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By Kevin Bessler, The Center Square:
As all Illinoisans know, not all thunderstorms are equal. Now the National Weather Service is adding new damage threat categories to severe thunderstorm warnings.
The two damage threat categories will depend on hail size and wind speeds.
A “considerable threat” is a storm with golf ball-sized hail and wind speeds of 70 miles per hour or greater, and a “destructive threat” warning is a storm with baseball-sized hail and 80 mile-per-hour winds or greater.
“The difference between 58-60 mph winds and 90 mph winds like we saw in the derecho last year, that makes a pretty large difference,” said Illinois Climatologist Trent Ford.
The billion-dollar August 10, 2020, Midwest Derecho is an example of when the thunderstorm damage threat from high winds would be classified as “destructive” in severe thunderstorm warnings.
The storm tracked across eastern Iowa into Illinois with winds of up to 140 mph. Widespread damage to buildings was reported, and millions of acres of crops were damaged or destroyed.
Winds estimated at 100 mph impacted Princeton, Illinois in Bureau County where a 150-foot communications tower collapsed and numerous power poles were snapped. Long-duration power outages occurred across the region.
If a destructive threat severe thunderstorm warning is issued, a new alert will be sent out.
“The storms that are classified as that by the National Weather Service will automatically trigger a Wireless Emergency Alert, or a WEA, and that is an alert that goes directly to smartphones,” Ford said.
This emergency alert will be accompanied by a loud screech that will alert you when a particularly dangerous severe weather threat is in your area. Other warnings already trigger a Wireless Emergency Alert to phones, including tornado warnings and higher-end flash flood warnings.
According to the NWS, only 10% of all severe thunderstorms reach the “destructive” criteria each year across the country.
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by: BRETT ALLEGA
PRINCETON, Ind. (WEHT) – Police in Princeton arrested and charged an 18-year-old with attempted murder following a shooting Wednesday night.
Police say officers were notified of two separate calls, one of which being a gunshot victim in the emergency room of Gibson Deaconess Hospital.  The second incident was related to a disturbance that led to an alleged robbery. 
The gunshot victim at the hospital was identified as Isaiah Jones, 18, of Princeton.  Jones was brought to the hospital by a friend.  Police say Malachi Billings, 18, also of Princeton, was the person who allegedly shot Jones. 
Billings had made the report of the robbery and at the time of arrival, officers immediately took billings into custody. 
Police say Jones was taken to an Evansville hospital for gunshot wounds to the side of the head and middle chest area.  Jones was talking Wednesday night, but his condition is unknown currently.
Billings was booked into the Gibson County Jail on charges of attempted murder. The investigation is still ongoing. 
(This story was originally published on March 11, 2021)
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(NEXSTAR) — Johnson & Johnson plans to ask federal regulators early this week for authorization of its COVID-19 booster shot, The New York Times reported Monday. The news is according to officials familiar with the company’s plans.
Last month, regulators authorized a booster shot for some recipients of the Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine and are considering authorization this month for recipients of the Moderna vaccine.
STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Nobel Prize in the field of physiology or medicine has been awarded to U.S. scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian.
They were cited for their discovery of receptors for temperature and touch.
(StudyFinds.org) – If you disagree with mom or dad on COVID-19 vaccines, maybe don’t expect much in your stocking this year.
A new survey, commissioned by CoinStar, finds one in eight Americans plan on skipping holiday shopping for family and friends who do not share the same COVID-19 opinions as them.

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by: Riley Phillips
Tuesday, July 20, 2021 at 10:10 p.m. UPDATE: (WVNS) — A portion of I-64 is opening following multiple accidents.
According to Raleigh County Dispatchers, the eastbound lanes are back open and one westbound lane is now open. Emergency crews just cleared the scene.
Dispatchers also confirmed at least one person was taken to a local hospital.
RALEIGH COUNTY, WV (WVNS) — Crews are on the scene of several accidents on I-64 in Raleigh County.
According to WV511, one accident happened near mile marker 137 eastbound, which is right before the Hinton/Sandstone Exit.
The Beaver Volunteer Fire Department is reporting all lanes of I-64 are closed while crews respond to multiple accidents. Sandstone Mountain is currently shutdown.
Vehicle Crash on I-64 EB at MM 137.0.
2 of 2 eastbound lanes are closed and 2 of 2 westbound lanes are closed.
Stopped traffic, expect delays, be prepared to stop.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A data scientist who was revealed Sunday as the Facebook whistleblower says that whenever there was a conflict between the public good and what benefited the company, the social media giant would choose its own interests.
Frances Haugen was identified in a “60 Minutes” interview Sunday as the woman who anonymously filed complaints with federal law enforcement that the company’s own research shows how it magnifies hate and misinformation.
BECKLEY, WV (WVNS) — A man was reported missing in Beckley, and deputies are asking for the public’s help in tracking his location.
According to the Raleigh County Sheriff’s Office, James “Bo” Robert Cook, 31, was reported missing on Wednesday, September 29, 2021 and was last seen on Diane Drive in Beckley, WV. The Sheriff’s Department made a post to their Facebook page on Monday to spread the word on his disappearance.
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City teachers and other school staff members are supposed to be vaccinated against COVID-19 when the bell rings Monday morning, in one of the first school district mandates in the country requiring employees to be inoculated against the coronavirus.
Mayor Bill de Blasio gave a final warning to the city’s roughly 148,000 public school staffers on Friday, saying unvaccinated employees would be placed on unpaid leave and not be allowed to work this week. The city planned to bring in substitutes where needed.

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by: WGN Web Desk
CHICAGO — A 40-year-old man is in critical condition following a shooting in the city’s West Pullman neighborhood Saturday night, according to police.
Police said the man was sitting in a parked car in the 12300 block of South Princeton Avenue when he sustained multiple gunshot wounds to the body and head.
The man was taken to Christ Hospital in critical condition. There is no one in custody and no description of the perpetrator available.
The shooting is under investigation.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (NEXSTAR) — Star Trek’s Captain Kirk is rocketing into space next week — boldly going where no other sci-fi actors have gone.
Jeff Bezos’ space travel company, Blue Origin, announced Monday that William Shatner will blast off from West Texas on Oct. 12.
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Less than a week after the funeral for her daughter, Gabby Petito’s mother has sent out her first tweet saying, “Turn yourself in!”
WFLA confirmed the new Twitter account of Nichole Schmidt, who is using the platform and her first tweet to vent her frustration.
(NEXSTAR) — Johnson & Johnson plans to ask federal regulators early this week for authorization of its COVID-19 booster shot, The New York Times reported Monday. The news is according to officials familiar with the company’s plans.
Last month, regulators authorized a booster shot for some recipients of the Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine and are considering authorization this month for recipients of the Moderna vaccine.

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Celebrating more than 25 years of community recitals, the Princeton University Carillon at the Graduate School, located at 88 College Road West, in Princeton, is hosting a season of summer concerts for the surrounding community. All concerts start at 1 p.m. every Sunday, July 4 through Labor Day, and are held rain or shine. Admission is free. Please call 609-258-7989 or visit the university website for more information and directions. 
Attendees are to maintain social and physical distancing practices on the south lawn of the Graduate College. You can bring a blanket or lawn chairs and have a picnic, if you like. 
Summer Performance Lineup
Jul 4 Carlo van Ulft, Springfield, IL
Jul 11 Frank DellaPenna, St. Peters, PA
Jul 18 Joey Brink, Chicago, IL
Jul 25 The Treblemakers, Janet Tebbel & Lisa Lonie, Philadelphia, PA
Aug 1 Roy Kroezen, Centralia, IL
Aug 8 Jim Fackenthal, Chicago, IL
Aug 15 Linda Dzuris, Clemson, SC
Aug 22 Lisa Lonie, Philadelphia, PA
Aug 29 Princeton Carillon Studio Members
Sept. 5 Alicia Ding (New Colleague Recitalist), Philadelphia, PA
The carillon is a musical instrument of 23 or more bells that produce music. Carillon bells are hung stationary with only the clapper moving against the lip of the bell. It is manually played from a console with both fists and feet activating batons and pedals attached to the clappers through mechanical linkage. There is no electronic assistance to ring the bells. Remarkable variations in expression are possible and controlled entirely by the carillonneur. The music can travel great distances in all directions, making it a community instrument for the public. The largest bell of the Princeton carillon weighs 12,880 pounds. Dedicated in 1927, the Princeton carillon is memorialized to the Class of 1892. The 67 bronze bells were cast in England, France, and The Netherlands. The carillon is a program of Princeton University Chapel Music and is made possible by an endowment established by the Class of 1892.
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PRINCETON – A teen from rural Princeton was killed Saturday morning in a single vehicle crash.   The Bureau County Sheriff’s Office reported that around 6:15 AM they were called to an intersection about two miles north-east of Princeton where they found an SUV had rolled, taking the life of the 18-year-old driver.  His identity has not been released pending notification of next of kin.   The crash remains under investigation by the Bureau County Sheriff’s Office and Bureau County Coroner.

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CHICAGO (CBS) — A 40-year-old woman was found dead Tuesday afternoon, after Chicago police responded to a standoff situation in the Princeton Park neighborhood.
Police said a SWAT team responded to calls of a 30-year-old man armed with a gun inside a home, along with a 40-year-old woman, in the 200 block of West 92nd Street around 12:20 p.m.
The man was arrested around 1 p.m., and the woman was found dead of multiple gunshot wounds to the torso and face.
A firearm was recovered at the scene.
Charges were pending against the 30-year-old man Tuesday afternoon.

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A Princeton woman was arrested Monday morning for her part in the theft of almost $33,000 worth of items from a Walcott hotel room, court documents state. 
Christina Naomi Trudeau, 40, of Princeton, reportedly helped John David Daniels, 42, of Princeton, break into a hotel room on March 26 at the Comfort Inn, where Trudeau worked.
Trudeau gave Daniels a key and helped him load items into her vehicle, court documents state.
Items stolen included multiple power tools; camping gear; two fire extinguishers; a Rolex watch; a Nissan Titan truck, which Daniels used to leave the hotel; and other items. In total, the value of the goods was estimated at $32,653.20.
Police say Trudeau admitted the couple worked together to steal the items and offered to return everything. Officers went to their home that night to collect the property. While there, they spoke with Daniels, who also admitted to the thefts and willingly returned “what appeared to be the majority of the stolen items.” 
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Daniels was arrested Wednesday, May 12, more than a month after the property was returned, and charged with third-degree burglary, conspiracy, first-degree theft and second-degree theft, all felonies. He was released on his own recognizance and is scheduled for his first court appearance on June 10.
Trudeau, arrested Monday, has been charged with first- and second-degree theft and conspiracy. She is currently being held in the Scott County Jail on a $20,000 bond. Her next court date is scheduled for June 3.

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A Rock Island man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for shooting at two East Moline Police officers in 2019.
A murder trial for a man accused a killing college student Mollie Tibbetts in 2018 is set to begin Monday, May 17, in Davenport.

A Davenport man was arrested Thursday evening for assaulting four people walking from their residences.

Six people have been charged with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and various other drug and gun related charges as part of a 19-count indictment from a federal grand jury in Davenport.

Cassandra Bibbs, mother of Wilanna Bibbs, who was allegedly murdered by her boyfriend on Mother’s day, remembers her daughter as a happy, talented young woman. 
A man has gone missing by the Rock River near the Prophetstown State Park in Prophetstown, Illinois, according to a news release from the Whit…
Davenport police chased juveniles in a stolen car into Rock Island on Monday night. 

A man is suing Shenanigans Irish Pub and another man over injuries he received in 2019 when the other man allegedly hit him and he fell while intoxicated. 

Adam Vannoy was arrested on gun and drug charges in Nebraska. After posting bond he tried to buy a gun in Ankeny, Iowa and was later taken into custody at a Comfort Inn in Walcott. A Princeton couple was charged with stealing $33,000 worth of property from Vannoy’s hotel room.

A woman accused of helping with the theft of $33,000 worth of property from a hotel entered a plea agreement Wednesday.

A Princeton woman was sentenced Thursday to two years of supervised probation in relation to a hotel theft.
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Jan 7, 2021

Laura Jane Novotny Prendergast, 99, formerly of Princeton and Arlington, Illinois, died January 3, 2021, in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.
Laura was born on May 20, 1921, in Tama, Iowa, the youngest of seven children of Bertha Anna Schultz (Sulc) and Edward Novotny, a switchman for the Northwestern and Chicago Milwaukee Railroads junction. She married James Drummer Prendergast, son of Margaret and William Prendergast of rural LaMoille, Illinois, on August 21, 1948, at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Arlington.
Following graduation from Tama High School, Laura landed a job with the local newspaper, where a colleague encouraged her to apply for University of Iowa scholarship. She graduated with a BA in English in 1944, becoming the first in her family to achieve a college degree. During World War II, she worked in the secretarial pool at Consolidated Vultee Aircraft, which was producing B-29 bombers in Tucson, Arizona, and then for the US Navy at Terminal Island in Long Beach, California.
When she came to LaMoille to teach high school English and history, she was introduced to Jim Prendergast by his sister, Jane, the home economics teacher. After a wedding trip to the Black Hills in South Dakota, the couple settled briefly in Champaign-Urbana while Jim finished his degree. His jobs took them to Detroit, Michigan, and Quincy, Illinois, before landing in the new, planned Chicago suburb of Park Forest, where Laura taught elementary school.
In 1955, they moved to a farm on the outskirts of Arlington, gradually restoring the Victorian house built by the town’s founder, Michael Kennedy. Laura taught school in Malden and Van Orin, before earning a certificate in Library Science and becoming the school librarian in LaMoille. Moving to Princeton in 1982, the couple enjoyed a thriving enterprise renovating more than a dozen distinguished older homes.
Among her many interests, Laura especially loved books, music, gardening, and antiquing. She operated Village Antiques and Books for more than four decades, with shops at Dover Homestead Farms and several locations in Princeton; in later years, she re-focused the business to online bookselling. She sang in the choir at St. Patrick’s Church in Arlington, treated herself to a grand piano, and in her 70s adventurously took up playing violin. She researched several lines of family history and genealogy, compiled a volume of favorite recipes, and composed a vivid memoir, “Smalltown Girl: Memories of an Iowa Childhood.”
Laura is survived by two daughters, Dr. Susan P. Schoelwer (William) of Washington, DC, and Sheila A. Bloodgood (David) of Rancho Palos Verdes, CA; five grandchildren, Margaret Susan Schoelwer, San Francisco, CA; William James Schoelwer (Melissa), Charlottesville, VA; Jennifer Laura Schoelwer, Washington, DC; and Ryan James and Patrick Thomas Bloodgood, Rancho Palos Verdes; and three great-grandchildren, Vivian Jane, William Joseph, and James Henry Schoelwer, Charlottesville. She was preceded in death by her husband; parents; siblings Mildred Violet Burn, Joseph George Novotny, Marie Bertha Hanke, Margaret Estella Green, Elizabeth Novotny, and Grace Dorothy Hurt; two nephews and a niece.
The family is grateful to all who provided Laura with loving care and support, especially her faithful Princeton care team friends and the staff at Belmont Village in Rancho Palos Verdes.
Funeral Mass was held January 13, at St. John Fisher Catholic Church, Rancho Palos Verdes, with Rev. Bernard Kalu officiating; to access video see ttps://livestream.com/stjohnfisher/special.
Interment will be at Calvary Cemetery, Arlington, preceded by Mass at St. Louis Catholic Church, Princeton, on dates to be determined. Arrangements are being made by Lighthouse Memorials, Torrance, California, and Norberg Funeral Home, Princeton.
Memorials may be made to St. John Fisher Catholic Church, Rancho Palos Verdes CA, St. Louis Catholic Church, Princeton IL; Catholic Relief Services; or Seedlings Braille Books for Children
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