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Teacher charged with using app to arrange sex with teen

UncategorizedBy News February 5, 2016 Leave a comment

Mount Vernon, IL (KTRS) A Mount Vernon math teacher faces felony charges after police in southern Illinois say he used an anonymous social media app to arrange a sexual encounter with an eighth-grader. Kevin Battas, 25, was charged Wednesday in Madison County with grooming and indecent solicitation of a child using the Internet. Troy police say…

Illinois man dies while trying to retrieve drone on icy pond

UncategorizedBy News January 25, 2016

MADISON, Ill. (AP) – A 54-year-old southwestern Illinois man has died after falling through the ice on a frozen pond while trying to retrieve a drone. Mark A. Miller of Granite City was last seen near the entrance to the Low Water Dam on Chouteau Island in Madison shortly before 6 p.m. Saturday. Miller’s body…