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The website for the book is up and running!
Here’s a link for the website devoted to Ang’s book, Death Rides the Sky: The Story of The 1925 Tri-State Tornado. The website will be devoted to what’s going on as the book gradually takes on...
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Another area teacher in hot water
WAYNE CO., Ill./VANDERBURGH CO., Ind.—Reports of another educator at Fairfield Community High School falling askance of the law over the past weekend have been confirmed. From Emily Adams' Facebook...
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Adventures in Scannerland: What listeners heard post-Christmas
SALINE CO.—County residents yesterday and last night (12.26.11) were treated to some wild scenarios that seemed to indicate that some folks weren’t very happy with what Sants brought them for...
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HOSTAGE SITUATION IN THE ‘BURG CONCLUDED; said to be ‘domestic’
HARRISBURG—Reports that a hostage situation involving a man in Harrisburg holding his wife and young child in their home while he was armed has come to a conclusion are now being called a “domestic”...
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Glutton for punishment…or at least reproach
Why, oh why, do some people push the point of making asses of themselves? Case in point: Screen cap 1.... Screen cap 2 Screenshot 3 screen shot 4.... That was the last one. Note my comment in...
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If lil ol southern Illinois can poll this way, what does it say for the rest...
Just screenshot this from the Carmi Times (GateHouse Media) website: Screenshot at about 5:45 p.m., 12.30.11 There are all the mainstream media outlets screeching to the tops of their voices telling...
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Crazy guy or overblown police response?
WAYNE CO.—Thanks to the fact that Wayne County is so closed off form the rest of the world (and there’s probably good reason for that), when something as explosive as an incident requiring the presence...
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UPDATE: Tis the season to go whacky….plenty of standoffs, now one in Kentucky
UPDATE: At least a name is being released, if not a reason why, in yesterday’s (01.01.12) standoff in Owensboro, Kentucky: Joseph Kurtz, 44, was apprehended at his mother’s home where he’d kept himself...
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Robert York, dumbass with (alleged) knife
WHITE CO.—The mystery of all the scanner traffic going on in and around Norris City over the weekend has been solved…sort of. YIKES..... According to reports, the situation seems to be that one Robert...
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Report of possible suicide in Saline County
SALINE CO.—We’ve received word of a possible suicide occurring yesterday in the Carrier Mills area. We do have a name, this according to friends of the young man who live in the area, but because...
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RICK SANTORUM CAME IN 2nd? Lololololololol….!!!!
Brought to you by state-controlled mainstream media! Lost to Willard by only eight votes! Right where Willard was four years ago!! Willard just traded places with Mike Huckabee from 2008!!! You know...
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Book signing event this weekend, JACKSON COUNTY
JACKSON CO.—The book about the 1925 Tri-State Tornado is catching on, especially in the affected areas…and Jackson County, in southwestern Illinois, was certainly one of those. This weekend,...
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JOHN O. JONES DROPS OUT OF STATE SENATE RACE
John O. Jones...in better days 54th SENATE DISTRICT—John O. Jones, Republican from Mt. Vernon who has been representing Illinois’ 54th Senate District, faced a challenge for the upcoming election from...
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SCHOOL CUSTODIAN ARRESTED ON THREAT CHARGE
HARRISBURG—A middle school custodian has been arrested on a preliminary charge regarding making threats at the school. Jeff T. Cowsert, 44, is currently being held at the Saline County Detention...
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Accident on 130 caused a bit of a stall earlier today…
RICHLAND CO.—We’re still waiting on Illinois State Police District 12 to get something up on the media line about it, but here’s what we saw today after what appeared to be a multi-vehicle accident...
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Guess who’s getting a new roof? (Hint: YOU’RE probably paying for it!)
GALLATIN CO.—There’s quite a bit of activity at 9400 Sawmill Road, Junction. Apparently, the federal marshal service has determined that “their” house—which used to be Raymond Martin’s house, but is...
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Another fight at Poor Boys, another round of recriminations
HARRISBURG—Reports of another fight at the biker bar in Harrisburg, Poor Boys, have been confirmed. The fight occurred Wednesday night, January 4. According to our sources, this particular fight, one...
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Eldorado youth dies; suicide suspected
ELDORADO—Another young person in Saline County has died, and it appears that it was by his own hand. From Tyler Goldsberry's Facebook According to sources, Eldorado resident Tyler Goldsberry, 18, was...
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Amazing how someone so dense can continue to exist….
SALINE CO.—Just when it appears that John B. Jones’ multiple Theft charges case is going to drag on into infinity, along comes a court date that is going to put a stop to it one way or the other. Jones...
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WHY do they keep putting Jamal in charge of MONEY?
WILLIAMSON CO.—A Marion business is missing quite a bit of money and prosecutors believe they have the man responsible for it, but the bigger question is: why would anyone put accused filcher Jamal...
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