COLLINSVILLE, Ill. (AP) - A former Illinois judge complains that police aren't doing enough to protect his southwestern Illinois family farm he says burglars have pillaged for months. Gordon Maag tells the Belleville News-Democrat that items taken from the rural Collinsville farm since January have included everything from American Indian artifacts and a late uncle's Purple Heart to an estimated $100,000 in collectible guns. Collinsville's police chief says investigators are doing everything they can, from collecting evidence to contacting gun dealers and shops that peddle military collectibles. Maag is a Democrat who served on the state's Mount Vernon-based 5th District Appellate Court from 1992 to 2004. That's when he ran unsuccessfully for an Illinois Supreme Court seat in a $9 million race that then was the most expensive judicial election in U.S. history. - http://goo.gl/TG1Ik
