Tornado damages Jefferson County in EF1 event
National Weather Service confirms an EF1 tornado caused damage across Jefferson County on Wednesday with a 14 mile path from west northwest of Woodlawn to north northeast of Dix. Peak winds reached 105 mph. no injuries reported. extensive structural damage in Boyd including a destroyed machine shed and sawmill.
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National Weather Service
Jefferson County
Paducah
Woodlawn
Dix
Weather Service
Boyd
Carbondale School Board OKs 150000 Loan and Preschool Pact
The Carbondale Elementary School District 95 board approved a 150000 loan from the working cash fund to the transportation fund and authorized an interagency cooperative agreement with Parrish School to provide preschool to Migrant Education Head Start eligible children. The next meeting is 7 p.m. June 23 at the CES 95 Administrative Center, 925 S Grant City Road. Memorial Day observances in Murphysboro include a wreath laying at the Logan Monument near Murphysboro Middle School at 9 a.m. and a Veterans Memorial service at 11 a.m. with a family picnic to follow. reported corrections note.
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Board Oks
Carbondale Elementary School District 95
Parrish School
CES 95
S. Grant City Road
Murphysboro
Logan Monument
Murphysboro Middle School
Spruce Street
South 21St
22Nd Streets
American Legion
Paul Stout Post 127
Veterans’ Memorial
Gartside St
Jackson County
Judge denies motion to vacate Thompson murder conviction
Jackson County judge rejects defense bid to dismiss or overturn the first degree murder verdict of Trevis Thompson, 25, in the November stabbing death of Orlando Lamont Clark. Sentencing set for June 24 at 1 p.m. Thompson faces 20 to 60 years. trial witnesses testified to a severed femoral artery and blood at the scene.
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Murphysboro
Jackson County
Trevis
Thompson
Orlando Lamont Clark
Mansfield
Clark
Hill rides to youth rodeo title at Gallup event
Molly Hill a 13 year old from Carbondale will compete this June in the World's Largest Youth Rodeo in Gallup New Mexico she says she is excited and not nervous having started rodeo in May 2009 and practices regularly at Autumn Ridge Acres east of Carbondale Her family owns the riding facility where she trains
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Molly Hill
Carbondale
Gallup
N.M
Hill
Autumn Ridge Acres
Alan Rogers
Makanda
New Mexico
Ferris Chooses Bench Trial in West Frankfort Killings
Afton D. Ferris, 21, will face a bench trial for first degree murder with a jury only deciding guilt or innocence while a judge will handle capital eligibility and sentencing. She and Michael Schallert, 31, are accused in the 2009 shooting deaths of Kandis Majors and Terri Leibeck after hosting them for about a month in West Frankfort. The waiver motion was heard in Franklin County Court before Judge Barry L. Vaughan.
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Benton
West Frankfort
Afton
D. Ferris
Ferris
Michael Schallert
Kandis Majors
Terri Leibeck
Schallert
Majors
Leibeck
Barry L. Vaughan
Franklin County Court
Siuc student Nanivazo studies aid effects on Congo
Kinshasa born PhD candidate Malokele Nanivazo pursues four year Economics research at Southern Illinois University Carbondale on foreign aid efficiency. Her work develops formulas showing aid not always used as intended while noting Congo’s eastward conflict and refugee camps.
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SIUC
Malokele
Joelle
Nanivazo
Kinshasa
Democratic Republic of Congo
United States
Cottey College
Nevada
Augustana College
Rock Island
Africana Studies
Department of Economics
Joseph Brown
Steve Jahnke
Malokele Nanivazo
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Dan Reitz
Steeleville
Illinois House
Randolph County
Trevis Thompson
Thomas Mansfield
Dan Kimmel
Mike Wepsiec
Wepsiec
SIU Credit Union
Illinois
SIUCA
NCUA
Equal Housing Lender
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