Ryan honors Pinckneyville export firm
Governor George H. Ryan named Heartland Packaging Inc of Pinckneyville as an outstanding exporter. The company makes custom plastic packaging and exports to Canada, generating $150,000 in sales and seven full time jobs. Illinois exports totaled nearly $34.5 billion supporting about 600,000 jobs.
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Woman gets 18 years for killing sister and claiming baby
An O'Fallon woman, Sandra May Merrifield, 23, was sentenced by Madison County Judge Ann Callis to 18 years after pleading guilty to second-degree murder for striking her sister Jessie Merrifield, 18, with a rock and dumping her in a creek. Jessie had just given birth to a son whom Sandra claimed as her own. officials say Merrifield faces about seven years served.
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Law lets kids keep asthma medicine in school
Springfield reports Gov. George H. Ryan signed SB979 letting students carry inhalers at school with written parental or physician permission. The measure aims to prevent asthma attacks from derailing learning and applies to public, private, and parochial schools.
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George H. Ryan
Ryan
Illinois
Kathleen K. Parker
Northbrook
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