Super Saturday at SIU Carbondale fuels big day for Salukis
SIU Carbondale athletic director Mario Moccia calls today the biggest in Saluki history as football hosts UMass in a 2:15 p.m. quarterfinal. Parking lot 89 behind Lingle Hall closes at 2:20 p.m. Priority basketball passes gain access. Roads near Minds 13 and U.S. 51 close 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. for Lights Fantastic Parade.
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Frank Henry
SIU
Saluki
Carbondale
Mario Moccia
Southern Illinois University
Moccia
SIUC
Massachusetts
Lingle Hall
U.S. 51
Indiana Hoosiers Visit Ranked Rival in Sold-Out Showdown
At 8:30 p.m. the men's basketball team hosts 15th-ranked Indiana in a nationally televised ESPN matchup that sold out in under an hour. Football and basketball teams prepare for tough tests as both games air on ESPN networks.
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Indiana
ESPN
Officials search for missing pilot
Benton police say Daniel J. Bradac Sr., 58, of Pinckneyville disappeared after taking off in his KR2 experimental plane from Benton Municipal Airport Thursday between 4 and 4:30 p.m. Authorities and emergency crews continued the search Friday with hunters urged to help.
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Benton
Pinckneyville
Daniel J. Bradac Sr
Benton Municipal
Mike O'Neill
Police Ask Hunters For Help In Bradac Missing Pilot Case
Franklin County Sheriff officials appeal to hunters for information about Daniel J. Bradac a 5 9 gray haired 200 pound man with a goatee last seen after a hangar door was found open at the airport a pilot’s truck remained at the facility and authorities consider he may be disoriented or walking in a field SEE PILOT PAGE 6A
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Daniel J. Bradac
Franklin County Sheriff's Department
O'Neill
Franklin County
Bill Wilson
Bradac
Arson suspected in two Williamson County blazes
About 30 firefighters fought two suspicious early morning fires in west Williamson County one at an abandoned North Bend Road house and another at an old one room schoolhouse near North Bend and Big Muddy. Fire officials linked the incidents, noting absence of power and similar timing, while a separate Pauker house fire and a camping trailer fire near town were also reported with investigations ongoing.
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Williamson County
Jeremy Norris
Williamson County Fire Protection District
North Bend Road
Colp
Carterville
North Bend
Big Muddy
Norris
Herrin Fire Department
Herrin
Pope Street
Pauker
Hafer Road
Jeff Stuck
Murder suspect James Coulter faces trial over Tope and Weston slayings
Best friend Brandy Helleny-Connor testified that Amanda Tope received threatening voicemails and texts from James Coulter in the weeks before the October 2006 killings. The bodies of Tope and friend Jack Weston were found at Weston's Zeigler residence, each with a single shotgun wound to the chest.
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Benton
Amanda Tope
Tope
James Coulter
Coulter
Jack Weston
Franklin County
Tom Dunn
Morris
Brandy HelLeny
Connor
Marcee
Weston
Zeigler
Brandy Helleny-Connor
Herrin
Helleny-Connor
Jim
Williamson County
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