Murphysboro Curwood plant to shut by summer end
Bemis Curwood announces closure of the Murphysboro plant after deciding to consolidate with other facilities that already have modern equipment. Workers, many near retirement, face job loss as the plant winds down. Mayor Williams seeks state and federal help to mitigate the impact and possible modernization alternatives.
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Bemis
Scott Kemp
Curwood
Miller
Dave Luechtefeld
Rqkanville
U.S
Jerry Costello
D-Belleville
Rod Blagojevich
Bost holds Southern Illinois economic hearing in Carterville
Rep. Mike Bost hosts a public hearing at 11 a.m. at John A. Logan College Carterville to gather ideas for spurring the regional economy and creating jobs. It is the fifth hearing of the House Republican Rural Economic Development Task Force since June. The session reviews competitiveness with neighboring states and business policies to attract firms to rural downstate Illinois. Open to the public.
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Carterville
Mike Bost
Murphysboro
Illinois
Logan College
House
Republican
Bost
Nuns slain in Liberia remembered at Ruma convent
Sister Schott and fellow nuns are remembered for their Liberia mission where rebels killed Sisters McGuire Mueller Kolmer and Shirley Kolmer on Oct 23 1992. Bodies were found later and buried at the Ruma convent amid memorials and a bronze statue.
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Sister Schott
National Patriotic Front of
Liberia
Charles Taylor
Sister McGuire
Mueller
Shirley Kolmer
Ruma
Mary Joel Kolmer
Mattra
Schott
Ex-wife seeks protection after party incident with ex cop
Aniessa Ingersoll says Harlen Ingersoll arrived drunk at a birthday party, grabbed a gun from his car and was wrestled to the ground by Aaron Wright and another man before he could turn. She seeks domestic battery charges while noting officers did not process him for the arrest. Harlen Ingersoll, once Zeigler police chief, was released on a $3000 bond.
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Julia Lengermann
Liberia
William Tolbert
Tolbert
Lengermann
United States
Mildred Gross
Aniessa Ingersoll
Aaron
Wright
Harlen
Amessa Ingersoll
Thompson
Ingersoll
Illinois
Richardson
Ainessa
Harlen Ingersoll
Zeigler
Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Marion
Bill Wilson
Wilson
Accuracy Hotline for The Southern Illinoisan
Report errors to the Accuracy Hotline with local and toll free numbers. A misspelled name in Sundays Sports should name Kasi Carroll of NCOE. In Union County public defender Patrick Cox coverage, State's Attorney John Bigler allegedly took the search warrant to Alexander County Judge Mark Clark who was not the signer.
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Kasi Carroll
NCOE
Union County
Patrick Cox
John Bigler
Alexander County
Mark Clark
Clark
Jonesboro
Cox
Michael Henshaw
Saline County
1St Judicial Circuit
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