Carmi gunman sought in deadly gravel pit attack
Southern Illinois law enforcement hunted a gunman who killed Kathy Martin, 20, and wounded three others at a Garnersville gravel pit. A similar earlier assault in the area prompted a composite sketch and a red pickup truck description.
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Carmi
Ill
Illinois
White County
Mary Vaupel
Bob Duckworth
Kathy Martin
Centerville
Garnersville
Evansville
Ind
Ms. Martin
Jack Nolan
Illinois Division of Criminal Investigation
Illinois Sees 2.5 Point Drop in Jobless Rate to 8.1%
The Labor Department reports March unemployment down in 34 states including Illinois from a year earlier, with West Virginia and Illinois posting the largest declines. Nationally Raleigh-Durham records 2.5 percent while McAllen-Edinburg Mission tops areas at 23.7 percent.
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Washington
Labor Department
Illinois
District of Columbia
West Virginia
Kentucky
Michigan
Peoria
Iil
Sharon
Hawaii
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics
Raleigh-Durham
N.C
Stamford
Parks chief charged with theft of $76
OQUAWKA AP The supervisor of Big River State Forest Charles Baran Jr is accused of selling old radiator tractor head and scrap iron totaling 76.62 to a Fort Madison salvage company in 1983 and diverting the money to a personal account He faces five felony counts of official misconduct and one misdemeanor theft Baran 36 supervises conservation lands in three western Illinois counties and was suspended last December but kept salary and a state owned house rent free while under investigation SPRINGFIELD AP A legislative study blames health officials for delaying action on a six state salmonella dairy outbreak and urges faster authority to close plants recall products and impose emergency measures.
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Oquawka
Mississippi River
Charles Baran Jr
Big River State Forest
Quad Cities
Henderson County
Baran
Fort Madison
Iowa
State Conservation Department
Illinois
Big River
Delabar State Park
Mississippi
Burlington
Citizens’ Lake
Monmouth
Gladstone Lake
Corner Wildlife and Nature Preserve
Muscatine
Charles Tamminga
Tamminga
Big River Forest
Springfield
Illinois House
Republican
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Theresa Clark
Maunie
Janice Ensley
Carl McVey
Ms. Clark
Mike
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