DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Des Moines minister has married two Iowa men in the state’s first legal same-sex marriage.
CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) — Police say they’ve made an arrest in the killing of a Southern Illinois University student from the Chicago area a quarter of a century ago. Police and Jackson County prosecutors won’t discuss about the break in Deborah Sheppard’s 1982 death until a 2:30 p.m. news conference at the Carbondale Civic Center. Sheppard was a 23-year-old senior from Olympia Fields when her naked body was found on the floor of her apartment in Carbondale.
The America’s Bistro restaurant in Kankakee’s Meadowview shopping center officially will reopen for business at 11 a.m. Tuesday. The restaurant has been closed since June 17 for extensive interior and exterior renovations.
- A bilingual program has been introduced in some lower-grade classrooms in the Kankakee school district where Spanish is the dominant language spoken.
- The battleship Missouri, upon whose deck the Japanese surrender was taken to end World War II, ran aground in Chesapeake Bay in 1950. Crewman Gaylord Mercier, now a 76-year-old Clifton resident, saw it all.
- Olivet Nazarene University is getting a ROTC program of its own.
- Russells’ Family Farms will hold its first fall flea market and craft fair this weekend.
- The Gilman Chamber of Commerce will be sponsoring Super Saturday on Sept. 8.
- The I-355 extension will open Nov. 11.
- Crowding at St. George Elementary forces one class to hold part of its day on the auditorium stage.
The identities of two people killed in a Thursday afternoon collision with a truck south of Momence at Illinois 17 near 1500 North Road are still being withheld pending notification of next of kin, according to Illinois State Police.
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A fatal accident was reported at about 3 p.m. Thursday about one mile north of the Hopkins Park curve on Route 17 East involving a semi tractor trailer and a small car. More details will be published as they become available.
CHICAGO (AP) — A gunman who took hostages inside a bank on the city’s North Side on Thursday morning may have escaped, said police, who were scouring the building and area for the suspect.
CHICAGO (AP) — Governor Rod Blagojevich is moving forward with his plan to expand health care programs without approval from Illinois lawmakers.
The Democratic governor outlined a new program for sick or injured young adults.
It would provide coverage for people ages 19 through 21. Currently, state coverage through the All Kids program ends when someone turns 19.
His aides say the new bridge program will cost up to $20 million a year and serve about 7,000 people.
The governor failed to win legislative support for a major health care expansion this year. But he plans about $460 million worth of new spending anyway.
Blagojevich says he’ll come up with the money by cutting waste that lawmakers added to the budget.
Visitation for Ardis Mae Schlaich, 76, of Herscher, will be from 9:30 a.m. Saturday until the 10:30 a.m. services at Trinity Lutheran Church, Herscher, where she was a member. Pastor Mark Wenzel will officiate.
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Visitation for Sophia Schwartz, 97, of Peotone, will be from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, and from noon Sunday until the 1 p.m. services at the Fedde-Helfrich Chapel, Peotone. Pastor Jack Newberry will officiate.
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