Feds: Southern Illinois coal mine managers concealed ‘deadly conditions’
This is the latest in a series of state and federal actions against the mine’s operators.
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Investigative ReporterMolly joined Capitol News Illinois in July 2023. Most recently, she worked as a reporter for Lee Enterprises, on its Midwest Public Service Journalism team and for The Southern Illinoisan in Carbondale. In that role, Molly exposed poor living conditions and mismanagement of a housing authority in Cairo, Illinois, that resulted in a federal takeover and the relocation of about 400 people. In 2022, Molly and Capitol News Illinois Reporter Beth Hundsdorfer won the domestic print award in the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights journalism contest for a series of stories exposing patient abuse inside a state-run developmental center. Molly is also an assistant professor of journalism at Southern Illinois University and a distinguished fellow with ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network. Contact Molly
This is the latest in a series of state and federal actions against the mine’s operators.
Maggi Tudor, 34, who worked as an account technician at the Pinckneyville Correctional Center, pleaded guilty to two counts of...
State and federal authorities across the country have struggled to regulate 3D-printed firearms.
Sen. Dale Fowler, R-Harrisburg, who has served for a decade in the Illinois Senate, is stepping down at the end...
The arrest comes 18 months after authorities first received a tip.
Most stories I report on disappear as soon as they’re filed. But a few stay in the bones. This is...
Two men promised a $1.1 million 3D printer could fix Cairo, Illinois’ housing crisis. More than a year later, the...
Public records reveal that an assistant football coach in Carterville who’s under investigation for criminal sexual abuse had previously been...
The Williamson County Sheriff’s Office and the Illinois State Board of Education have requested personnel and other records as part...
More than a year passed between when the FBI received a tip about alleged sexual abuse involving a Carterville school...