Former president Geroge HW bush and former first lady Barbara Bush hospitalized

January 18, 2017 By Leave a Comment

HOUSTON TX- (Link from Washington Post please click to read full story)

Former president George Bush and former first lady Barbara Bush..

Former president George Bush and former first lady Barbara Bush at inaguration

Former president George H.W. Bush was under observation at an intensive care unit in Houston on Wednesday after being treated for an “acute respiratory problem stemming from pneumonia,” according to a statement from his office. The update described the 92-year-old Bush as “stable and resting comfortably” at Houston Methodist Hospital, but gave no details on how long the former president could remain under medical attention. At the same hospital, former first lady Barbara Bush was also admitted Wednesday as a “precaution” after experiencing fatigue and coughing, a separate statement said…..

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Rain retruns for tomorrow/Saturday night and in to Sunday

January 18, 2017 By Leave a Comment

Good morning!

Here is your mid day forecast.  Today it will be cloudy with a high in the upper 40’s.  Rain chances return overnight, into tomorrow.  We are supposed to have a beautiful Friday and Saturday, with highs in the 60’s., before rain returns on Saturday night into Sunday.

Forecast jan18

Here is the Hazardous weather outlook for the region:

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS, SOUTHWEST INDIANA, WESTERN KENTUCKY, AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI.

.DAY ONE…TODAY AND TONIGHT A FEW RUMBLES OF THUNDER ARE POSSIBLE AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSOURI, SOUTHERN ILLINOIS, AND WESTERN KENTUCKY. LIGHTNING WILL BE THE MAIN IMPACT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN…THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA THURSDAY AND THURSDAY EVENING. LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE PRIMARY IMPACTS.

THE RAINFALL MAY BE STEADY AND PERSISTENT ENOUGH TO RESULT IN STANDING WATER IN SPOTS. THIS IS MOST LIKELY NEAR AND SOUTH OF THE OHIO RIVER WHERE THE HEAVIEST RAIN FELL WITH THE LAST EVENT AND IS FORECAST DURING THIS EVENT.

Here is a link to the full seven day forecast for Franklin County

 

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?x=185&y=93&site=pah&zmx=&zmy=&map_x=185&map_y=93#.WH-QZdQrJxB

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Suspicious fire destroys vacant West Frankfort home

January 18, 2017 By Leave a Comment
WSIL-TV photo

WSIL-TV photo

WEST FRANKFORT- (Link to WSIL-TV website for full story) Investigators are calling an early-morning house fire in West Frankfort suspicious. A West Frankfort police officer said he spotted the fire around 3:15 a.m. in the 200 block of North Anna Street. Officials said the house was vacant with “For Sale” signs outside. The home is considered a total loss. One firefighter suffered a pulled hamstring while battling the blaze…….

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Authorities investigating threat to Sesser-Valier School

January 17, 2017 By Leave a Comment
WSIL Image

WSIL Image

FRANKLIN CO. –(Click on the link to WSIL-TV 3’s website for the full sotry). Authorities are investigating after a threat to a Sesser school Tuesday night. District Superintendent Jason Henry says that at around 5:20 p.m., Franklin County Central Dispatch received a call about a “terrorist” event at Sesser-Valier School. School officials and police immediately evacuated the main school building. Sesser Police, along with Illinois Secretary of State Police and the FBI, conducted a canine sweep of the school and investigated the origins of the threat. At around 7:30 p.m., an out-of-state resident, whose name is not being released at this time, was identified as a person of interest in this investigation. Authorities believe this person may be the same person who committed a similar offense against the Sesser-Valier school community on February 21, 2016. …..

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Redbirds easily handle the Bearcats

January 17, 2017 By Leave a Comment

by Steve Dunford

WEST FRANKFORT – Austin Glodich Dominated both ends of the floor in the 12 minutes he played with thirteen points and seven rebounds as West Frankfort defeated Christopher 59-35 in the opening round of pool play at the West Frankfort Midwinter Classic.midwinterclassic

Glodich rolled an ankle with two minutes and some change on the clock in the first half.  He will be ready to play in Wednesday night’s game against Carterville.

Christopher was short handed to begin with without the services of Bradley Young and Gabe Schimpf, who will return for tonight’s game against Eldorado.  Coach Eric Stallman played a 2-3 zone all night against the Redbrids which the Bearcats play man to man 99% of the time.

It might have been storming outside, but the perfect storm happened on the floor for Christopher in the first half.  Jared Curry sit most of the second quarter with two fouls.  Different ones for the Redbirds guarded Kaeleb Pedigo, and he was held scoreless.  Both teams went to the locker rooms with the score 33-18.

There were a couple back breaking threes by Noah Allen in the third quarter that sealed the deal for the Redbirds.  Coach Kevin Toney subbed freely most of the second half.

Along with Glodich’s 13 on the night Allen had 11 on the night to pace WF.  Gabriel Motsinger, a freshman making his first varsity start, led the Bearcats with 10 on the night.

The Redbirds improve to (7-8) on the season and (1-0) in their pool.  They play Carterville tomorrow night at 8:30.  The Bearcats fall to (11-5) on the season and (0-1) in pool play.  They have the unenvyous task of taking on the Eldorado Eagles, the No #6 team in the state in class 2A in the latest AP rankings.

BOX SCORE:

WEST FRANKFORT   (59)  Glodich 5 0 3-6 13; Allen 1 3 0-0 11; Hammers 3 0 0-1 6; D. Russell 1 1 0-0 5; Sturgill 2 0 0-0 4; Thrash 2 0 0-0 4; Clinton 2 0 0-0 4; Levanti 0 1 0-0 3; Wolfe 0 1 0-0 3; Riddle 0 1 0-0 3; Johnson 0 1 0-0 3; Russell 0 0 0-0 0; Powell 0 0 0-0 0; House 0 0 0-0 0; Clark 0 0 0-0 0; Croslin 0 0 0-0 0

CHRISTOPHER (35)  Motsinger 3 1 1-2 10; Pedigo 1 2 0-0 8; Curry 4 0 0-1 8; Snell 0 1 2-2 4; Sanders 0 1 1-2 3; Pratt 0 1 0-0 2; Saeger 0 0 0-0 0; Dorris 0 0 0-0 0; Hawkins 0 0 0-0 0; Dunford 0 0 0-0 0; Flowers 0 0 0-0 0

SCORE BY QUARTERS 

WEST FRANKFORT   15    18    14    12  –  59  

CHRISTOPHER              7    11      8      9  –  35

 

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No rain today and tomrorrow

January 17, 2017 By Leave a Comment

For this wet January that is a welcome sight.  Here is the five day forecast for the region.  There are no advisories to talk about today.  I hope you have a great Tuesday.

forecast jan 1717

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Holliday might be moving on, but his impact in St. Louis is long-lasting

January 17, 2017 By Leave a Comment
Matt Holliday comparing pythons with a patient in the Bob Costas center of the hospital (Cardinal Glennon photo)

Matt Holliday comparing pythons with a patient in the Bob Costas center of the hospital (Cardinal Glennon photo)

St. LOUIS MO- (Link to the full article on the St. Louis Post Dispatch Webiste.) Last night Cardinal Glennon Children’s hospital donated a whole wing to Matt and Leslie Holiday for their continuous dedication to Cardinal Glennon. Back in November St. Louis Cardinal beat writer Derek Gould wrote a story on Matt and Leslie’s dedication to the hospital…here is an excerpt….“He has done more than any other Cardinal has done for this hospital since Stan Musial,” says Rose Fogarty, Cardinal Glennon’s director of marketing and communications. “They put Cardinal Glennon on the map again in St. Louis. Matt and Leslee brought us into the limelight.”

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The MLK History Forgot During his last three years on Earth, Martin Luther King went through hell

January 16, 2017 By Leave a Comment

MLK imageIn January 1966, Martin Luther King Jr.—founding president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Nobel laureate and the nation’s most prominent civil rights activist—moved his family into a squalid tenement apartment in one of Chicago’s economically barren ghetto neighborhoods. A fixture in American political life since December 1955, when he assumed leadership of the Montgomery Improvement Association—a coalition of churches and organizations that banded together to coordinate a boycott of city buses following Rosa Parks’ arrest just weeks before Christmas—King subsequently appeared to be everywhere the civil rights movement took root. Albany, Georgia; Birmingham; Selma; Atlanta. Even when he wasn’t at the forefront of events, as was the case with the wave of lunch counter sit-ins and Freedom Rides that shook the South in 1960 and 1961, civil rights activists at the grassroots level looked to him for guidance and inspiration. Please click to read the entire piece that was published on politico.com

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JALC MAKES MOTHER’S DREAM COME TRUE

January 16, 2017 By Leave a Comment
West Frankfort native and recently retired master seargent from the ISP, Scott Isaacs presenting his mother his degree from JALC

West Frankfort native and recently retired master seargent from the ISP, Scott Isaacs presenting his mother his degree from JALC (Logan Media Services)

CARTERVILLE — Mothers have been known to nag their children from time to time. Maybe it’s to clean their room or take out the trash, and if mothers are persistent long enough, most of the time, they get their way. For 27 years, Bernice Isaacs never let up on her son, Scott. She, too, finally scolded him into action. It didn’t matter that Scott, a Marion resident, started working in management for John and Mary Moreland at McDonalds when he was a teenager. It also wasn’t sufficient that Scott passed the test to become a state trooper, eventually rising to the rank of master sergeant within the Illinois State Police. What Bernice wanted most was for her son to complete his college degree. “I’d say, ‘Mom, I’ve been promoted again,’ and she’d say, ‘yeah, but do you have that degree completed yet?’” Scott said. “She never let it go.” So in his final year with the Illinois State Police, Scott, who retired in December, decided to surprise his mother and give her the greatest birthday present of her life. Please click to read the rest of the story from John A. Logan College’s website.

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Wet and possibly stormy MLK day

January 16, 2017 By Leave a Comment

Good Morning!!!!! We are off to a foggy start this morning.  A chance of showers and thunderstorms move in the area this afternoon and will continue in the overnight hours.  The high today is going to be in the upper 50’s, with a low around 50 degrees. MLK Weather chart

It is supposed to be mostly cloudy on Tuesday and we might get a peek of the sun on Wednesday, with highs in the lower 50’s and lows in the upper 30’s.

Rain chances are coming back in the forecast on Thursday into Friday.  Saturday is supposed to be very mild with highs in the mid 60’s, until a chance of rain enters on Sunday.

Here is a link to the seven day forecast for Franklin County.

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?map.x=176&map.y=89&site=pah&zmx=1&zmy=1#.WHzPrdQrJxA

 

 

 

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