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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 2001
Page
3
Peoria County officials announce elimination of the DARE program for drug abuse awareness across grade levels due to budget constraints. The three sheriff's officers running it were reassigned to patrol duty and six deputies left for other jobs, with no authorization to hire replacements.
Dee Courson, 54, and her daughter Amber Courson, 17, died after a house fire in east central Illinois. Steven Courson, 15, was also injured and died later at Carle Hospital in Urbana. Firefighters were alerted around 1:40 a.m. and the deaths were confirmed by Champaign County officials.
The Illinois Campaign Reform Coalition on Friday launched a drive to secure ethics pledges from 2002 office seekers, asking them to promise not to accept gifts from lobbyists or money from employees. Edgewater Medical Center in Chicago closed after a federal judge refused to reinstate Medicare and Medicaid payments, forcing all 215 patients to be discharged or transferred.
Prairie style carriage house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright will not be demolished after owners Michael Dietchweiler and Robert LaBeau told the Kankakee Historic Preservation Commission they will pursue alternatives. They had argued renovation costing about 1 million dollars was too high and would pose a community hazard. A hearing on January 31 will consider options to razing the structure associated with the Wright mansion on the Kankakee River.
Federal agents sought possible biological agents and bomb materials in a stolen 1999 Mercedes Benz linked to Clayton Lee Waagner, an FBI most-wanted suspect who claimed responsibility for sending numerous anthrax hoax letters to abortion clinics. He was arrested after fleeing Illinois jail and held without bond in Cincinnati.
In Peoria police say a body found under a house once owned by Ronald Wells is the second victim connected to his property. Autopsy planned. officials consider the death homicide though details remain unreleased. Notably, Wells and his wife Angela were jailed in April for a separate 2001 murder tied to an $1800 tax refund check.
AP reports an early morning blaze at Thompson Hall Western Illinois University in Macomb prompted evacuation of about 900 students. No injuries were reported as fire began in the 9th floor men's lounge and spread upward. the female wing later reopened while the men's side remained closed during investigation.
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