Judge refuses to lift murder trial gag order
Circuit Judge D D Bigler declines to vacate his gag order barring media from reporting the identity of a Union County juvenile accused in the November 29 murder of Laura Selleck, 16. The Southern Illinoisan requests reconsideration while noting ongoing psychiatric evaluation to decide if the defendant should be tried as an adult.
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D.D. Bigler
Union County
Bigler
Southern Illinoisan
W. Stephen Burgess
Burgess
Herbert McMeen
Murphysboro
Illinois Press Association
Illinois Broadcaster’s Association
The
Gazette Democrat
Anna
Laura Seleck
Mill Creek
Southern
Illinois
Wesley Wilkins
Railroad goods salvage question looms over U S 51 project
The Illinois project faces minimal salvage value for 84 massive concrete deck beams with a $229,536 investment stored in Bi Centennial Industrial Park while counties plan to reuse 21 beams in DeWitt and others in Massac and Hardin. Despite this, widening to four lanes, new signals, and Wye track relocation proceed on schedule with a $3,041,007 current contract total and a final change order expected within a month.
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Bi-Centennial
Carbondale
Eldon Gosnell
Don Rightnowar
Illinois Department of Transportation
DeWitt County, Ill
Massac
Hardin
U.S. 51
Dillinger Road
Simonds Company
Rightnowar
Oklahoma man kills ex wife and two women after divorce
In Wynona Oklahoma Floyd Ware 50 shot three women who testified at a divorce hearing then shot himself. he is in critical condition. In Mississippi Perry Lawrence 24 wounded his estranged wife and fatally stabbed their three young daughters before dying at a Jackson hospital.
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Associated Press
Oklahoma
Mississippi
Floyd Ware
Wynona
Okla
Perry Lawrence
Vicksburg
Miss
Ware
St. Francis Hospital
Tulsa
Linda Burns
Lil
Ly Belle Ware
Osage County
Pawhuska
Bill Mitchell
Jay Byers
Lawrence
Jackson
Huck Finn debate at Goodman Theater spurs school reading removal talk
About 100 people gathered at the Goodman Theater in Chicago to discuss removing The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from required school lists amid accusations of racist content. Panelist John H. Wallace, author of a non racist adaptation, called the book racist trash.
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Twain
Goodman Theater
John H. Wallace
Wallace
Theater
FCC rejects TV commercial detector plan for children
The FCC dismissed a bid by two activist groups to require before and after signals that would trigger electronic boxes to blank ads aimed at youngsters. Officials argued advertising funds programming and the proposal would not become policy.
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Washington
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
Freda Lippert Thyden
Commission
Peggy Charren
Action For Children’s Television
Ms. Thyden
Transplant delay ends for Illinois man after governor’s intervention
James Byrd, a 32 year old diabetic blind since childhood, received a pancreas transplant January 18 at the University of Minnesota Hospital after Gov. Thompson intervened. The governor accelerated eligibility for a new state law granting up to 200000 for transplant costs, and Medicaid aided Byrd following the call. Byrd lives in Marseilles and had feared dying before funds would arrive. He plans to lobby for quicker access for others in desperate need.
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Chicago
James Byrd
Thompson
Byrd
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis
Department of Public Aid
Mass of Job Seekers Flock To GE Lamp Plant Openings
About 2,000 people braved freezing weather to apply for 200 General Electric Lamp Plant jobs in Mattoon Illinois with a starting wage of 9 per hour. By 5 p.m. nearly 2,000 had visited the IDES office and 1,100 by noon. Applications run through Friday and may total 3,000 to 5,000 as many line up seeking work amid recession. People recall long layoffs at Crane Potato Chip Caterpillar and E J Brach plants.
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Jobs Office
Mattoon National
Gary Cole
Tower Hill
Crane Potato Chip Co
HUD probes sexual harassment and kickbacks at Chicago HUD office
FBI and federal agencies examine allegations in the Chicago regional HUD office per a memo from acting regional administrator Judith Brachman. Claims include kickbacks in contract awards, conflicts of interest, sexual harassment, and staff manipulation and intimidation. The memo was dated January 18.
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Chicago
FBI
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Judith Brachman
Washington
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