Franklin EMS chief told to quit or be fired
Franklin County Emergency Medical Service Director Bailey Williams must resign by Friday, with EMT Jack Fry to serve as interim director at about half Williams’ $22,500 salary. The move, announced Tuesday and decided March 29 by the Christopher Greater Area Rural Health Planning Corp., aims to cut costs and improve service amid two years of deficits.
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Jean Ann Bailey
Franklin County
Bailey Williams
Jack Fry
Benton
Williams
Fry
Christopher Greater Area Rural Health Planning Corp
Bailey
Paul E. Gamber
Christopher
Ambulance Service
Christopher Emt
Alice Keller
Jack
Rea
Corporation
Weather Forecast For Tonight Through Sunday
The National Weather Service expects rain and thunder tonight with a low in the upper 30s. Thursday will be windy and warmer with showers and thunderstorms and a high in the upper 50s. An 80 percent precipitation chance is forecast for tonight and Thursday. Friday remains partly cloudy then fair through Sunday with a warming trend and seasonable temperatures in the 30s through the 60s by Sunday.
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National Weather Service
Area fruit growers battle cold with burning tires
Area fruit growers fought the cold with burning tires helicopters and irrigation Tuesday night. They diffused the cold enough for commercially viable strawberry and apple crops to remain though buds were at risk. Extension advisers say winter wheat should pull through while alfalfa and red clover may suffer. gardeners with cold weather crops may fare better if covered.
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Ann Schottman Enol
Southern Illinoisan Area
Chris Doll
James W. Hartline
Alto Pass
Hartline
Gerti Boyd
Anna Area
Claude Boyd
Francis White
Murphysboro
Charles Stadelbacher
Cobden
Randolph County
Charles Willman
Prison chief proposes panels to help courts decide sentences
Norman Carlson, head of the federal Bureau of Prisons, urged creation of a sentencing commission to aid courts in determining prison terms and reducing overcrowding. Speaking at Human Resources '82 at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, he linked broader criminal justice issues to overcrowding, noting an 80 percent rise in prison populations over a decade and current federal inmate totals around 28,000.
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Jean Ness
Southern
North Dakota
Carlson
Matthew Peltier
Peltier
FBI
Oglala
Winter storms stun East and Midwest
The Associated Press reports a historic spring blizzard burying major Northeast cities in up to 2 feet of snow. Record low temps hit Illinois cities. Chicago, Moline, Peoria shattered records as winds to 80 mph disrupted travel. Schools closed. power outages and road chaos spread across the Midwest and Northeast.
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Associated Press
Illinois
New York
Boston
New England
National Weather Service
Midwest
Minnesota
Michigan
Tennessee Valley
Appalachians
Rockies
Iowa
Wisconsin
Chicago
Moline
Peoria
Mercury
Vienna
Springfield
Champaign
O’hare International
O’hare
University of Illinois Chicago Circle
Charles McLean
Illinois Department of Transportation
Coast Guard
Seaside Heights
N.J
Connecticut
William O’neill
National Guard
New Jersey
Dixie
Virginia
New Hampshire
Vermont
The
Weather Service
Massachusetts
Interstate 495
Marlboro
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Franklin Ems
Southern Illinoisan
Gamber
Jerry Cummings
Lesser
Zeigler
Thompsonville
Raymond E. Owens
Franklin County District 1
Glenn Snider
Six- Mile Township
Snider
Cummings
Richard Carter
East
Great Plains
Northeast
Catskill Forest
John McCutchen
Norman Carlson
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