Additional charges filed against teen in high speed chase
Colp teenager Nicole M. Skelton faced Franklin County Circuit Court for a first advisement on multiple charges after leading police on a chase through Franklin County in a pickup that rammed a Lesser Police Department car. Speeds exceeded 100 mph before colliding and striking a utility pole. officer Cecil Emery injured. Charges include aggravated reckless driving, aggravated fleeing a police officer, criminal damage, reckless driving, and speeding violations. Skelton remains jailed on $25,000 bond.
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Franklin County
Colp
Nicole M. Skelton
Skelton
Cecil
Emery
SIUC study tracks fawn survival with radio collars
About a dozen SIUC students join a three year project capturing seven to nine day old fawns in Pope County and fitting radio collars to measure survival. Biologists from IDNR say data will refine deer population models and hunting quotas across southern Illinois.
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Southern Illinois University Carbondale
John G. Richey
Richey
Paul Bunyan
Fawn
Pope County
Illinois
Cooperative Wildlife Research Laboratory
SIUC
Illinois Department of Natural Resources
Wildlife Lab
IDNR
John E. McDonald Jr
McDonald
IDNA
Grantsburg
Jim Foss
Three Nebraskans appear in Johnson County case after escape attempt
Erick Scott Kluthe 19 Jonathan Curtis Lech 18 and Eric Lynn Lech 24 of Norfolk face multiple charges after fleeing a state police trooper on I 24 two miles south of Vienna. They were captured after a search plane aided the manhunt and are held in Massac County jail on 15000 bail each.
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Vienna
Nebraska
Johnson County
Brian Trambley
Erick Scott Kluthe
Jonathan Curtis Lech
Eric Lynn Lech
Norfolk
Neb
Interstate 24
Bluthe
Massac County
Woman arrested after 110 mph chase in Benton
Benton police arrested 29 year old Gayla M Cooksey after a high speed pursuit reaching 110 to 120 mph. She allegedly struck a squad car at a service station and faces DUI fleeing eluding reckless driving and reckless conduct charges.
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Cooksey
West Main Street
Benton
West Frankfort
Franklin County
Workshops mold artists with summer scholarships
Belletire runs a week long art workshop offering materials and instruction for students including Ninness and Sarah Caldwell. The session centers on Native American and cowboy themes with activities like clay work and making a ceramic pendant. Students choose an Indian name and enjoy the creative, structured program.
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Belletire
Ninness
Sarah Caldwell
Marion
Kelsey Hentze
UMWA Ladies Auxiliary Hopes to Be Working Again
In West Frankfort the United Mine Workers of America Hospital Ladies Auxiliary pledges 10000 dollars and 3000 dollars for future renovations to the West Frankfort Community Hospital, now owned by At Home Health Care Inc. The group waits as the hospital rebuilds and seeks license approval, stressing the need for a local facility.
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West Frankfort
United Mine Workers of America Hospital
At Home Health Care Inc
Pat Heibner
Southern Illinois Healthcare
At Home Health Care
At Home Health
Harris
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Illinois 148
Revi Frovie Siuc
Rachel Woolf
Vincent T. Green
Paula M. Davenport
SIU News Service
Glendale
Vis DeNea
Chase
Jim Muir
Umwa Ladies Auxiliary
Metro Armstrong
Carbondale
Enc
Lightfoot Farms
Jackson Sq
North Murphysboro
Beveridge Dispensers
Illinois Ave
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