Jackson County Considers Ending Rehab and Care Center
Jackson County Board moves to stop running the Rehab and Care Center with five dissenters urging more citizen input before signing a contract with RFMS AFMS plan would move residents to Carbondale Liberty Village campus. See center page.
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Murphysboro
Jackson County
Orval Rowe
Bob Lorinskas
Candle Western-Mittan
John Rendleman
Julie
Peterson
Rfms Inc
Lorinskas
RFMS
AFMS
Rendleman
Carbondale
Liberty Village
Postal plan to move Carbondale mail ops to Evansville
Postal officials outlined a plan to shift mail processing from Carbondale to Evansville Ind citing a grim budget outlook. The meeting at SIU drew 80 plus attendees as the agency, facing a projected $14.1 billion loss next year, weighs closing 252 processing centers and 3,700 post offices amid a 46 billion piece drop since 2006.
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Carbondale
Evansville
Ind
SIU
Postal Service
David Martin
Gateway District
Martin
Ware murder case darkens Jonesboro with two investigations
The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services confirms two separate probes into the Ware household after 4 year old Justin James Hepburn was found dead. Sacha Brown, 29, of Jonesboro, is charged in Union County Circuit Court with first degree murder, aggravated battery and concealment of homicidal death and is held on 750000 bond. The charging document says Hepburn was killed by a blow to the head or impact against an object causing a skull fracture and that Brown allegedly concealed the death by arranging the body and items to look accidental.
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Jonesboro
Illinois Department of Children and Family Services
Ware
Justin James Hepburn
Sacha Brown
Union County
Brown
Hepburn
Community Christmas program unites cops volunteers in Carbondale
Carbondale police and volunteers transform the Public Safety Center into a Santa workshop for the annual Community Christmas program. Families can buy up to three gifts per child for $1 each, with gifts wrapped by volunteers and proceeds aid the Crime Victim Emergency Assistance Fund. Donors include Walmart Kiwanis Ultimate Gymnastics Contegra Construction and major toy brands.
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Carbondale
Susie Toliver
CPD
Lynn Johnson
Johnson
Toliver
Walmart
Carbondale Kiwanis
Ultimate Gymnastics
Contegra Construction
Gerber
Fisher-Price
Hot Wheels
Mattel
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John Evans
Jackson County Board
Steve Jahnke
THE
Mike Gunter
United State Postal Service
Thesouthern.com
Stephen Rickers
DCFS
Paul Newton
Carbondale Public Safety Center
Crab Orchard
Ben Kissing
Goreville
Shelbey Miller
Giant City Rd
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