Southern Illinois picks new football coach by mid January
Southern Illinois University will hire a new football coach by mid January as athletic director Mario Moccia travels and interviews candidates. A six person committee from both inside and outside the university screens applicants from Division II to NFL backgrounds, with many expected to join Jerry Kill at NIU.
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Moccia
Carbondale
Southern Illinois University
Mario Moccia
Jerry Kill
Tom Matukewicz
Matukewicz
Kill
NIU
Jerry
Black Christmas blast at Orient No. 2 Mine reaches 257 miners
West Frankfort recalls the Orient No. 2 Coal Mine disaster of December 21 1951 nine days before Christmas. About 218 workers entered the mine that shift joining 39 others for a total of 257 underground. A 7 40 p m blast sparked fire and collapse trapping many near the ignition. By January 1 1952 rescue efforts involved some 500 people with survivors and bodies pulled from the wreckage. West Frankfort resident Jack McReynolds remembers the tragedy from his high school days.
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Steve Jahnke
Jack McReynolds
West Frankfort
Orient No. 2
Daily American
U.S
Ken Gray
United Mine Workers Journal
Orient 2
Department of Labor
Mines Inferno Claims Most Of 120 Trapped Miners
A coal mine disaster left 119 miners dead with only one survivor. Eyewitness descriptions recall despair as 120 men waited underground, air polluted by fumes, debris bruising bodies, and hope fading while rescue teams recovered corpses. Franklin County papers reported 28 bodies in the first day. The Boneyard online history journal details how the bodies were transported.
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Franklin County
The
Boneyard
Electric assistance will slow next year in Illinois
Illinois will reduce electric rate relief once the 2007 settlement with Ameren and ComEd phases out. Credits that softened higher rates will shrink after Jan 1 2008, with Ameren customers like one who received 130 in rebates last year seeing about 102 this year.
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Springfield
Ameren
ComEd
Illinois
David Kolata
Citizens Utility Board
Kolata
Leigh Morris
Morris
SIU researchers sell VNS patents to Cyberonics
A decade-long inquiry into stroke and traumatic brain injury treatment culminated as Cyberonics of Houston acquired exclusive rights to three Vagus Nerve Stimulation patents from Southern Illinois University researchers. SIU leaders say the collaboration included grant funding and will move toward patient use.
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Carbondale
Southern Illinois University
Cyberonics
SIU
John Koropchak
SIU Carbondale
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