Salem hospital administrator fired amid threats of lawsuits
Salem Town ship Hospital fired administrator Harvey Acton by a 5 0 vote after staff protests and board discord. Acton warned of lawsuits alleging defamation and violations of mental health rehabilitation statutes while noting no dereliction of duty. He admitted prior mental health treatment and noted four OR staff were briefly fired, then reinstated.
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Harvey Acton
Acton
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Bryan Park
Illinois
A.P. Aguilar
St. Mary’s Hospital
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Aguilar
Rakerd
Darrell Stein
Edys Bachman
Harriett Hardacre
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Philanthropist fugitive halted after giving spree in Troy
Howard L. Hall 30 arrested on a Pinellas County fugitive warrant charging grand theft and issuing a bad check. He posed as Dale Hall a 24 year old philanthropist who donated to the town and police department claiming terminal cancer. He had bought a police van and promised more gifts before authorities matched fingerprints and recaptured him.
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Howard L. Hall
Pinellas County
Fla
Madison County
Hall
Dale Hall
Howard Wood
Wood
the Tribune
Tedrick
Fred Bright
Sheriff’s Office
Centralia Hires Attorney on Rehiring Union Workers
An attorney was hired by Centralia to decide whether to contest an arbitrator’s ruling ordering rehiring with back pay for three Operating Engineers Union workers who lost jobs in August as staff was cut to trim the budget. The union argued seniority citywide, not by department, should govern who was kept.
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Centralia
City of
Operating Engineers Union
Media seek lift of gag order in Olney hearing
Media groups ask Richland County Circuit Court for permission to lift the August gag order on reporting the Leonard Ezell preliminary hearing. Judge Lawrence Arnold will hear motions on Oct 30 to decide if coverage can resume before Ezell’s trial for attempted murder and aggravated arson in the Aug 4 Olney mobile home bombing.
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Richland County Circuit Court
Lawrence Arnold
Leonard Ezell
Lawrenceville Daily Record
Ezell
Arnold
Carol Brown
Ray Fehrenbacher
Barry O. Hines
Olney man killed in oil field drilling mishap
A 66 year old Olney man, Kelly Richey, was crushed to death when a boom truck overturned after a cable pulled loose on a drilling rig in a Richland County oil field. He worked for Parrish Oil Drilling Co. of Olney and died at the scene late Thursday morning.
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Newton
Illinois
Richland County
Kelly Richey
Richey
Parrish Oil Drilling Co
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