Six people injured in Grundy County weekend accidents
Grundy County Sheriff investigators report six people injured in weekend crashes. Ivan Dzambazovic 55 and wife Danica 54 were taken to Morris Hospital after a one car Interstate 55 crash near Gardner Road. Danica treated for head injuries and released. Other incidents include a Pine Bluff Road single car rollover injuring two teens and a two car Gardner collision injuring Mrs. Raelene Testa. Additional damage occurred on Illinois 47 and Grand Ridge Road with three vehicle crash. One parked car was damaged at Uncle John’s Inn.
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Grundy County
Dzambazovic
Sklut
Chrysler
Glenn Wise
Gardner
Pine Bluff Rd
Dresden Rd
Steven Elleson
Spruce St
Claudette Arnsdorff
Jeff Borgstrom
Lisbon St
Jeff Wix
Elleson
Wix
Duane Olson
Suncoe
Ken Shannon
Charles Marketti
William Klegman
Coal City
Raelene Testa
Third Ave
Wilmington
Illinois
Main St
S.J. Maloney
Joe van Gampler
Joliet
van Gampler
Maloney
Testa
Gampler
Chevrolet
Glenn Wise Ford
Garnd Ridge
Verona Rd
Curt Leach
Bartman
Grand Ridge Rd
Waupecan Creek
Leach
Marketti
J Engineering
Verona
Illinois 47
Southmor Rd
Orville Palmer
Reddick
Ilinois 47
Gary Miller
Bossier
Palmer
Elmer Mannschreck
Anadarko
Okla
Miller
Morris Texaco
Mannschreck
Buick
Sunoco
Darrell Delay
Rte. 1
Uncle John’s Inn
Delay
Peter Odo
Uncle John’s
Weather report notes heat and humidity with storm chances
Forecast calls for warm humid tonight with possible thunderstorms and lows in the 70s. Tuesday will be hot with highs near the upper 90s. Weekend highs reached 76 at Dresden Island Locks and Dam and 90 on Sunday with a 65 low. Morning temps were 72 at 7 am and 75 at 10:30 am in Morris. Weekend precipitation totaled 1.96 inches.
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Dresden Island Locks and Dam
Morris
Fire damages Menten mansion and art collection in Netherlands
Fire sparked by a Molotov cocktail ripped through the mansion of jailed billionaire Pieter Menten near Amsterdam, damaging the home and large parts of his art collection. Police said the 78 year old on trial for 1941 massacres remains in prison hospital. Firefighters reported $600000 in damage. most paintings saved, but antique pieces lost.
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Blaricum
The
Netherlands
UPI
Pieter Menten
Menten
Poland
Volun
Amsterdam
G.G. Borsen
Meta
Motorcycle Crash In Stratton Park Injures Two
Two people injured Sunday night in a motorcycle accident at Stratton Park were listed in fair condition at Morris Hospital for observation. David L. Bennett, 19, and Linda J. Bennett, 17, of 36 Main St Shady Oaks near Minooka, were taken by Morris Ambulance. Bennett said he drove east through the parking lot and struck a raised island he could not see. Police reported David had a cut on his left knee and Linda sustained head and left leg injuries.
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Stratton Park
Morris Hospital
David L. Bennett
Linda J. Bennett
Main St. Shady Oaks
Minooka
Bennett
Morris
David
Linda
West coast fires and redneck Woodstock heat wave arc
Firefighters battled two major brush fires in the West while Ohio hosts a country music gathering mocked as a redneck Woodstock. East Coast beaches overflow as heat persists. drought worsens Georgia crops. Utah forest fire killed three and threatened 1,400 acres.
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West
Ohio
Woodstock
Georgia
Utah
Ashley National Forest
Forest Service
Missoula
Mont
Thomas Judge
St. Clairsville
Johnny Cash
Barbara Mandrell
Tom T. Hall
Four juveniles face Joliet court in kidnaping case
Edward E. Grimes, 17, of Xenia Ohio, and three other youths from Ohio and Indiana were scheduled to appear in Will County Circuit Court Joliet for aggravated kidnaping and armed robbery involving a 16yearold Channahon youth Robert A Shook. The suspects were held in Kankakee County Detention and earlier captured in Omaha after Shook was driven to an Omaha area.
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Xenia
Ohio
Will County
Joliet
Channahan
Robert A. Shook
Parkside St
California
Omaha
Shook
Poulsen
Grimes
Greene
Argo Shook
Channahon
Nebraska
Minooka Board Hires Four Teachers and Approves Textbooks
Minooka High School Board adopted new English and business textbooks and hired four teachers including Laurian Dzuris for special education. A two hour session with Frank Eaton discussed expansions and several project change orders outlined costs for parking lot work and new panels.
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Frank Eaton
Fields
Goldman
Macgee
Minooka High School Board of Education
Laurian Dzuris
Dan Havel
Grundy County Co-op
Dzuris
Minooka High School
Miss Dzuris
Wayne Kadar
Industrial Arts
Susan Girard
Danny Robinson
Channooka
Channahon Park District
Alton Mattingly
Ondesco Film Co-op
R.S. Blunt and Co
Chris Peterson
Patsy Martin
Jim Butterback
Lynn Andracke
Morris youths escape detention again in Ottawa burglary case
Charles Douglas Yoder 16 and a 15-year-old Morris boy fled the LaSalle County Juvenile Detention Center for a second time Saturday and were recaptured Sunday. Ottawa police linked the suspects to a burglary and purse theft in Ottawa on Saturday night and a stolen car pickup. Yoder faces charges for a July 2 bank burglary and awaits a judge to set bond. both teens were being held in Ottawa jail before their court appearances.
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Charles Douglas Yoder
E. Jefferson St
Morris
LaSalle County
Ottawa
Yoder
Morris Police
Grundy County National Bank
Morris Boy
Seven Climbers Die on Matterhorn Summit Weekend
Seven climbers perish on Swiss Alps over the weekend while attempting the Matterhorn 14690 feet. Two Americans among the dead, a Swede, two Italians, a West German, and a Swiss are named in the tally. Rescue chief Beat Perren notes dangerous weather shifts and inexperience as the main causes.
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Zermatt
Switzerland
UPI
Matterhorn
Beat Perren
Illinois 47 repair plan announced for Ottawa area
Robert Blasius district three engineer for the Illinois Division of Highways said Illinois 47 between Waverly Street and the Rock Island Railroad tracks will be resurfaced. The highway will be overlaid while the Rock Island crossing is repaired. Starting Monday Illinois 47 will be closed on both sides of the crossing and traffic rerouted to Liberty Street.
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Robert Blasius
Illinois Division of Highways
Ottawa
Illinois 47
Waverly St
Rock Island Railroad
Blasius
Rock Island
Liberty St
Siren Malfunction Reported in Morris by Local ESDA
Joe Temple of Grundy County ESDA reported a Main Street siren malfunction today around 10:50 a.m. as heavy rain moved through Norman Township. Rain totals over the weekend ranged from four inches in Norman Township to about two inches elsewhere in Morris, with 78 inches noted by an ESDA gauge by noon.
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Joe Temple
Grundy County Emergency Services and Disaster Agency
Morris
Main St
Temple
Norman Township
ESDA
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