Drug sting wraps up in Macon County
District Attorney Ashley Hornsby Welch said a Macon County woman who was arrested as part of a multiple-person drug sting will serve at least 120 months in prison.
Pamela Nicole “Nikki” Wykle, 44, of Franklin, pleaded guilty Feb. 2 to two counts sell/deliver methamphetamine and trafficking methamphetamine.
In addition to active prison time, Senior Resident Superior Court Judge Bill Coward ordered her to pay a $50,000 fine. Wykle’s plea marks the successful conclusion to officials’ efforts to curb a large-scale methamphetamine operation that served as a drug pipeline from Atlanta, Georgia into Western North Carolina.
A fire that devastated a school in Jo Daviess County 65 years ago caused students to take classes in church basements, a furniture store and a local physicianâs living room.
The fire that destroyed the school in Stockton, Ill., burned for 12 hours and sent school officials scrambling to find space to hold classes for elementary, middle and high school students.
Construction of new school buildings to replace the burned structures was completed in fall 1956.
Here is how the Telegraph Herald reported on the fire and its aftermath in its Dec. 5, 1955, edition.
FIRE DESTROYS STOCKTON SCHOOL
School officials worked Monday to make arrangements for emergency classrooms for Stockton grade and high school pupils left school-less by Sundayâs fire, the worst in the townâs history.