first-degree murder in the brutal shotgun slaying of former Chillicothean Judith Berchtold.

The Marshall County jurors deciding Tony Smith's fate on first-degree murder charges will have reason to be surprised when they enter the courtroom at 9 a.m. Friday.

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The Chillicothe Junior High Mustangs took on Princeville Wednesday night, as well as heart disease.

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