Busy comfort zone: Ochs balances Trimpe, EA-WR duties and waits
Ochs balances Trimpe,EA-WR duties and waits
Pete Hayes, phayes@thetelegraph.com
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Jeff Ochs talks with his CM team last season during his tenure as interim girls basketball coach at Civic Memorial. Ochs, the AD at Trimpe Middle School, is now in his first season as head coach of the EA-WR girls basketball team. Even though he’s been busy handling both positions, he’s hoping the Region 4 mitigation level drops to Phase 4 so that all “his” teams can begin playing.Greg Shashack file | The TelegraphShow MoreShow Less
A transgender inmate convicted of “violent crimes” has reached an undisclosed settlement with the Illinois Department of Corrections in a lawsuit alleging she should have been transferred to a female prison.
District Judge Nancy Rosenstengel entered an order last month stating that the action is settled in its entirety. The parties requested additional time to finalize settlement documents, so she ordered the case to be dismissed with prejudice in 120 days.
The parties first engaged in a settlement conference on Nov. 18 via zoom before Magistrate Judge Mark Beatty. Plaintiff Tay Tay appeared with attorneys Sheila Bedi and Vanessa Del Valle. Attorneys Carla Tolbert and Melissa Jennings appeared on behalf of the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC). The case did not settle at that time and a second settlement conference was ordered.
Sowle
BENTON – Senior U.S. District Judge Phil Gilbert appointed attorney Britt Sowle of Edwardsville to find out whether prisoner Robert Christopher Adams might have a viable injury claim against DuPont.
Sowle, who entered his appearance on Jan. 14, must first achieve service of a suit Adams wanted to serve on DuPont but couldn’t.
Sowle must also obtain an information sheet Adams requested.
“All this should be accomplished by February 19, 2021,” Gilbert wrote.
Adams signed a complaint at Western Illinois prison in Mount Sterling in June and mailed it to district court.
He sought $75 million in compensatory and punitive damages and all medical expenses for colitis.
EA-WR s Beatty: Using guidelines safer than out-of-state tourneys
Beatty: Using guidelinessafer than club tourneys
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EA-WR boys basketball coach Steve Flowers watches from in front of his team’s bench. EA-WR athletic director Mark Beatty said that guidelines and recommendations issued by the IHSA last fall would make playing safer than Illinois-based athletes playing in club tournaments in other states. Show MoreShow Less
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EA-WR’s Kayla Brantley (20) puts up a shot in the lane after getting past Salem’s Lacey Jones last season. EA-WR and all schools in Illinois have been in a ‘pause’ with no games or practices, since November. Show MoreShow Less