Milder Weather Across Regions With Snow Flurries Nearby
Cooler West and Northeast today milder in the Mississippi Valley. Pacific Northwest and Arizona parts expect showers and higher elevation snow flurries. New England to see snow with Friday highs around 35 and overnight 20. Police Brief notes Ronald D. Ferrer fined 15 dollars for speeding in Carbondale.
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Arizona
Carbondale
Ronald D. Ferrer
Manard walkaway eludes roadblocks during prison escape
Police chased Menard Penitentiary honor farm escapee Billie Thames Baze 37 who fled Friday night after walking away from the honor farm. Bloodhounds tracked him to Rt 3 then north. a 1961 car stolen in Ellis Grove led to a roadblock escape. A pickup stolen near Ruma was not recovered. Baze, with past burglary sentence, was last seen near the honor farm at 5 20 p.m. Friday.
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Menard Penitentiary
Honor Farm
Randolph-Monroe County
Billie Thames Baze
Baze
East St. Louis
Jerseyville
Ellis Grove
Ruma
Hecker
Max Frye
Rt. 3
Mike Hathaway
William Brooks
du Quoin
Brooks
William Hess
Hess
Hathaway
Clerk of court Fae Searcy dies at 75 in Illinois
Fae Searcy, 75, clerk of the Illinois Supreme Court since 1955, died Saturday after a lingering illness. She was the only woman to fill a state-wide elected office in Illinois and had recently filed for renomination on the Republican ticket. Searcy previously directed War Camp Community Service employment programs at Fort Riley and Camp Funston and remained active in Republican circles statewide.
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Springfield
Fae Searcy
Illinois Supreme Court
Ezrle Benjamin Searcy
Illinois
Searcy
Fort Riley
Kan
Camp Funston
Bitter cold storm blankets Dixie and drives fatalities
A severe spring storm coated the Dixie states in over a foot of snow and moved toward Memphis Tennessee. It brought record cold across the mid Atlantic and Northeast with heavy rain causing flooding in Connecticut and New England. The system left at least nine deaths in Tennessee and Kentucky, including traffic accidents and a carbon monoxide poisoning incident.
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Central United States
Dixie
Connecticut Highway 17
New England
Tennessee
Kentucky
States
Memphis
Paris, Tenn
Lower Michigan
East
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