Michael James “Rabbit” Kroll, 56, of Bradley, died Friday (May 30, 2008), following a long illness.
MIAMI (AP) — National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Arthur, first of season, has formed near Belize.
Charles E. “Chuck” Ruch Jr., 56, of Bradley, died Friday (May 30, 2008) at St. Francis Hospital in Blue Island.
Cleo Paul “Pete” Kious, 66, of Dwight, died Friday (May 30, 2008) at St. Mary’s Hospital in Streator.
James V. “Jim” Gasbarro, 84, of Momence, formerly of Chicago Heights, died Thursday (May 29, 2008) at the Illinois Veteran’s Home in Manteno.
Paul J. Berg Sr., 89, of Sunrise, Fla., formerly of Kankakee, died Wednesday (May 28, 2008) in Florida.
Matthew “Doc” Kizer Sr., 83, of Kankakee, died Thursday (May 29, 2008) at Bradley Royale Health Care Center.
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Scientists for the Phoenix Mars Lander are wrestling with an intermittent short circuit on the spacecraft. The problem is in a device that will analyze ice and soil dug from the planet’s surface, the scientists said Friday. The short circuit was found during testing done before the mission’s experiments get under way. Looking for ice, an essential condition for the existence of life on Mars, is the main purpose of the mission.
UNDATED (AP) — Severe weather across northern Illinois has left thousands without power, knocked a semitrailer from a highway and lifted the roof from a building at Rockford’s airport.
ComEd says 40,000 customers are without power in northern Illinois, down from a high of 69,000.
National Weather Service meteorologist Stephen Rodriguez says winds in the region have been enhanced by a string of thunderstorms. He says gusts up to 60 miles per hour have been reported near the Wisconsin border.
Rodriguez says a semitrailer was blown from the roadway near Marengo, and a building at the Rockford airport lost its roof.
A tornado watch is in effect for parts of east-central Illinois through Saturday morning.
The Rev. Michael Pfleger mocked Sen. Hillary Clinton from the pulpit of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, threatening to resurrect the politically radioactive Rev. Jeremiah Wright as a campaign issue, The Chicago Sun Times reports. Pfleger, the outspoken activist pastor of St. Sabina in from Chicago’s South Side, spoke at Trinity on Sunday night. His videotaped comments about Clinton are now on the Internet. Introduced by Wright’s successor, the Rev. Otis Moss III, Pfleger said there is a need to expose ”white entitlement and supremacy wherever it raises its head.”
