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(he/him/his) Senior staff writer for Illinois Times. Cell: 217-836-1068. dolsen@illinoistimes.com. Alum of @sjrbreaking @pjstar @jconline @nwi @thedailyillini

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I cover Medicaid and a wide variety of other health care-related issues for The State Journal-Register in Springfield IL. I previously worked at newspapers in Peoria, IL, Lafayette IN and Hammond IN. I'm a 1984 graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Sean Grayson dies in custody

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By Dean Olsen Verified
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Sean Grayson, the white former sheriff’s deputy whose shots at Sonya Massey inside the Black single mother’s Woodside Township home two years ago resulted in his  second-degree murder conviction and an ongoing racial reckoning in Sangamon County, died about noon Aug. 23.
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Another downtown project

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By Angela Mueller, Dean Olsen Verified
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Local real estate investor Chris Stone has acquired the former PNC Bank building on the Old State Capitol Plaza downtown. “I think it’s probably the best building on the square,” Stone said.
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More charges for David Yankee

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By Dean Olsen Verified
| Illinois Times Verified
A former Springfield City Council candidate who was sentenced to two years of probation for child endangerment after the 2024 drowning death of a 7-year-old foster child in his care could be headed to prison after being charged with methamphetamine possession. David Yankee, 50, has pleaded not guilty to the felony drug charge and to a misdemeanor charge of possession of drug paraphernalia. He hasn’t yet entered a plea on State’s Attorney John Milhiser’s petition to revoke Yankee’s probation.
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