Visitation for William D. “Bill” Seifers, 51, of Kentland, Ind., formerly of Kankakee, will be from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday at the Clancy-Gernon Funeral Home in Bourbonnais, and from 11 a.m. Saturday at the Limestone Church of the Nazarene, until the noon services.
William Leo Cleary, 69, of Westlake Village, Calif., formerly of Ashkum, died Sunday (Jan. 25, 2009) at the Los Robles Hospital in Thousand Oaks, Calif., following a lengthy illness.
Visitation for Gladys M. Cook, 86, of King of Prussia, Pa., formerly of Kankakee, will be from 9 a.m. Saturday until the 11 a.m. services at Asbury United Methodist Church, Kankakee, where she was a member.
A memorial service for Geraldine C. Brewton, 84, a resident of Provena Our Lady of Victory, Bourbonnais, will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Jones Funeral Home, Kankakee.
A memorial service for Shirley G. Martinec, 82, of Bourbonnais, will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Bourbonnais, where she was a member.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic-controlled House has approved an $819 billion economic stimulus package critical to President Barack Obama’s plan to revive the economy.
The House vote came after days of intense lobbying by the new president, including personal appeals to congressional Republicans. GOP lawmakers spurned Obama, saying the bill contains too much spending and not enough tax cuts.
Democrats argued that the bill was imperative with the economy in the worst shape since the Depression.
The legislation includes an estimated $544 in federal spending and $275 billion in tax cuts for individuals and businesses. It includes money for highway construction and mass transit.
The Senate is working on a costlier version of the bill.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve says the economy has weakened further and signaled it will keep a key interest rate near zero for quite “some time” to cushion the fallout.
The Fed agreed — with one dissent — to keep the targeted range for the federal funds rate at a record low of between zero and 0.25 percent. The funds rate is the interest banks charge each other on overnight loans.
Economists predict the Fed will leave rates at that range through the rest of this year.
Having taken the unprecedented step of slashing its key rate to near zero at its previous meeting in December, the central bank pledged anew to look to other unconventional ways to revive the economy.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has defeated a bill to postpone the upcoming transition from analog to digital television broadcasting by four months to June 12.
House Republicans succeeded in scuttling a bill to delay the transition, which is scheduled for Feb. 17, less than two days after the Senate unanimously passed the plan.
The defeat is a setback for the Obama administration and Democrats on Capitol Hill, who fear too many Americans are not ready for the switchover.
The Nielsen Co. estimates more than 6.5 million U.S. households that rely on analog television sets to pick up over-the-air broadcast signals could see their TV sets go dark next month if the transition is not postponed.
Visitation for Vera Pauline Prough, 86, of Kankakee, will be from 11 a.m. Friday until the 1 p.m. services at the Clancy-Gernon Funeral Home in Bourbonnais.
Janice M. Sparling, 67, of Watseka, died Tuesday (Jan. 27, 2009) at her home.
